[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.190, 6-11-2012]
The quantity of water used upon any premises furnished with sewerage services by the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the City shall be measured by the water meter or meters serving the premises. The Superintendent of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the City or such other representative of the City as the Board of Aldermen may designate shall have access to the public and business premises of each customer at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting and testing said water meter or meters and reading the records thereof.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.200, 6-11-2012]
If any user of water shall use more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons of water in any month, and if as established by records kept and maintained by such user and open for inspection by the City's representative more than one-half (1/2) of the water so used by said customer was not discharged into the sewerage system of the City, then the charge hereinbefore specified in Section 710.200 hereof made to said customer for the use and services of the sewerage system of the City shall be based on the amount of water furnished said customer during said month less the amount of such water which was not discharged into the sewerage system of the City. Such water meter as may be necessary to measure the amount of water which is not discharged into the City's sewerage system shall be paid for and installed by the customer.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.210, 6-11-2012]
No sewerage services shall be furnished or rendered free of charge to any person, firm or corporation.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.230, 6-11-2012]
It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to tamper with any sewer line or to make any connection with the sewerage system of the City without written permission from the City or to reconnect water services when such services have been discontinued for non-payment of a bill for sewerage services, unless such bill for sewerage services has been paid in full.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.240, 6-11-2012]
A. 
In accordance with Section 644.052(10), RSMo., the City shall collect for the State of Missouri an annual service connection fee from each customer of the City's public sewer system. For purposes of establishing an appropriate billing procedure and schedule, the City shall follow the following guidelines, to wit:
1. 
The service connection fee required by State Statutes shall be included on each customer's bill during the month of July of each year beginning in July 2012.
2. 
The billing clerk shall segregate such service connection fee and remit to the State of Missouri ninety-five percent (95%) of such service connection fees annually no later than September 1 of each year, beginning September 1, 2012.
3. 
The billing clerk shall remit the remaining five percent (5%) of the service connection fees to the appropriate fund of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, as and for the allowed administrative fee to offset the City's costs in billing and collecting these fees for the State of Missouri.