#154 Imposing Water Penalty Rates

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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY VILLAGE OF ARDEN HILLS ORDINANCE NO. 154 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NOS. 103 AND 119, RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM, BY IMPOSING NEW DELINQUENCY PENALTIES. The Village Council of the Village of Arden Hills does hereby ordain as follows: Section 1. Revision of Delinquency Charges. SecTion 3.4 oi Ordinance No. 103, relating fo the municipal water system of Arden Hills and particularly }o collecTion of tlelinquen} charges in connection iherewith, previously amended by Ord. No. 119, is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: 3.4 (a) Delinquency Penalties and Collection of Delinquent Charges. A tlelinquency penalty of 8 per cent of the unpaid water bill for charges hereunder shall be charged, effective on the daTe stated, in accordance wiih the following schedule: For the 1sT quarter - June 10 For the 2nd quarter - September 10 For the 3rd quarter - December 10 For the 4Yh quarTer - March 10 If the delinquency daTe falls on a non-business day for the Village Hall, the penalties shall be imposed on the next business day, but fi rst crediting payments received on That day. (b) Except as provided in SeC. 3.4 (e) hereof, the aforesaid delinquency penalTy shall be imposed upon and added to all unpaid water bills, including those incurred and previously billed in 1971 or in January, 1972. With respect To Those bills, however, the Clerk- AdminisTrator shal I give written notice of This provision to Those cusTomers at least thirty (30) days before June 10, 1972. Such notice may be mailed wiTh the usual billing in April, 1972, at the option of the Clerk- AdminisTrator. (c) Penalties provided herein shall be added To the outsTanding bill by the Clerk-Adminisirator and mailed in the usual course af the nexT regular billing date, showing in Thesame bill the current billing; e.g., July 5, 1972, affer the first penalty daTe. (d) The Council has nofetl that under SecTion 3.3 hereof bills are due at the end of the billing monih, and accordingly the delinquency charge hereunder will be imposed more ihan a monih after the due daTe of a billing. (e) Any amounis due tor waTer charges hereunder may be collected in a civil action brought for ThaT purpose in the name of the V illage; or ihe V illage Clerk- Administrator, upon direction thereon by the Council, may cer?ify to the County Auditor the amount due, fogether with the legal description of the premises served, and the Clerk-AdminisTrator, in so certifying, shall add to such amounT as a separaTe iTem, in addition to the tlelinquency penalty hereinbefore provided, an additional delinquency penalTy of 8 per cenT of the original unpaid amounT, exdusive of any previous delinquency penalty. The County Auditor shall ihereupon enter such amount as part ot the tax levied on said premises to be collecTed during the ensuing year. No addiTional delinquency penalties hereuntler shall be added fo unpaid bills afTer certification to the CounTy Auditor as provided herein. Section 4. Separability. If any provision of ihis or- dinance or the application ihereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidiTy shall noT affecT oTher provisions or applicaTions of the ordinance which can be given effecT without the invalitl provision or application, and to ihis end the provisions of ihis ordinance are declared to be severable. Section 3. EffecTive Date. The penalties and procedures provided herein shall apply forthwith as sTated herein. Subiecf to the foregoing, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after iTs passage and publicaTion. Dated This 271h day ot March, 1972. Henry J. Crepeau, Jr., Mayor Attest: Lorraine E. Stromquist, Clerk-AdminisTraTor (Bulletin: Mar. 30, 1972) ~