[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Marcus Hook 9-4-2001 by Ord. No. O-01-4, approved 9-4-2001. Amendments noted where applicable.]
In the event that any payment tendered by check or other written instrument on any account owing to the Borough is returned for insufficient funds, there is hereby authorized the imposition of a service charge to be added to that account owing to the Borough in the sum of $15 per check or other written instrument so returned, and the principal of such account shall be increased accordingly.
Any service charge authorized by this chapter shall be collected in the same manner prescribed by law for the collection of the account for which the check or other written instrument was tendered.
The officer or agent of the Borough whose duty it is to collect an account owing to the Borough may, in his or her sole discretion, require that future payments on an account upon which a service charge has been imposed in accordance herewith shall be payable only in the form of cash, certified check or cashier's check, and, after having given written notice of such requirement to the obligor of such account, that officer or agent may refuse tender of payment not in compliance with such requirement.