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utilities bill on which said sewer user charge appears, as required by said Chapter 64, and
<br /> penalties and late charges for delinquent payments listed therein shall be fully applicable to
<br /> delinquent payments of the sewer user charge.
<br /> (B) Owners of lots, buildings or premises not furnished water by the City (Section IOD),
<br /> receiving water from another Public Water Supply (Section I OE) and those using sewage meters
<br /> pursuant to (Section IOF), will be billed separately for the sewer user charge or billed on the
<br /> local Public Water Supply's Utility Bill. Timelines and late charges for payment as set out in
<br /> said Chapter 64, and referred to in subparagraph (12A) shall be fully applicable thereto.
<br /> 13. SEPARATE FUND. All receipts from the sewer user charge shall be placed in a separate
<br /> fund and may be expended only for sanitary sewer construction, repair, maintenance,
<br /> improvements and related items associated therewith, including but not limited to capital debt
<br /> retirement, including interest, and engineering and legal costs, and other appropriate
<br /> administrative charges.
<br /> Section 4. That Chapter 74 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is
<br /> hereby, further amended and modified by renumbering all existing sections after Section 8 of
<br /> Chapter 74 starting with the number 14 and all section references inside the Chapter shall be
<br /> renumbered accordingly:
<br /> Section 5. That Chapter 74 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is
<br /> hereby, further amended and modified in Section 14 (existing Section 9), of Chapter 74, so that
<br /> said Section 14 as amended, shall provide as follows:
<br /> 14. LIEN; SERVICE SHUT OFF. Should any charge, or part thereof, not be timely paid as
<br /> provided herein, in addition to any other remedy provided for in this Code, collection thereof
<br /> may be had in any appropriate action in law or in equity, and said unpaid amount shall be a lien
<br /> upon the premises served by said connection, and in addition thereto, upon such notice and in
<br /> such time and manner as is provided elsewhere in this Code regarding charges for water service,
<br /> or water main connection charges, shall be cause for the termination of sewer service, or water
<br /> service, or both, to said premises. All costs to restore a sewer and/or water service that has been
<br /> terminated shall be at the expense of the owner.
<br /> Section 6. That Chapter 74 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is
<br /> hereby, further amended and modified in Section 24 (existing Section 19), of Chapter 74, so that
<br /> said sub-section b-9 be removed from Section 24 and moved to make a new Section 31, Section
<br /> 31 shall provide as follows:
<br /> 31. ADMISSION TO PROPERTY. Whenever it shall be necessary for the purposes of
<br /> this Chapter, upon the presentation of credentials, the Public Works Director, or designee, may
<br /> enter upon the property or premises at reasonable hours or at any hour in the case of an
<br /> emergency for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and inspecting
<br /> and monitoring equipment or method, or any pretreatment facilities, or testing of any discharge
<br /> of wastewater to the wastewater system.
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