Whenever payment on any account owing to the Township is made by check or other written instrument which is subsequently returned for insufficient funds, the Chief Financial Officer or his or her designee may impose a service charge as provided in Chapter
196, Article
I, for each such returned check or written instrument.
Whenever an account owing to a municipality
is for a tax or special assessment, the service charge authorized
by this chapter shall be included on whatever list of delinquent accounts
is prepared for the enforcement of the lien.
The service charge authorized by this chapter
shall be collected in the same manner prescribed by law for the collection
of the account for which the check or other written instrument was
tendered.
The Chief Financial Officer or his or her designee
may require that payment of any account owing to the Township be made
by cash or by certified or cashier's check by any person, corporation
or other entity that has previously had a check or other written instrument
returned to the Township because of insufficient funds.