§ 41-699. Electric service cut-off reconnection; dishonored checks; charges.

(a)

Charges for electric current by meter or otherwise shall be due and payable monthly according to dates to be determined by the city, and each monthly bill shall have stamped thereon the due date period. In addition to any late payment charge assessed as provided in section 41-690, if a monthly bill is not paid within 21 days from the due date indicated thereon, an order shall be issued causing the electric service to be disconnected, discontinued or otherwise cut off for such nonpayment period. For purposes of said order, electric service shall be discontinued for any person who owes a past-due and delinquent account that is a recipient, beneficiary or consumer of electric current, whether such electric account is offered by some other name or not.

(b)

When electric service has been disconnected, discontinued or otherwise cut-off, resumption, restoration or reconnection shall occur only upon total payment of the owing amount past due, and upon the payment of a reconnection service charge in an amount currently approved by the city council pursuant to resolution.

(c)

In the event any electric customer-consumer of the city should offer payment for any monthly electric bill, or portion thereof, by means of a check or order which has not been honored on account of insufficient funds of the maker to pay same, or because the check or order was drawn on a closed account or on a nonexistent account, or otherwise dishonored, a check service charge in an amount approved by the city council by resolution shall be charged and collected as a service charge for proper handling and administration; provided, in the event two such dishonored checks or orders are made to the city for electric service within any last preceding 12-month period, payment of each monthly electric bill by such customer-consumer shall be made and acceptable only by certified or cashier's check, or cash.

(d)

Electric deposits, as provided for in section 41-693, shall be held by the director of finance at all times of any customer-consumer electric service, and in the event any electric customer-consumer should desire to discontinue such electric service, the director, upon notification, shall cause such customer-consumer's account to be credited in the amount of the deposit made, the balance if any being returned.

(e)

The director is hereby authorized, in the event a monthly bill is not paid within 21 days from the due date indicated, to cause there to be charged the amount owing against the electric deposit made, and to continue electric service without a full deposit again being made, for no longer than 21 days from the indicated due date of the next subsequent electric monthly bill; provided, should an electric deposit be applied in such manner, compliance with the provisions of section 41-693 shall again be necessary.

(Code 1966, § 18-54; Code 1982, § 30-309; Ord. No. 1845, § 3, 6-18-1979; Ord. No. 2043, § 3, 1-3-1983; Ord. No. 2431, § 1, 6-15-1992; Ord. No. 2432, § 1, 6-15-1992)