All charges for sewerage service shall be due to the city clerk-treasurer on or before the tenth day of the month succeeding the date the bill was rendered. Sewerage bill shall be presented monthly for sewerage service delivered in the preceding month. Water service shall be suspended from any property for which the sewerage service charge remains unpaid by the tenth day of the next succeeding month. The clerk-treasurer shall notify the property owner or consumer in the next succeeding month following the initial sewerage service charge billing of the fact that payment has not been received. In the event of failure to pay the one-month delinquent payment, together with the current sewerage service charge appearing upon the bill notifying the property owner or consumer of the nonpayment, the water service shall be disconnected.

In the event of the disconnection of the water service for sewerage service delinquencies, the property owner or consumer shall be charged twenty dollars for the service of disconnecting the water service. The property owner or consumer shall be charged twenty dollars for the service of reconnecting the water service. Service to any property disconnected for delinquencies shall not be reinstated until all delinquencies, disconnection charges, and reconnection charges have been paid to the clerk-treasurer. (Ord. 1394,, 1998.)