(A) All persons must sign up and maintain an account with the City to receive sanitation service, when such service is provided by the City at the time the person purchases, owns, leases, uses or occupies, whichever occurs first, property within the City, regardless of whether the sanitation service is used. For purposes of this subsection, maintain an account means to open an account with the City for sanitation service and make all payments due on that account.

(B) All property owners shall provide the City with the names of all tenants occupying the property owner’s property within 30 days of the inhabitation of the property owner’s property.

(C) Base fees and any charges for sanitation service shall apply even if a residence is unoccupied.

(D) No person within the City shall be permitted to avoid or refuse to accept residential sanitation service if available to be provided by the City to their residence. The failure of any person to accept sanitation service shall not exempt that person from the payment of the charges for the service and any fine or penalty for noncompliance.

(E) Failure to Subscribe. Any person that is required to receive sanitation service from the City who fails to activate a sanitation account with the City as required in this section shall be subject to penalties, which include but are not limited to the total monthly fees they would have been assessed and an activation fee. This shall be in addition to any other penalties provided in this chapter.

(F) It is unlawful for any property owner to allow any person to lease, rent, or inhabit the property owner’s property if that person leasing, renting, occupying or inhabiting the property owner’s property does not maintain all utility services available and provided by the City.

(G) It is unlawful for any person to lease, rent, or inhabit any property if that person does not maintain all utility services available and provided by the City.

(H) For purposes of subsections (F) and (G) of this section, maintain all utility services means to open and keep open an active account with the City for all utility services available and provided by the City and to make all payments when due on that account for the duration of the lease, rental, occupancy or inhabitance of the property owner’s property. (Ord. 08-1151, passed 12-15-2008; Am. Ord. 09-1190, passed 7-13-2009; Am. Ord. 11-1232, passed 1-24-2011; Am. Ord. 14-1297, passed 8-18-2014. Formerly 10-1-2(A), (B))