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PAYMENT AND COLLECTION
If the payment is received prior to the tenth of the month (or the twentieth if
billed on second cycle) following the month in which the service was performed,
rendered, or available, of if such payment bears a postmark within such limit, or
received in the overnight depository by 8 00 a m. the following day, such payments
shall be considered timely and not deliquent. When the said tenth day (or the
twentieth if billed on second cycle) falls on a Sunday or a legal City Holiday such
time for payment shall be extended to the next business day. When payment is made
after the tenth of the month (or the twentieth if billed on second cycle) 10% will
be added to the next bill. Second notices will be sent to all accounts not paid
by the tenth of the month (or the twentieth if billed on second cycle).
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FAILURE TO PAY CHARGES
If a third notice is required, utility service will be discontinued. Account
balance plus a $10 00 service charge and the required connect fee must be
paid before service will be restored. The customer will be required to pay
the service charge whether utilities have been discontinued or not.
REREAD CHARGES, CONNECT CHARGES
AND RETURN CHECK CHARGES
The City will reread any customer's water and/or electric meter at the custo-
mer's request. If the reread meter was correctly read and there was no error
on the part of the City, the customer shall be charged $10 00. If the reread
meter was read incorrectly, there shall be no charge to the customer. There
shall be a $15 00 charge for connecting water or electric services. The con-
nect charge will apply to new customers, customers moving from one location to
another and for reconnecting services discontinued for failure to pay charges.
There shall be a $10.00 charge for all returned checks.
SECTION II That there shall be a $100 00 Utility Deposit required on each
dwelling unit. There shall be no deposit required on any dwelling unit occu-
pied by its owner.
All commercial establishments shall be required to post a Utility Deposit equal
to at least twice the average monthly bill of that establishment or a similar
establishment of its kind. The minimum commercial deposit shall be $100.00.
SECTION III That all ordinances, resolutions, and orders heretofore passed,
adopted and made, or any part of the same, affecting rates, charges and policies
for sales made or services rendered by the Electric, Water, Waste -Water, or
Garbage Systems of the City of Georgetown, which are in conflict with this
Ordinance, shall be and the same are hereby in all things repealed, provided,
that those provisions of the Garbage and Trash Ordinance passed on the 10th
day of March, 1975, as amended on the 8th day of March, 1976, which are not
in conflict herewith are not repealed.
READ, PA SED AND APPROVED by the City Council on first reading this day i
of 1983, and on second and final reading this �L 2 day of usf
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John C Doefler, Mayor
City of Georgetown
ATTEST'
Jim Colbert, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joe McMaster
City Attorney
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