Water bills for water consumed shall be rendered to the owner or occupant of premises quarterly.
A. 
In the event that a meter is inaccessible for any reason, the owner or occupant shall be responsible for entering the meter reading upon a form provided by the Water Department or water operations company and for returning the same to the Water Department within five days.
B. 
If the form is not received by the Water Department within five days or if a reading is not phoned to the water operations company, the consumer shall be billed using an estimate based upon the water consumed during a similar quarter of the previous year.
C. 
It is the owner's or occupant's responsibility to ensure that access is granted for actual reading by the Water Department or water operations company at least once per year.
D. 
In the event that the period between actual readings exceeds one year, a penalty of $100 will be assessed, and the consumer will be notified that water service will be terminated until arrangements can be made for access to the water meter. The consumer will be billed for discontinuance and restoration of service if such action becomes necessary.
[Amended 9-19-2006 by Ord. No. 25-06]
A. 
Bills rendered shall be due within 30 days from the billing date.
(1) 
An overdue bill will be assessed a penalty fee with interest, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 54:4-7, calculated at the rate of 8% per annum on the first $1,500 of the delinquency and 18% per annum on any amount in excess of $1,500, to be calculated from the date the water bill was due and payable until the date that actual payment to the utility collector is made. An additional penalty of 6% per annum shall be assessed upon any amount in excess of $10,000 that remains due and payable as of December 31 of any calendar year.
(2) 
All consumers whose bills are unpaid within 90 days of the original billing shall have their water service terminated. Such service shall be restored only upon payment in full of all water charges, including the prescribed penalty charge.
(3) 
Any unpaid water charges shall be a lien upon the land of the owner after the due date. When unpaid water charges remain in arrears on April 1 in the calendar year following the calendar year when the same becomes due, the Borough Tax Collector shall enforce the lien in accordance with the Tax Sale Law of the State of New Jersey.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 54:5-1 et seq.
B. 
All charges are payable to the Water Department and/or water operations company by mail or in person at the Treasurer's office.
(1) 
No persons are authorized to accept or give a receipt for money due the Water Department except the Borough Treasurer or its duly designated assistants.
(2) 
Personal payments may be deposited, without liability to the Borough, in the Borough’s payment drop box that is located at the Municipal Building 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A. 
Except in the case of the initial installation of water service and meter, no new consumer shall be served with water unless an application is made to the Water Department by the consumer. Such application shall be accompanied by payment of a turn-on fee as set forth in § 244-41G. Consumers changing their places of residence within the Borough shall also be required to execute an application with the Department.
B. 
Water may be shut off by the Department on receipt of a written request by a consumer to the Water Department. A shutoff and turn-on charge as set forth in § 244-41G, however, shall be made for each turning off and each restoration of the service.
C. 
If a house is vacant, no deduction from the minimum charge as set forth in § 244-40 shall be made as long as the curb stop shall remain open.
A. 
The consumer shall promptly report in writing any meter thought to be defective or out of order.
B. 
The Water Department and/or the water operations company will comply with a request to test any meter. Such test shall comply with standards of the American Water Works Association and determine whether the meter is defective.
C. 
Should such test disclose that the meter is not defective or out of order, the Department shall charge the fee set forth in § 244-41. Meters found to register over 3% fast during the course of such test shall be replaced or repaired by the Water Department or water operations company at its expense.
D. 
Water charges for the quarter in which the meter is found to register fast shall be based on the previous quarter and rendered as per § 244-36.
[Amended 4-28-1998 by Ord. No. 5-98].
Fees for consumption, fire service and other services rendered by the Water Department shall be set by resolution of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Florham Park.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 244-41, Fees for services and 244-42, Fees for fire service, were repealed 4-28-1998 by Ord. No. 5-98. See now § 244-40.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 1-00]
Residential and commercial users supplied through arrangements with other water utilities will be billed as stated in a resolution of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Florham Park.