§ 28-249. Service discontinuance for delinquent payments.

(a)

If the amount of the department'S monthly water and/or sanitary sewer bill shall not be paid by the date of the next monthly billing, the department may, with written notice to the customer on the monthly bill, discontinue furnishing water to such premises and proceed forthwith to recover the amount of water and/or sanitary sewer service charges, both current and past-due, in such lawful manner as may be required. No partial payments will be accepted without prior approval.

(b)

The department shall have the right to refuse service to any premises in cases where the contracting party of such premises has an unpaid water and/or sanitary sewer bill under his contract or an unpaid bill for services or for material or labor rendered or expended by the department, until such time as the bill is paid.

(c)

The department shall have the right to transfer a delinquent water bill at one address to the account of the same consumer at another address, provided the consumer is receiving service at the latter address, and shall have the right to discontinue service at the latter address for nonpayment of the transferred bill, regardless of the fact that the bills for the latter address are being paid. The department also shall have the right to require payment of the delinquent bill for a prior address prior to connecting service for that same consumer at a new address.

(d)

Where sanitary sewer charges are not paid in accordance with provisions outlined herein and in those instances where the owner has his own private water supply, the department shall have a right to turn off or disconnect such water supply to the plumbing system and the owner shall have no right to re-connect his own private water supply until the sanitary sewer charges have been paid in full. Any violation of this provision by reconnecting his private water supply, until such sanitary sewer charges are paid in full, shall be considered a violation of this division and subject to the penalties hereinafter provided.

(e)

The department shall have the right to require cash payments from those customers who have submitted insufficient checks for payment and/or had payment through electronic fund transfer (EFT) rejected by the bank.

(Ord. No. 2005-19, § 14, 10-18-05)