A. Where water service is provided to real property by one public entity but that property receives sewer or waste water service from another public entity, and where the sewer or waste water account for the property has been found to be delinquent as determined by the policies adopted by the public entity regarding nonpayment, the governing body of the public entity providing sewer or waste water service to that property may request that the public entity providing water service terminate water service. Until the delinquency has been resolved, the governing body of the public entity providing sewer or waste water service requesting the termination of water service shall provide a proposed date for termination and notice to the public entity providing water service, and to the account holder and property owner of the subject property at least thirty (30) days prior to the proposed date for termination. The public entity providing water service may terminate water service at the subject property on the proposed date for termination or within thirty (30) days thereafter. Should the sewer or waste water delinquency be resolved during the pendency of the termination of water service, or sometime thereafter, the public entity which requested termination of water service shall provide the public entity providing water service notice of the resolution of delinquency no later than the first business day following resolution. The public entity providing water service shall renew water service no later than the first business day following the notice. Should the sewer or waste water delinquency be resolved during the pendency of the termination of water service, or sometime thereafter, the public entity which requested termination of water service shall provide the account holder and the property owner notice of the resolution of the delinquency, upon request.
B. Each public entity desiring to utilize the termination provision authorized in subsection A of this section shall enact, in accordance to law and as required by this act, notice and hearing procedures to ensure account holders and property owners receive adequate notice and opportunity for hearing prior to commencement of the procedures authorized in subsection A of this section.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 98, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.