§ 4-131. Rates inside and outside city.

(a)

Inside city. The following rates shall be charged for mosquito control services to residents thereof inside the city limits:

(1)

In addition to the charges established for water and other health and sanitation services, there shall be and is hereby fixed and levied a charge of five dollars ($5.00) per month upon the user of a municipal water meter, or receiving sanitary sewer service, all within said corporate boundaries, which shall be and is for the mosquito and vector control program established as part of the health and sanitation services of the city.

(2)

Such charge and levy for mosquito control may be designated as "Mosquito Control" or coded in some recognizable form as may be compatible with the preparation of said statements rendered for water service and other health and sanitation fees and charges, and it shall be collected at the same time, in the same manner, and upon the same conditions as to delinquency as are the charges or levies made for water and said other services.

(3)

Vacant or any other property not served with a water meter or services is found hereby to generate mosquitoes and pests in the same manner as occupied premises and require the same, if not more, treatment for mosquito and pest control as such occupied premises, and the cost of treatment and services upon such premises shall be determined upon and equitable cost and benefit basis by the department of public works and shall be charged to the owner or occupant thereof and collected in such manner as may be hereafter determined by order of the mayor and city council, including assessment as a special benefit upon and to such property.

(b)

Outside city. The rates charged to residents of mosquito control service outside the city limits shall be the same as the rates hereinabove set forth.

(Ord. No. 13-006, § I, 9-3-13)