[Ord. No. 463 §1, 1-18-1962; Ord. No. 953 §1, 6-24-1985; Ord. No. 1182 §1, 5-4-1994; Ord. No. 1287 §1, 7-14-1998; Ord. No. 1399 §1, 6-12-2003; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009; Ord. No. 1878 §1, 7-9-2012; Ord. No. 1911 §1, 8-26-2013; Ord. No. 2018 §1, 7-11-2016]
A. 
The monthly rates required and which shall be charged and collected by the City of Hermann for water service furnished to customers by the City's waterworks system shall be as follows:
1. 
Residential, commercial and industrial rate:
a. 
For the first two thousand (2,000) gallons or fraction thereof, a minimum charge of fifteen dollars ninety cents ($15.90);
b. 
For the next fourteen thousand gallons (14,000) gallons, a charge of seven dollars eighty cents ($7.80) per one thousand (1,000) gallons or fraction thereof;
c. 
For all usage in excess of sixteen thousand (16,000) gallons, a charge of two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) per one thousand (1,000) gallons or fraction thereof.
[Ord. No. 463 §1, 1-18-1962; Ord. No. 953 §1, 6-24-1985; Ord. No. 990 §1, 8-11-1986; Ord. No. 1182 §1, 5-4-1994; Ord. No. 1252 §1, 3-10-1997; Ord. No. 1287 §1, 7-14-1998; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009; Ord. No. 1814 §1, 3-8-2010; Ord. No. 1842 §1, 5-9-2011; Ord. No. 1867 §1, 4-9-2012]
A. 
Monthly rates required and which shall be charged and collected by the City of Hermann for sewerage service shall be based upon the quantity of water used at the premises so served by the sewerage system and shall be measured by the water meter or meters installed on the premises so served; and, except as provided in Subsection (C) of this Section, such charge shall consist of a twenty-eight dollar ($28.00) service availability charge plus $.0052 for every gallon of water consumed.
[Ord. No. 2021 §1, 8-8-2016; Ord. No. 2147, 6-24-2019; Ord. No. 2191, 5-26-2020; Ord. No. 2244, 6-28-2021; Ord. No. 2296, 6-27-2022; Ord. No. 2352, 6-26-2023]
B. 
Where in the judgment of the Board of Aldermen, special conditions affecting the property of any person served by the City's sewer system shall exist to the extent that the charges for sewer service specified herein will result in inequitable or unfair charges for either said City or to such persons served, the Board may, based upon the facts and circumstances of each individual case, enter into a special contract for sewer service or levy a special service charge in line with the charges hereinbefore set forth.
C. 
When any customer has more than one (1) water meter installed on premises having a single street address and customer billing address and at least one (1) of such meters is dedicated exclusively to measuring quantities of water delivered to an outdoor faucet or similar discharge point whereby the water so delivered and discharged may not under any circumstances enter the City sanitary sewer system, then such charge shall not include the charge made for water and water service delivered through such meter or meters to the dedicated non-sewered uses on said premises.
[Ord. No. 990 §2, 8-11-1986; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009]
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Hermann hereby finds and determines that the rates, fees and charges for the use of the City's waterworks system and the City's sewerage system necessary and adequate to meet the requirements of Sections 250.010 to 250.250, inclusive, RSMo., are as hereinabove specified.
[Ord. No. 463 §4, 1-18-1962; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009]
All water meters shall be read and bills for water and sewerage service shall be rendered monthly as such services accrue. The City Collector or other officer or representative of the City designated to prepare and render bills for water and sewerage services shall calculate monthly the amount due for each service and shall render monthly to each customer a bill which provides the charges for water services and sewerage services. All such bills shall be due and payable at the office of the City Collector during the regular hours of business from and after the date of the rendition thereof.
[Ord. No. 586 §§4, 5, 8, 11-10-1969; Ord. No. 750 §1, 9-25-1978; Ord. No. 1191 §1, 9-6-1994; Ord. No. 1239 §1, 8-26-1996; Ord. No. 1811 §1, 2-22-2010]
A. 
Definition of Delinquent Account. All accounts shall be considered delinquent after the fifteenth (15th) day of the month immediately following the billing, unless the fifteenth (15th) falls upon a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday observed by the City, in which event the account shall become delinquent after the next following business day of the City.
B. 
Definition of Good Standing. Every person who has promptly paid his bill by the fifteenth (15th) day of each month and has not been delinquent for more than three (3) consecutive billing periods and has not had service terminated because of delinquent payment during the period of two (2) years prior to application for refund.
C. 
Delinquent Accounts to Pay Penalty. All delinquent accounts will be charged and the customer shall pay a ten percent (10%) penalty on the total amount. If the bill and penalty are not paid by the twentieth (20th) day of the month, the City Collector shall notify the City Administrator that the account of a user is delinquent and the Water Department shall terminate the service.
D. 
Delinquent Accounts to Pay Interest. All delinquent accounts will be charged and the customer shall pay simple interest on the unpaid portion of the account at the rate of one and one-half percent (1½%) per month commencing thirty (30) days after the due date of the account and continuing until the account is paid in full.
[Ord. No. 751 §2, 9-25-1978; Ord. No. 1376 §1, 3-11-2002]
If the bill and penalty are not paid in full by the twentieth (20th) day of the month, the City Collector shall notify the City Administrator that the account of a customer is delinquent and the sewer service shall be terminated. Service shall not be re-connected until all past due bills are paid in full, together with a re-connection charge of ten dollars ($10.00). All such sums shall be paid in cash or by a cashier's check, certified check, or money order. No personal checks will be accepted for restoration of service after termination because of delinquency or violation by the user or customer of other rules provided in this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 1349 §1, 2-12-2001; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009]
A. 
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 644.052, RSMo., there is hereby imposed upon each customer an annual fee for each water service connection in the following amounts:
[Ord. No. 2011 §1, 6-13-2016]
1. 
Eighty cents ($0.80) per residential customer;
2. 
Three dollars ($3.00) per water service connection for all other customers with water service connections of less than or equal to one (1) inch, excluding taps for fire suppression and irrigation systems;
3. 
Eleven dollars ($11.00) per water service connection for all other customers with water service connections of more than one (1) inch but less than or equal to four (4) inches, excluding taps for fire suppression and irrigation systems; and
4. 
Twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) per water service connection for all other customers with water service connections of more than four (4) inches, excluding taps for fire suppression and irrigation systems.
B. 
Customers served by multiple water service connections shall pay such fee based on the above rates for each water service connection, except that no single facility served by multiple connections shall pay more than a total of seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per year.
C. 
Fees imposed pursuant to this Section and said Statute shall be payable by each customer on or before the due date specified on the utility billing statement issued by the City of Hermann to such customer on June first (1st) or on the business day closest to said date, of each year, and if not paid by such due date, the account shall be deemed delinquent. Said annual fee shall be enumerated separately from all other charges set forth on said monthly utility billing statement. Such fees shall be State fees and shall be transferred to the Director of the Department of Revenue on or before the date provided by State law, less the portion thereof authorized by said Statute to be retained by the City as reimbursement of billing and collection expenses.
D. 
The imposition and collection of the annual fee authorized in this Section shall be suspended or shall expire, as may be applicable, pursuant to the provisions of Section 644.054.1, RSMo.
[Ord. No. 463 §8, 1-18-1962]
The occupant and user of the premises receiving water and sewerage services, or either of them, and the owner of said premises shall be jointly and severally liable to pay for such services rendered on said premises. The City shall have power to sue the occupant or the owner, or both, of such real estate in a civil action to receive any sums due for such services, plus a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the Court.
[Ord. No. 463 §9, 1-18-1962; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009]
Water service shall be supplied only through water meters installed and meeting the City's specifications, and only one (1) connection shall be permitted to each water meter. No free water service or sewerage service shall be furnished to any premises, or the owner or occupant thereof, except to the City itself, and in the event that the revenues derived by the City from its waterworks or sewerage system shall at any time prove insufficient to pay the cost of maintenance and operation thereof and to pay the interest on and principal of waterworks or sewerage system revenue bonds of the City issued to construct, extend or improve such system or any part thereof and to establish and maintain reasonable reserves as provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds, then the City will thereafter pay a fair and reasonable charge for all water and sewerage services, or water service, or sewerage service, furnished by the City of any of its departments by the waterworks or sewerage system, and such payments will continue so long as the same may be necessary in order to prevent any default in the payment of the interest on or principal of the waterworks or sewerage system revenue bonds of the City or while any such default shall exist.
[Ord. No. 463 §10, 1-18-1962; Ord. No. 1790 §2, 6-22-2009]
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to tamper with any water main, water meter or sewer line, or to make any connection to the waterworks or sewerage systems of the City without written permission from the City, or to re-connect service when service has been discontinued for non-payment of a bill for service until such bill, including the re-connection charge, has been paid in full.