User charges for all customers shall be billed on a monthly
basis.
User charges shall be included as separate items on the regular
monthly statement for water services or as otherwise determined by
the approving authority. User charges shall be payable at the office
of the approving authority or at any other officially designated location
at the same time that the water statements become due, and payments
for water service shall not be accepted without full payment of the
user charges.
Charges levied in accordance with this Part 1 shall be a debt
due to the approving authority. If the debt is not paid within 20
days after it is due and payable, it shall be deemed delinquent. There
shall be an added penalty of 3% of the amount of the monthly bill,
a minimum of $0.50. Charges and penalties shall constitute a lien
upon the property services and be recorded on the approving authority's
tax roll. Change of ownership or occupancy of premises found delinquent
shall not be cause for reducing or eliminating these penalties.
Each user shall be notified annually, in conjunction with a
regular bill, of the rate schedule attributable to wastewater treatment
services, including an explanation of the charges.
The property owner is held responsible for all bills on premises
that he owns. All bills and notices of any nature, relative to the
sewer service, will be addressed to the owner and/or occupant and
delivered to the addressee by first-class mail.
Every reasonable care will be exercised in the proper delivery
of bills. Failure to receive a bill, however, shall not relieve any
person of the responsibility for payment of user charges within the
prescribed period, nor exempt any person from any penalty imposed
for delinquency in the payment thereof.
On October 15 in each year, notice shall be given to the owner
or occupant of all lots or parcels of real estate to which service
has been furnished prior to September 15 and payment for which is
owing and in arrears at the time of given such notice. The approving
authority shall furnish the Village Clerk-Treasurer with a list of
all such lots or parcels of real estate, and the notice shall be given
by the approving authority. Such notice shall be in writing and shall
state the amount of such arrears, including any penalty assessed pursuant
to the rules of such approving authority; that unless the same is
paid by November 1, the same will be levied as a tax against the lot
or parcel of real estate to which service was furnished and for which
payment is delinquent as above specified. Such notice may be served
by delivery to either such owner or occupant personally, or by letter
addressed to such owner or occupant at the post office address of
such lot or parcel of real estate. Each such delinquent amount, including
such penalty, shall thereupon become a lien upon the lot or parcel
of real estate to which the service was furnished and payment for
which is delinquent. All proceedings in relation to the collection
of general property taxes and to the return and sale of property for
delinquent taxes shall apply to said tax if the same is not paid within
the time required by law for payment of taxes upon real estate.