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14-234-704. Cooperative billing arrangements.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-234-704. Cooperative billing arrangements.
(a) A corresponding water utility may enter into a written agreement with a sewer utility or other entity, including without limitation an entity responsible for trash collection, for the regular billing and collection of the bills of the sewer utility or other entity by the corresponding water utility on behalf of the sewer utility or other entity for a fee to be paid by the sewer utility or other entity.
(b) When a corresponding water utility is responsible for the regular billing and collection of bills for a sewer utility or other entity based on a written agreement under subsection (a) of this section:
(1) The requirements of § 14-234-703 do not apply; and
(2) The corresponding water utility may terminate water service to a customer for the customer's failure to pay any portion of the collective bill sent by the corresponding water utility on behalf of itself and any sewer utility or other entity under this section.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-234-704
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14-234-704. Cooperative billing arrangements.
(a) A corresponding water utility may enter into a written agreement with a sewer utility or other entity, including without limitation an entity responsible for trash collection, for the regular billing and collection of the bills of the sewer utility or other entity by the corresponding water utility on behalf of the sewer utility or other entity for a fee to be paid by the sewer utility or other entity.
(b) When a corresponding water utility is responsible for the regular billing and collection of bills for a sewer utility or other entity based on a written agreement under subsection (a) of this section:
(1) The requirements of § 14-234-703 do not apply; and
(2) The corresponding water utility may terminate water service to a customer for the customer's failure to pay any portion of the collective bill sent by the corresponding water utility on behalf of itself and any sewer utility or other entity under this section.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-234-703. Cooperation between sewer and water utilities — Termination of water service.
(a)(1) A sewer utility may request notification from a corresponding water utility of any change to customer information, including without limitation a change:
(A) To a billing address; and
(B) In service, including a new or additional connection or a disconnection.
(2) A corresponding water utility shall provide the customer information requested to the sewer utility within fifteen (15) days of the change in customer information.
(b)(1) A corresponding water utility shall terminate water service to a customer of the sewer utility who is also a customer of the corresponding water utility upon receiving a signed statement from a representative of the sewer utility that states:
(A) That the customer has not paid for sewer utility service for more than fifteen (15) days past the due date shown on the face of the sewer utility bill; and
(B) That the sewer utility has sent notice to the customer by the sewer utility's preferred delivery method of notification from the choices of notification that the United States Postal Service can provide.
(2) The signed statement required under this subsection shall be accompanied by a copy of the following:
(A) Documentation showing that the customer has not paid for sewer utility service for more than fifteen (15) days past the earliest due date shown on the face of the sewer utility bill;
(B) The notice required under subdivision (b)(1)(B) of this section; and
(C) Documentation showing that the sewer utility mailed the termination notice required under subdivision (b)(1)(B) of this section.
(3) The signed statement required under this subsection may be sent to a water utility electronically.
(c) Upon receipt of payment f
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-234-703
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-234-703. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.