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further liability or responsibility for supplying water to or
through such tap, and the right of the owner thereof to draw water
from the City supply shall terminate.11
Section 5. Section 23 of Ordinance No. 1110, passed December 19,
1939 and amended by Ordinance No. 1369, passed August 4, 1959, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 23. Payment of Bills. All bills for water are due
and payable on the first day of each month, being payable in advance
for fixed.... rate and on the succeeding month for metered rate, at the
office of the City Treasurer, without any notice what ever to the
consumer, provided, however, that if any such bill is not paid on or
before the fifteenth day of the month in which it accrues, it shall be
considered delinquent and a penalty of Fifty Cents (50C) shall be
added to the charged amount. In the computaion of time for this
section, should the fifteenth day of the month fall on a Saturday,
Sunday or holiday, the first working day for the City Treasurer's
office thereafter shall be treated as the fifteenth day of the month.
In all cases where charges for water are not paid within the time
provided by ordinance, payment may be enforced by shutting off of the
water until all charges, including shut-off and turn -on charges, are
paid.
Section 6. Section 24 of Ordinance No. 1110, passed December 19,
1939, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 24. Water "Shut-off" and "Turn -on" fees and Penalties.
When water has been shut off to any premises for non-payment of water
charges, the same will not be turned on until said charges have been
paid in full, together with a penalty of One Dollar ($1.00) each for
"shut-off" and for "turn -on," providing, however, that nothing shall
prevent the superintendent from making special contracts for the purpose
of liquidating water accounts. When, at the owner's request, the
water is shut-off or turned on at any premises, there shall be a charge
made against the owner and the property and paid to the City in the
sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) for each of any such shut-off or turn'inside
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