| Show City Braces Up On Collection Of Water Vater Rentals The City Council at its meeting Thursday ordered rigid enforcement enforce ment of regulations with retards regards to the collection of oC water tap rental rental rent rent- al and the collection of oC city li 11 U- U censes tenses The revised ordinances of oC Cedar Cedar Ce Ce- dar dam City stipulate that all licenses be paid one year in advance thus the licenses should all be paid during January of oC each year However How How- ever for Cor one reason or another all licenses have not been paid Ui in accordance with this tills regulation and the City Council Is now planning planning plan plan- ning ping to put the law Ito effect At order was made at the MeetIng MeetIng Meeting Meet- Meet Ing Thursday that the City Attorney Attorney Attorney ney file me complaint against all firms finns whose city license Is not paid by January If this Is complied with all 1939 licenses must be paid by that date and those 1933 1938 licenses not yet paid must also be paid Most of oC the 1938 licenses have been collected some of them having been paid just recently but there still re remains remains remains re- re mains a few Cew that have not been taken care of oC With regards to ro the collection of water tap rent an order was issued Is Issued issued is- is sued to collect all current rentals by January and have satisfactory sails satis factory arrangements made by that date for the payment of oC delinquent rentals or else turn off ort the water Since there are some delinquencies caused through the actual inability Inability InabU- InabU ity of oC the renter to pay on which the order would work an almost burden the order was made that at least 25 percent of oC the amount must be paid by January 1st and arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments made mad a to pa pay the bala fe and also that that Individuals current rent must be paid or else the water would be shut off Once the water Is turned off ort the renter must pay all delinquencies In full tuu together with a service fee before beCore It will be turned on again aln A determined effort was made last July to collect all water rentals rentals rent- rent r als and as a result the delinquencies cles Iles were reduced to the smallest total it has reached in many years yean However since that time the delinquencies delinquencies de- de have been climbing steadily whether this Is fa the result of oC a relaxing of collection efforts or of oC an Inability of the people eople to topa pa pay cannot be definitely determined deter deter- mined |
