[1961 Code, § 23B.21; Ord. 920]
Any service user who is 62 years of age or older and is head of the household shall be eligible for an exemption from the fees imposed by this chapter on service supplied the service user's residential living quarters. The provisions of this exemption shall also apply to any individual who meets the criterion or disability, as established by the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (Title XLII of the Social Security Act, as amended) without regard to the age of the disabled individual.
[1961 Code, § 23B.23; Ord. 920]
Applications shall be verified by declaration under penalty of perjury and shall contain information as may be required by the Fee Administrator.
[1961 Code, § 23b.24; Ord. 920]
The Fee Administrator shall review each application and shall certify the service user as exempt if the eligibility requirements of § 53.45 are met. If a service user is exempt under the eligibility requirements of § 53.45 and the service user is receiving service from a service supplier through a master meter, upon application and approval, the Fee Administrator shall refund the eligible service user as provided in § 53.10. However, no exemption shall be granted with respect to any fee imposed by this chapter which is or has been paid by a public agency or where the service user received funds from a public agency specifically for the payment of the fee.
[1961 Code, § 23B.25; Ord. 920]
If a service user is certified as exempt, the Fee Administrator shall promptly notify the service user's service suppliers, stating the name of the service user, the address to which exempt service is being supplied, the account number, if any, and such other information as may be necessary for the service supplier to remove the exempt service user from its fee billing procedure.
[1961 Code, § 23B.26; Ord. 920]
Upon receipt of the notice referred to in § 53.49, the service supplier shall, within 60 days, discontinue billing the service user for fees imposed by this chapter, except as otherwise provided in § 53.51.
[1961 Code, § 23B.27; Ord. 920]
Fees billed by the service supplier to the service user from its fee billing procedure shall be collected from the service user and the service user shall pay these fees to the service supplier. Fees billed to and paid by the service user between the time the application for redemption is filed and the service supplier removes the service user from its billing procedure will not be refunded to the service user.
[1961 Code, § 23B.28; Ord. 920]
Exemptions certified by the Fee Administrator shall continue as long as the facts supporting the qualification for exemption shall exist; provided, the exemption shall automatically terminate with any change in the service address or residence of the exempt individual and provided, further, that the individual may nevertheless apply for a new exemption with each change of address of residence.
[1961 Code, § 23B.29; Ord. 920]
(A) 
Any service user who has been exempted under this chapter shall notify the collector within ten days of any change in fact or circumstance which might disqualify the individual from receiving the exemption. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to knowingly receive the benefits of the exemption provided by this chapter when the basis for that exemption does not exist or ceases to exist.
(B) 
Any service supplier who determines, by any means, that a new or nonexempt service user is receiving service through a meter or connection exempt by virtue of an exemption issued to a previous user or exempt user of the same meter or connection shall immediately notify the Fee Administrator of that fact and the Fee Administrator shall conduct an investigation to ascertain whether or not the provisions of this chapter have been complied with and, where appropriate, order the service supplier to commence collecting the fee from the nonexempt service user.
[1961 Code, § 23B.30; Ord. 920]
The Fee Administrator shall have the power and right to demand evidence of continued eligibility of a service user for exemption under the provisions of this section.
(A) 
The evidence may include, but need not be limited to, copies of business records, letters or statements from the Social Security Administration and state, county, city and private pension administrators or unemployment and welfare agencies and other evidence concerning the service user or other members of his or her household as may tend to prove or disprove that eligibility.
(B) 
Failure to provide that evidence as is within the control of a service user to so provide, either directly by him or by his or her consent or the consent of a member of his or her household when the evidence is requested of the service user, in writing by the Fee Administrator, shall be grounds for the immediate discontinuance of the service user's eligibility for exemption under the provisions of this chapter.
(C) 
Evidence provided to the Fee Administrator, at his or her request or voluntarily provided by the service user without the Fee Administrator's request, may not be used against the service user as evidence of violation of the provisions of this chapter. The evidence may only be used as grounds for termination of the exemption herein provided.