A. Payment for water service for any property shall become due and payable on the fifteenth day of the month following the month within which the service was rendered. If any amount becomes delinquent for more than thirty (30) days, the City Clerk shall add a late fee on the delinquent amount of fifteen dollars ($15.00) and give notice in writing to the owner or owner's agent as officially listed in the City records, or the best address available to the Clerk, of such delinquency, advising that the water service shall be discontinued at the expiration of ten (10) days thereafter unless the account is paid in full. Such notice shall indicate that the delinquent user may contact the City Clerk or other responsible City official at City Hall during business hours to make arrangements to bring the account current.

B. In the event the City should proceed to terminate water service to any property which has failed to bring its account current after mailing of written notice, the employee of the City dispatched to disconnect the water service shall make a reasonable effort to inform the user that water service is being terminated. The City employee may not accept payment of the delinquent amount from the user, but the employee shall not terminate water service to the property until the user has been afforded an opportunity of not less than thirty (30) minutes in length to reach City Hall and arrange to bring the account current. [Ord. 2023-04 § 1, June 2023; Ord. 1997-04, June 1997.]