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2984 ORDINANCE 2984 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS OF MOSES LAKE MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 13.12 TITLED "WATER, SEWER, AND STORMWATER RATES" THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOSES LAKE, WASHINGTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The following sections of Chapter 13.12 of the MLMC titled "Water, Sewer, and Stormwater Rates" are amended as follows: 13.12.080 Temporarily Vacant or Unoccupied Premises Billing for Fractional Month Service: A. The minimum water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, and/or stormwater service shall continue until an order in writing to discontinue service has been given. The water shall not be turned on or off until a request in writing is given, on forms furnished by the City, for the turning on or off of the service. B. When utility services are resumed or commenced during the last fifteen (15) days of the between monthly billing cycles, monthly base rates for water, sewer, garbage, stormwater and ambulance shall be prorated based on the number of days service is provided charged for only half of a month. Water shall be charged based on consumption. Where metered water or sewer consumption exceeds the allowance provided by the base rate, additional consumption will be and billed in accordance with the adopted fee schedule at the rates provided for by ordinance. 13.12.060 Payment of Accounts: A. Water, sewer, garbage, and stormwater bills shall be the responsibility of and billed directly to the property owner, unless the property owner wishes the bill sent to another address, the same shall be due and payable within thirty (30) days of the billing date. If the property owner wishes the bill sent to another address, the property owner first must execute a form provided by the City of Moses Lake indicating the property owner’s desires. The form shall include the property owner’s name and address, the address to which the bill shall be sent, and a statement that if the person at the address to which the bill is sent moves and leaves an unpaid balance, the property owner assumes responsibility for the bill. The billing dates for utility accounts shall be as follows: Routes 1 through 15 on the 20th of each month Routes 16 through 24 29 on the 30th of each month Routes 50 through 60, 70, and 71 75 on the 10th of each month B. The property owners of commercial accounts and governmental agencies may sign agreements requesting that their monthly statements be mailed to service addresses. The statement will contain the same information referred to in subsection A. Document Ref: AL7AH-2DBCV-EQVFP-SBASH Page 1 of 3 C. The City reserves the right to cut off the water supply from the premises. The water supply may be cut off if either the water charge, sewer charge, garbage charge, ambulance charge, or the stormwater charge is delinquent, and should the water supply be turned off for failure to pay either the sewer charge, water charge, garbage charge, ambulance charge, or stormwater charge when due, the water supply shall not be turned on until all delinquent charges have been paid in full. A service charge shall be assessed as set forth in Subsection B of 13.12.085 and shall be added to the amount past due and will be billed on the next month’s statement. D. The City shall have a lien against the premises for unpaid water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, and stormwater charges as provided by the laws of the state. E. Advance payments may be made on any water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, or stormwater account. F. Water service will not be terminated if there is a past due water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, or stormwater charge of twenty dollars ($20) or less, subject to subsection G. G. No water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, or stormwater bills shall be allowed to be more than sixty (60) days past due regardless of the past due amount. If a water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, or stormwater account is to become sixty (60) days past due, water service shall be terminated as provided herein before the sixtieth (60th) day ends. H. No water, sewer, garbage, ambulance, or stormwater account will be transferred to another person, partnership, corporation, or other entity unless the account is brought current prior to the requested transfer. I. Property served by more than one (1) meter must keep all accounts current in accordance with this chapter in order to avoid water service being terminated to all meters serving the property. Section 2. Severability. If any section of this ordinance is found to be unconstitutional or invalid as written or as applied to any particular person or circumstances, no other section of the ordinance shall be deemed to be invalid, but rather, should be deemed to have been enacted independently and without regard to the section affected. Section 3 . This ordinance shall take effect and be in force October 1, 2021. Adopted by the City Council and signed by its Mayor on September 14, 2021. _______________________________ David Curnel, Mayor Document Ref: AL7AH-2DBCV-EQVFP-SBASH Page 2 of 3 ATTEST: ________________________________ Debbie Burke, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: _______________________________ Katherine L. Kenison, City Attorney Riggs Liebrecht Myers Jackson Curnel Eck Hankins Vote: Date Published: September 20, 2021 Date Effective: October 1, 2021 Aye Aye Aye Aye AyeAye Aye Document Ref: AL7AH-2DBCV-EQVFP-SBASH Page 3 of 3 Signature Certificate Document Ref.: AL7AH-2DBCV-EQVFP-SBASH Document signed by: Katherine Kenison Verified E-mail: kkenison@basinlaw.com IP: 173.209.171.7 Date: 16 Sep 2021 18:56:01 UTC Mayor David Curnel Verified E-mail:dcurnel@cityofml.com IP: 63.142.221.35 Date: 16 Sep 2021 19:41:57 UTC Debbie Burke Verified E-mail: dburke@cityofml.com IP: 63.135.54.162 Date: 16 Sep 2021 20:24:36 UTC Document completed by all parties on: 16 Sep 2021 20:24:36 UTC Page 1 of 1 Signed with PandaDoc.com PandaDoc is a document workflow and certified eSignature solution trusted by 25,000+ companies worldwide.