Title 13 Public Utilities and Serv ices
Chapter 13.03 Sewers
Article X. Administrative Provisions
Section 13.03.0904 Payment – Delinquency – Lien
All charges for serv ices rendered, including utility serv ice, special jobs, labor and materials and connection fees are payable to the city treasurer.
If such charges are not paid, upon delinquency the amount thereof shall become a lien against the premises receiving sewer serv ice as provided in RCW 35.67.200 et seq., and may further be enforced as provided in the applicable laws.
Interest on delinquencies subject to this chapter is eight percent per annum, computed on a monthly basis. (See RCW 35.67.200)
All additional lien and enforcement rights by statute and at common law are reserv ed by the City.
The sewer serv ice lien is effective six months without filing, as permitted by RCW 35.21.210.
Alternatively, and in lieu of the provisions of that statute, the City has a lien for one year’s delinquent serv ice charges or such period of delinquency as may apply up to said time limit, as permitted by RCW 35.67.215.
The foreclosure action may be commenced at any time after six months subsequent to furnishing of sewerage serv ice, as provided in RCW 35.67.230.
As provided in RCW 35.67.290, any lien authorized by chapter 35.67 RCW may be enforced by cutting off the water serv ice from the premises to which such sewer serv ice was furnished after the charges become delinquent and unpaid, until the charges are paid.
The right to enforce the lien by cutting off and refusing water serv ice shall not be exercised after two years from the date of the recording of sewerage lien notice except to enforce payment of six months’ charges for which no lien notice is required to be recorded; provided further, water serv ice shall not be shut off to a new tenant not responsible for a prior delinquency to the extent required by law.
Date Passed: Monday, October 15, 2007
Effective Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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