Short Checks

080.010.070 Short checks.

(a) Payments on account.  All payments made for utility service charges by check for which the check is returned by the bank upon which it is drawn to the City for reason of insufficient funds or a closed account shall be considered as if no payment had been made, and the City shall have all remedies which are otherwise available to it for nonpayment.  In addition, the City may add twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to the utility service charge account for each such short check.  (A 23-93 §1)

(b) Shut-off notice.  Where a customer has received a notice that his/her utility service will be discontinued and then pays during such notice period for such utility service by check, which check is later returned by the bank upon which it is drawn to the City for reason of insufficient funds or a closed account, the City may terminate such utility service by giving forty-eight (48) hours' notice by mailing or posting such notice in the same manner as provided in Paragraph 080.010.060(b).  Such termination of utility service may only be avoided by payment in full of the check amount, plus the fee as provided in Subsection (a) above, in cash or certified funds within said forty-eight-hour period.

(c) Cash requirement.  The City may, at any time after receiving a short check for utility service charges, require future utility service payments in cash or certified funds.

(A 23-93 §1)