[Ord. 491, 9/13/1982, § 1; as amended by Ord. 741,
12/30/2002, § 1; and by Ord. 744, 6/9/2003, § 7]
The Borough of Jefferson Hills, in an endeavor to collect sums
of money due it for delinquent sewage treatment services, does hereby
adopt the following policy and guidelines for collection procedures:
A.
All sewage treatment service accounts in areas for a period of 60
days or more from billing shall be deemed the subject matter of these
adopted collection procedures.
B.
Upon determination that a delinquency exists within the terms of
this Part, the Borough or its agent shall send a letter to the delinquent
account demanding payment of all delinquencies forthwith and, in the
absence of payment in full as requested, shall solicit the delinquent
consumer or consumers to appear before the designated sewage collection
agent for the Borough of Jefferson Hills for the purpose of discussing
the delinquency and hopefully arriving at an equitable basis for payment
of the delinquency with the objective of making the account current.
C.
The agent of the Borough of Jefferson Hills authorized to discuss
payment arrangements on a delinquent account shall reduce to writing
the arrangements so recommended for the individual consumer which
shall be operative and binding upon the Borough of Jefferson Hills'
Sewer System Manager within 30 days of the date of tender of all such
written recommendations by the agent of the Borough of Jefferson Hills.
It shall be the duty of the agent to transmit all such arrangements
to the Borough of Jefferson Hills' Sewer System Manager within
five days of any such written arrangement.
D.
Failure to reject as above set forth by the Borough of Jefferson
Hills' Sewer Manager shall be regarded as an acceptance of the
recommended arrangement and in each instance the Borough of Jefferson
Hills shall forego exercising its right to have the consumer's
water supply terminated so long as the consumer faithfully maintains
the arrangements arrived at.
E.
In the event the consumer shall fail to respond to the direction
to either pay the account in full or enter into an arrangement for
payment as agreed to by the agent and the consumer, the Borough of
Jefferson Hills' Sewer System Manager is authorized to request
of the Pennsylvania American Water Company a termination of the said
consumer's water service, after proper notice to the consumer
in accordance with the terms of the stated agreement attached hereto
as Exhibit "A."
F.
In each instance, the requirements of the water service termination
agreement by the Borough of Jefferson Hills and the Pennsylvania American
Water Company shall be abided by and all costs and procedures provided
for therein shall be complied with by the Borough of Jefferson Hills
as the same may pertain.
G.
All procedural costs required to implement this Part and those that
may be required by the said water service termination agreement shall
be advanced by the Borough of Jefferson Hills from sewage revenues,
if possible, and when collected from the consumer after reinstatement
of sewage service shall be refundable to the Borough of Jefferson
Hills from first revenues received from the consumer.
H.
It is the policy of the Borough of Jefferson Hills that in situations
warranting special attention that payment arrangements may be recommended
by the agent even after water service has been terminated provided
all procedural costs have been paid by the consumer and a bona fide
arrangement has been made with a substantial payment made on the delinquency.
However, it shall be conclusively determined that the payment agreement
is violated when a consumer fails to make agreed installment payments
or fails to make payment in full of current bills.
I.
The proper officers of the Borough of Jefferson Hills are hereby
authorized and directed to execute the agreement attached hereto as
Exhibit "A," with the Pennsylvania American Water Company.
J.
Should it become necessary or advisable to amend the said agreement
with the Pennsylvania American Water Company, Council of the Borough
of Jefferson Hills is hereby authorized to do so by appropriate resolution.
K.
This Part shall become effective as soon as it is may be implemented.
