§ 42-2. Fees, charges and penalties.

(a)

The town may provide garbage collection for residents and businesses and require that they utilize the town collection service for which the town may make reasonable charges which it from time to time may establish.

(b)

All garbage and refuse bills which remain unpaid at the close of business on the tenth day of the month next following the date that such bill is rendered shall be subject to a penalty for each bill as set from time to time by the town council. Should any charges for garbage and refuse collection remain unpaid after the close of business on the tenth day of the next succeeding month, the town treasurer shall notify the town manager, who shall cause the services to include water and sewer, to be stopped from the premises or tenement of the user so in default. When the water and sewer services are cut off for nonpayment, all charges in arrears and penalties thereon, plus an additional service charge as set from time to time by the town council, shall be paid to the town treasurer before the water and sewer services are resumed.

(c)

The town may, at its option, continue to provide garbage and refuse collection services and continue to make charges for such services after a property owner or business has been notified that the water and sewer has been cut off for nonpayment. This service will be continued in an effort to maintain sanitary conditions, and the additional charges and penalties shall continue to accrue until paid.

(d)

Any person responsible for the payment of water and sewer rents and charges, who shall, with the knowledge that such services from the town to the premises occupied by him have been cut off for nonpayment of such rents and charges, use the water or sewer services from the system prior to the time the services are turned on again for the premises by a proper officer of the town shall be guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

(Ord. No. 3, § 9-3(a)—(c), 6-21-93)

(Ord. No. 3, § 9-3(a)—(c), 6-21-93)