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refuse related charges as established pursuant to section 16-38, sanitation related <br />charges as established pursuant to section 18-601 et seq., sewerage related <br />charges as established pursuant to section 39.55.1 et seq., and all above related <br />corresponding associated penalties, and are due and payable to the department <br />of finance on the due date which is on the date of presentation and honnmo <br />deloRq eRt thirty (30) days a#er the date Of si inh preGeRtatiGR fourteen (14) days <br />from the billing statement date except that when the 30th-14th day falls on a <br />weekend, city holiday, or city hall closure day, such bills shall be due on the next <br />following city business day. Any charge for water supplied to any customer, or any <br />related charges or fees (including fire line charges), together with any refuse <br />service, sanitation service, sewerage service charges, fees, or penalties due to the <br />city from such customer, or due from any person who has applied for water service, <br />as herein provided for, shall be added to any billing being currently rendered to <br />such person, and the same shall become a part of 14s their current municipal utility <br />services account/billing statement for water service and subject to all of the <br />provisions of this chapter. Partial payments made upon municipal utility services <br />account/billing statements shall be applied in the following order: <br />(1) Refuse service related charges, <br />(2) Sanitation related charges, <br />(3) Sewerage service related charges, <br />(4) Water service commodity consumption charges and related charges <br />(including fire line service charges) and fees established pursuant to <br />section 39-19, and <br />(5) Corresponding penalties and fees as provided respectively under <br />sections 16-38(c), 18-603(b), 39-55.2(a), and 39-20(d). <br />(b) Failure of meter to register correctly. If a meter fails to register during any period, <br />or is known to have registered inaccurately, the customer shall be charged for a <br />seasonally adjusted average daily consumption for a period of similar duration <br />determined when the meter was registering accurately. <br />(c) Meter reread and meter investigation. When a meter box is inaccessible at the time <br />the routine meter read was attempted by the city or when consumption occurs in <br />connection with a previously turned off meter, or when a customer requests that <br />the city verify the accuracy of the read as shown on the bill, the customer shall be <br />charged a "special investigation/meter reread fee" as established by resolution of <br />the city council for sending a field representative to the service address to <br />investigate the meter and obtain a reading or rereading of the meter. If the reading <br />or rereading shows that the previous read is in error, no special investigation/meter <br />reread fee will be imposed; otherwise such charge shall be added to the customer's <br />next regularly scheduled water bill. <br />(d) Penalties. A penalty of ten (10) percent shall be assessed on the unpaid balance <br />of all unsatisfied municipal utility services account/billing statement charges and <br />fees, and penalties thirty (30) days after the presontatinn billing statement date, in <br />accordance with subsection (a). Thereafter, a pastdue delinquency notice shall be <br />presented to the customer. On the neXt pity working day followingshe seventh (7th) <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXXX <br />Page 10 of 15 <br />