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RECEIVED
OCT 1 8 2005
Citvof Meridian
CIty Clerk Office
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Our records indicate your account is past due.
This is to notify you that your water service at
will be disconnected if payment of the past due amount is not received
in our office by 8 am on 10/17/2005
The delinquent amount due is:
If service is disconnected, water service will be restored only after payment
in full has been received. A $30.00 reconnect fee will be charged to your account.
PLEASE DO NOT MAIL PAYMENT
To make payment arrangements, please visit our Billing Department prior to ¡
fjnal due date, and refer to this notice. If YOU mail a payment, you run the risk of j
havinq your water service disconnected, If you have made an electronic payment \
and have received this notice, please call or visit the Billing Department i
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If you dispute the bill, or the termination of water service, pursuant to MCC 9-1-21 you are entitled to a
pretermination hearing before the Mayor and City Council. If you would like a pretermination hearing, please
contact the Meridian City Clerks office. The City will not discontinue water service to any water user Prior to a fair
and impartial hearing, after timely and adequate notice and an opportunity to confront witnesses, to personally
appear with retained counsel to be judged on facts adduced at the hearing and to otherwise be heard and defend
the claim made by the city. If you fail to attend the pretermination and have not paid your account, your water
service will be terminated.
CITY OF MERIDIAN 33 E. IDAHO AVE, MERIDIAN, ID 83642
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9-1-21: DELINQUENCIES; CITY PROCEDURE:
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A.Termination Of Service; Notice: The municipal utility billing department shall furnish
monthly each water user a statement of the amount due for water and sewer and other
charges for the preceding month or up to the time that the meter has been read; and if
any water user does not pay the billing within fifteen (15) days from the date of the
. _~tatement, the water user's account shall be delinquent. Water users shall be notified by
regular mail of this delinquency and if the bill is not paid in full within ten (10) days after
service'of-.-t~ls notification on the water user, the right to water shall cease and terminate
unless the owner ceguests a pretermination hearing. Should the water user not request
a pretermination heaifn-g, -o~ if an adverse decision is rendered against the owner after a
pretermination hearing, the city may require the owner to pay the delinquent water bill
attributable to the use, plus a turn on charge as a condition of resumption of water
service, and in the event the water meter has been removed, a fee must be paid as a
condition of resumption of water service. No allowance will be made for nonuse for less
than one month. All corrections as to the charge and all abatements shall be made
under the direction of the mayor and council and shall be certified by the finance
director.
B.Right To Hearing:
1. The city, in its delinquency notice to all water users and owners, shall inform them in
writing of their right to a pretermination hearing, with such hearing to be held with the
due process protection described below. If a pretermination hearing is requested by any
water user, the city will not discontinue water service to any water user prior to a fair
and impartial hearing, after timely and adequate notice and an opportunity to confront
witnesses, to personally appear with retained counsel to be judged on facts adduced at
the hearing and to otherwise be heard and defend the claim made by the city. The city
council shall have the responsibility of holding pretermination hearings. The city council
shall make a record of all pretermination hearings. The city council shall render its
decision in writing, giving the reasons for its determination. In decisions adverse to the
water user, the city council will inform the water user of the right to appeal the decision
pursuant to the Idaho state administrative procedures act 1 .
2. Provided, however, the city shall not initially deny or discontinue water service to any
water user because of any delinquent water bill on that premises that is attributable to
the prior owner. However, any and all unpaid water charges shall be a lien against the
property as provided below. The city may initially deny water service to any water user
who requests service at a new location when that water user has a delinquency at any
previous location or premises. Provided, further, that the city shall not initially deny
water service to any water user for whatever reason without informing the water user of
the right to a hearing before the city council on the issue of whether the city can initially
deny water services. In the case of an initial denial of water service, the city is not
required to provide water service pending a hearing. However, a hearing upon request
of a water user initially denied water service shall be held as expeditiously as possible
and held in the manner and accordance with the procedures for pretermination hearings
delineated above.
C.Lien Imposed: Where allowed by law, all delinquent charges or fees, as provided by this
section, not paid after the final determination of the delinquent account, shall be
imposed as a lien against and upon the property or premises against which such charge
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or fee is levied or assessed; and the clerk shall, at the time of certifying the city taxes,
certify such delinquencies together with all penalties to the tax collector of Ada County,
and when so certified, the same shall be a lien upon the property. All monies collected
by the clerk under the provisions of this section shall be paid over to the city treasurer in
the same manner as is required for the payment of other city monies.
D.Security Deposit: Upon application for new service, or upon reconnection for existing
service which was terminated for nonpayment, the city may require a water user to pay
a deposit in an account to be determined in accordance with policies established by
resolution of the city council. (Ord. 03-1044, 9-23-2003)
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