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CITY OF NEW BUFFALO CODE OF ORDINANCES Section 19-7. Applicability of rates, etc. Every person, firm or corporation, whether private, public or municipal, who or which are serviced by the City department or connected to the water mains of the City shall pay for such service. The rates and fees shall be set from time to time by resolution of the City Council as they deem necessary and proper. Section 19-8. Tap-in and connection charges. There is hereby established a tap-in and connection charge for each user requesting a connection to the City water mains. The amount of the tap-in and connection charges shall be set by resolution of the City Council. Section 19-9. Ready-to-serve charge. The owner of each building or parcel of real estate which is connected to the water mains of the City with a service connection ready to be used shall pay to the City a ready-to-serve charge for each such service connection to such water mains, whether or not water is turned on in such connection. The amount of the ready-to-serve charge shall be set by resolution of the City Council. This section shall not apply in the case of demolished buildings where the service connection is not ready to be used. Section 19-10. Metered rates generally. Water shall be metered on each service connection as soon as the water connection is installed and turned on. Section 19-11. Water furnished to City - Generally. The City shall pay out of the appropriate general funds of the City a reasonable cost for the value of the water furnished to the City on the basis of the schedule of rates adopted by the City Council. Section 19-12. Same - Fire hydrant charges. The City shall pay out of its general fund to the Water Department of the City a sum per month per hydrant for each fire hydrant within the City serviced by the Water Department. Said sum shall be set by resolution of the City Council, and may be discontinued for any time period at the Council's discretion. Section 19-13. Bills and billing generally; penalty for late payment. [Ord. 176, 4/15/2008] Bills for water service provided for by this Chapter shall be sent to each person charged therefor at a regular date set from time to time by resolution of the City Council, except as provided in Section 19-10. All such bills shall become due and payable at a regular date set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. Ten percent (10%) of each bill shall be added thereto on each water service bill or ready-to-serve charge which is not paid before a date set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. Section 19-14. Billing duty for municipal water service. [Ord. 176, 4/15/2008] It is hereby made the duty of the City Manager to direct the City Clerk and/ or City Treasurer to render bills for municipal water service and all other charges in connection therewith and to collect all monies due therefrom. The City Manager shall be responsible for directing the City Clerk and/ or City Treasurer to notify between the fifteenth day of April, 2008, and the fifteenth day of June, 2008, the owners of property which have a tenant responsible for a municipal water service and/ or sewer service that when said tenant discontinues use of said services, or no later Chapter 19- WATER 19-2
CITY OF NEW BUFFALO CODE OF ORDINANCES than the fifteenth day of April, 2009, they shall be transferred to the property owner who shall be responsible from that point forward. Section 19-15. Shutting off water in event of nonpayment; collection procedures generally; charges a lien, etc.; shutting-off and turning-on charges. [Ord. 176, 4/15/2008] The payment of charges for water service or ready-to-serve charges may be enforced by shutting off the use's supply or by an action of assumption instituted in the name of the City against such user or person connected to the City water mains. All delinquent sums due the City for water service charges or ready-to-serve charges shall become a lien against the property served by the City water system and the City Council shall have power to order such delinquent charges to be spread on the City tax roll as a charge against the several properties so delinquent, to be collected as part of the next City tax thereon. The remedies provided in this section for enforcing the payment of water charges are hereby declared to be cumulative, and not alternative, and the use of one (1) remedy shall not constitute a bar to the use of any other remedy. Whenever it becomes necessary to shut off the water service for any reason, a charge will be made to such delinquent user for shutting off and for turning on such water supply. Section 19-16. Service outside City. Whenever the City municipal water system supplies water to a user beyond the corporate limits of the City, such user shall pay for such water one and one-half (1 1/2) times the prevailing water rates. Section 19-17. Revision of rates and charges. All of the rates and charges for water service fixed by this Chapter shall be revised by resolution from time to time as may be necessary by the City Council to produce the required amount of revenue to maintain and repair the water system of the City and discharge the bonded indebtedness of such system. Section 19-18. Tampering with water system prohibited. [Ord. 195, 5/31/2012] No person, except authorized employees of the Water Department, Fire Department, or Street Department, and then only in the legitimate discharge of their duties, shall open or close any main valve or fire hydrant, or remove the cover for any valve or hydrant, nor shall any person interfere with or damage in any manner any building, machine, pipe, or fixture of the Water Department. The use of fire hydrants as a source of water supply, except by employees as above mentioned, is strictly prohibited, unless written permission is obtained from the Water Department, and this applies to all hydrants, municipally or privately owned, within or outside of the corporate limits of the City, supplied with water through the City mains. Chapter 19- WATER 19-3
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