The owner of the premises, the occupant thereof and the user of the service shall be jointly and severally liable to pay for the service to such premises, and the service is furnished to the premises by the City only upon the condition that the owner of the premises, occupant and user of the service are jointly and severally liable therefor to the City.
(1) 
Authority. All water and sewer service charges unpaid and in arrears on October 1 of each year shall be collected in accordance with the procedure hereinafter provided pursuant to the authority granted in §§ 66.0809, 66.0811, 66.0813 and 66.0821, Wis. Stats., respectively.
(2) 
Procedure.
(a) 
On or about October 1 of each year, the Secretary of the Nekoosa Sewer and Water Utilities shall furnish the City Clerk a list of all unpaid utility bills, including penalties, which are in arrears.
(b) 
On October 15 of each year, the Clerk shall mail a notice of such arrearages by first-class mail to the occupant and to the owner of the premises receiving such utility service.
(c) 
In the event any such utility bill is not paid by November 1 thereafter, the Clerk shall add a penalty of 10%.
(d) 
In the event any such utility bill is not paid on or before November 15 thereafter, the Clerk, on November 16, shall place the amount of such arrearages, together with penalty, on the tax roll as a tax against the lot or parcel of real estate for which water and sewer services were provided.
No water or sewer service shall be extended outside the City limits.
(1) 
Application for. The owners of property which is not served by City sewer or water may apply to the Council for sewer and water main extensions. The Council shall determine the feasibility of such proposed extensions.
(2) 
Construction. The City shall construct all sewer and water main extensions.
(3) 
Cost of construction. Special assessments shall be levied at 50% of the cost of construction up to 100 feet and the remaining cost shall be borne by the City for dwellings in existence in the City as of February 8, 1994. The property owner or owners of dwellings not in existence as of February 8, 1994, may pay the City 50% of the estimated cost of the project prior to construction, and final settlement for payment of 100% of the cost of construction by the property owner or owners shall be made immediately after construction is completed, or the City shall levy special assessments for such extensions and shall provide for installment payments, together with interest.
[Amended by Ord. No. 460; 7-10-2012 by Ord. No. 566]
(4) 
Sewer and water taps.
[Added by Ord. No. 304]
(a) 
Extensions. Sewer taps shall be installed in accordance with this subsection whenever sewer extensions are constructed and water taps shall be installed in accordance with this subsection whenever water extensions are constructed along or in any street or alley in the City.
(b) 
Street surfacing. Sewer taps and water taps shall be installed in accordance with this subsection where sewer and water extensions have been previously constructed before any street or alley in the City is hard-surfaced.
(c) 
Number of taps. One sewer tap shall be installed from the sewer extension and one water tap shall be installed from the water extension to the lot line for each lot in a recorded plat or subdivision fronting on a street or alley or for each seventy-five-foot frontage, except where an owner has frontage such that, when divided into one or more seventy-five-foot frontage divisions, there remains a frontage of less than 60 feet, then the owner may be allowed to divide the remaining frontage by increasing one or more of the seventy-five-foot frontage divisions, and when there remains a frontage of 60 feet or more, it shall be treated as a seventy-five-foot frontage under this section.
(d) 
Small lots. A sewer or water tap shall not be required for a lot with no building thereon where the frontage is not sufficient to allow a dwelling or additional dwelling under Chapter 17, Zoning Code, or other ordinances of the City.
(e) 
Industrial districts. This subsection shall not apply to frontage on streets or alleys zoned as an industrial district.
(f) 
Single taps. The owner of a lot which requires a sewer or water tap on a hard-surfaced street or alley where water or sewer extensions have previously been constructed shall be assessed, in addition to the installation of the tap, the cost of the repair of the surface of the street or alley.
(1) 
Required. To assure the preservation of public health, comfort and safety, the Council, in accordance with § 281.45, Wis. Stats., hereby requires any building used for human habitation and located adjacent to a City sewer or water main, or in a block through which such a sewer or water main extends, to be connected with said sewer or water main by means of direct laterals.
(2) 
Penalty. Any person failing to comply for more than 10 days after notice in writing of their failure to make the appropriate connection shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than $10 nor more than $200 for said violation. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(3) 
Connection by City. As an alternative to the penalty provided in Subsection (2) above, the Council may cause the necessary connections to be made, and the expense thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the property in question. The owner may then, within 30 days after the completion of the work, file a written option with the City Clerk stating that he cannot pay such amount in one sum and asking that it be levied in not to exceed five equal annual installments, and that amount shall be so collected with interest at the current municipal rate per annum from the completion of the work, the unpaid balance to be a special tax lien.