Ordinance No. 0565 08-05-1974L
ORDINANCE N0. 565
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 402 OF THE FRIDLEY CITY CODE CONCERNING
METER READING AND PAYMENT FOR SERVICES AND DISCONTINUANCE OF SERUICE,
SAID AMENDMENTS WILL ADD A PENALTY FOR NONPAYMENT OF BILLS AND AMENDS
THE CHARGE FOR RESTORATION OF SERVICE
The Council of the City of Fridley do ordain as follows:
SECTIOfJS 402.07, 402.071, and 402.072 of the Fridley City Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
SECTIOIV 402.07 Meter Reading and Payment for Services
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The City may provide a system of water meter reading by post card, meterman or any
other method deemed suitable to the purpose by the Council. The City may also
establish billing areas or districts and provide for the readings of ineters and
billing of charges by calendar quarters or monthly quarters, or such periodic
intervals as the Council shall determine suitable and necessary from ±ime to time
to the needs of the City. In the case of a post-card meter reading, each consumer
sha11 mail or return the meter card on or before the last day of the billing
period.
Each consumer shall be assessed a fifty (50) cent penalty for any card not returned
on the due date. Such penalty and any use charges (based on an estimate of the water
consumed) may be included on the next billing and thereafter until paid.
The water rate charges shall be considered net charges and shall be the charges
payable before the last day of the month or billin9 period in which the billings
are sent out.
Payments not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the bill will be assessed
a ten (10) percent penalty.
SECTION 402.071 Discontinuance of Service
The City reserves the right to discontinue service to any customer of the water and �
sewer system without notice when necessary for repairs, additional connection or
reconnection or for non-payment of charges or bills or for disregard of any rules ---
or regulations in connection with the use or operation of said system. Whenever
any service has 6een disconti,nued for non-payment of charges or bills or for dis-
regard of any rules or regulations, it shall not be resumed, except upon payment
of the charges of bills accrued together with compliance with the rules or regulations
previously violated and payment to the City of a restoration fee of the sum of $5,00
(before 4:30 p.m. weekdays) and $10.00 at all other times.
SECTION 402.072 Lien
In the event a water or sewer bill is unpaid at the end of the calendar quarter or
the billing period under which the billing is sent out, the bill shall be considered
delinquent and the service may be discontinued as provided in 402.071 above and the
City Council may cause the charges noted in such billing to become a lien against
the property served by certifying to the County the amount of said delinquent bill
in accordance with Sections 442.15 and 443.15 ofi the Statutes of the State of Minnesota.
A penalty of ten (10) percent will be assessed to all amounts certified to the County
for collection. (Ref.113)
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 5TH DAY OF AUGUST,
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ATTEST:
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ITY CLER - MARVIN C. BRU L
First Reading: July 15, 1974
Second Reading: August 5, 1974
Published: August 14, 1974
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