HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 15430 ORDINANCENO. 1543 a
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
"SERVICE GENERALLY"
AMENDING LODI MUNICIPAL CODE CHAFTER 13.04 -
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LODI CITY COUNCIL AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Lodi Municipal Code Chapter 13.04 is hereby amended as follows:
(Parts removed from the existing code are in &lee& and additions underlined).
Chapter 13.04, SERVICE GENERALLY
Sections:
13.04.010
13.04.020
13.04.030
13.04.040
13.04.050
13.04.060
13.04.070
13.04.080
13.04.090
13.04.100
13.04.110
13.04.120
13.04.130
Definitions
Application for service or discontinuance
Bill payment and delinquency
Connections generally
Connection charges
Apartments and flats
Restriction or interruption
Connection or reconnection by plumbers
Right of access for inspection
Pipe and facility maintenance
Service only to contracted premises
Bill adjustment
Low income adjustments
13.04.030 Bill payment and delinquency.
A. Payment. All bills for the services enumerated in this chapter are due and payable upon receipt thereof,
at the finance department, City Hall, Lodi, California, and become delinquent twenty days after the
postmark date of the bill.
B. Delinquency. The director of finance shall send notice of delinquent bills, and if all delinquent charges
for service are not paid within ten days after mailing this notice, then the director of finance may
discontinue all service furnished to the customer by the city, the customer shall be given the opportunity
to be heard as to any adjustment or cancellations of any bill. The hearing shall be held before the director
of finance or his designee. In the vent of a discontinuance of service, as provided in this sub-section, the
director of finance may require as a condition precedent to the resumption of service that the customer pay:
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3.
The amount of the delinquent bill;
The cost to the city of discontinuing and resuming service; and
A deposit in an amount not exceeding the estimated amount of charges for two months' service.
The finance director mav waive delinquent amounts and negotiate a one-time re-uavment schedule for UD
to six months (within any twelve month period) when in the nuinion of the finance director the customer
can demonstrate financial hardshio due to the recent loss of emuloyment or another hardshiu condition.
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c. Closing Bills. Closing bills are due on the date on which service is discontinued. (Ord. 1333 &1
(9)(A); prior code & 2-39) r
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the City Council. The late charee mav be waived bv the finance director when considered to be in the best
interest of the Citv when the customer can Dresent evidence of financial hardship or convincine information
that timelv Davment could not have been reasonablv expected,
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed insofar as such
conflict may exist.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published one time in the "Lodi News Sentinel," a daily newspaper
of general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi and shall be in force and take effect thirty
days from and after its passage and approval.
Attest:
ALICE M. REIMCHE
City Clerk
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State of California
County of San Joaquin, ss.
I, Alice M. Reimche, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1543 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Lodi held March 4, 1992 and was thereafter
passed, adopted and ordered to print at a regular meeting of said
Council held March 18, 1992 by the following vote:
Ayes: Council Members - Hinchman, Pennino, Sieglock
Noes: Council Members - None
Absent: Council Members - None
Abstain : Council Members - None
Snider and Pinkerton (Mayorj
1 further certify that Ordinance No. 1543 was approved and signed by the
Mayor on the date of its passage and the same has been published
pursuant to law.
&lk. &4K.& ALICE M. REIMCHE
City Clerk
Approved as to Form
BOBBY W. McNATT
City Attorney
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