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shall be established by resolution of the city council. Such refuse service charge <br />is imposed to provide for the continuing availability of curbside service and shall <br />be due and payable in accordance with the terms of said resolution regardless of <br />actual use thereof or of any interruptions or delays in such service, except to the <br />extent reductions or refunds may be specifically authorized or directed by the <br />executive director of public works or his or her their designee or by the executive <br />director of finance and management services or his or her their designee. <br />(b) For purposes of administrative convenience, the city council may establish billing <br />units for payment of the said service charge consisting of one (1) or more <br />occupancies within one (1) or more parcels. The said total refuse service charge <br />reflecting the number of billable units shall be billed as provided in section 39-20 <br />as part of the city's regular consolidated municipal utility services account/billing <br />statement but shall be listed as a separate line item on the municipal utility services <br />account/billing statement. <br />(c) A penalty of ten (10) percent shall be assessed on all unpaid refuse service charge <br />bills thirty (30) days afite� the date.billire PGRalty, hewey r�aGGFU8-YRtil <br />thirty (30) days after the date that the bill has been presented and determined to <br />be delinquent in accordance with section 39-20. <br />(d) The said refuse service charge and any penalties accrued for failure to make timely <br />payment therefore shall be a civil debt owing to the city. <br />(e) In the event the occupant(s) of any property or premises, having registered a <br />municipal utility services account and transferred municipal utility services into their <br />own name as tenant(s), thereafter quit or otherwise vacate the premises, then <br />responsibility for future municipal utility services charges, including refuse charges, <br />shall row default to the municipal utility services account of the property owner <br />in accordance with section 39-16. It is the property owner's obligation to contact <br />the city to update billing records when a tenant vacates or a transfer of <br />responsibility is necessary. <br />(f) In addition to all other civil remedies for collection of such indebtedness, in the <br />event that the owner and occupant of the premises or property receiving refuse <br />service are the same, then said civil debt against such customer or person shall <br />be subject to special assessment and lien against said property in the manner <br />provided by law. Establishment of a lien against the property shall remove said <br />refuse charge(s) from the city's regular consolidated municipal utility services <br />account/billing statement and toll the accrual of additional penalties therefore <br />under this section and section 39-20. <br />(g) Charges for bin service, roll -off container service or for collection services more <br />frequent or more extensive than that provided in this article for curbside service <br />shall be paid directly to the city's solid waste collection contractor in accordance <br />with such regulations as shall be established by contract or resolution of the city <br />council. <br />Section 3. Section 18-603 of Article XII (Sanitation Services Users Charge) of <br />Chapter 18 (Health and Sanitation) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended <br />to read as follows (additions are underlined and deletions are stricken): <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXXX <br />Page 2 of 15 <br />