(1) Responsibility for Charges. The person or persons who make use of, or discharge materials into, the sewer system of the city of North Bend shall be jointly and severally responsible for the payment of the sewer user charge imposed for such use.

(2) Method of Collection. The Coos Bay-North Bend water board is hereby authorized and directed to collect all of the sewer charges herein levied and imposed and to pay the amounts thereof to the city of North Bend each month. For this purpose the said water board may include sewer charges as a part of their periodic billings for water services. Any sewer user not receiving water service from the Coos Bay-North Bend water board shall be billed each month by the city recorder for sewer charges imposed by this chapter.

(3) Enforcement of Collection. Sewer user charges imposed under this chapter shall be a debt due to city of North Bend, and when such debt shall become 30 days delinquent, this charge may be collected in a civil action in the name of the city against the user or users of such service, or any of them. Collections of sewer user charges may be enforced in the same manner as collections of water charges by the Coos Bay-North Bend water board, which shall act as the agent of the city in such collection.

(4) Rebates. Users of water from the Coos Bay-North Bend water system who pay sewer charges and are not connected with the North Bend sewer system shall be entitled to a rebate of sewer charges paid during any fiscal year ending June 30th after making application therefor to the city recorder within one year following such fiscal year. Such application shall contain the name and address of the user and owner of the property involved, the amount of sewer charges paid to the Coos Bay-North Bend water board and shall certify that the property involved is not connected with the North Bend sewer system. If the city recorder shall determine that the information on the application is correct, payment of the rebate shall be made within 60 days from the filing of the application unless duplicate or conflicting claims are made for the same sewer charges prior to payment, in which case the city recorder shall determine which claimant, if any, is entitled to the rebate.

(5) Notification. Each user shall be notified at least annually in conjunction with a regular billing of the rate and that portion of the user charges which are attributable to wastewater treatment services. (Ord. 1765 §§ 1, 2, 1991; Ord. 1727, 1987; Ord. 1699 § 2, 1985; Ord. 1646, 1982; Ord. 1587 § 4, 1979)