§ 86-243. Payment.

(a)

Monthly billing; due date; penalty. Sewer service charges may be billed monthly and shall be payable at the village clerk's office or at any other officially designated location. Statements for such charges and assessments levied and assessed in accordance with this article shall become due and payable within 20 days from and after the date of the statement. If any such statement is not paid when due, a penalty of ten percent will be added thereto.

(b)

Responsibility for payment. The property owner is held responsible for all sewer bills on premises that he owns. All sewer bills and notices of any nature, relative to the sewer service, will be addressed to the owner and/or occupant and delivered to the addressee by first class mail.

(c)

Failure to receive bill no penalty exemption. Every reasonable care will be exercised in the proper delivery of sewer bills. Failure to receive a sewer bill, however, shall not relieve any person of the responsibility for payment of sewer rates within the prescribed period, nor exempt any person from any penalty imposed for delinquency in the payment thereof.

(d)

Delinquent bills; notice of arrears; penalty; lien. On October 15 in each year, notice shall be given to the owner or occupant of all lots or parcels of real estate to which service has been furnished prior to October 1 and for which payment is owing and in arrears at the time of giving such notice. The utility shall furnish the village treasurer with a list of all such lots or parcels of real estate, and the notice shall be given by the village treasurer. Such notice shall be in writing and shall state the amount of such arrears, including any penalty assessed pursuant to the rules of such utility; that unless the same is paid by November 1, a penalty of ten percent of the amount of such arrears will be added thereto; and that unless such arrears and penalty is paid by November 15, the same will be levied as a tax against the lot or parcel of real estate to which service was furnished and for which payment is delinquent, as specified. Such notice may be served by delivery to either such owner or occupant personally, or by letter addressed to such owner or occupant at the post office address of such lot or parcel of real estate. On November 16, the village treasurer issuing the notice shall certify and file with the village clerk a list of all lots or parcels of real estate, giving the legal description thereof and the amount of unpaid arrears and penalty. Each such delinquent amount, including such penalty, shall thereupon become a lien upon the lot or parcel of real estate to which the service was furnished and payment for which is delinquent, and the village clerk shall insert the same as a tax against such lot or parcel of real estate. All proceedings in relation to the collection of general property taxes and to the return and sale of property for delinquent taxes shall apply to the tax if the same is not paid within the time required by law for payment of taxes upon real estate.

(Code 1966, § 23.07)

State law reference

Similar provisions, W.S.A., § 66.069(1)(b).