§ 82-150. Liens.

(a)

Failure to pay such charge or assessment. All of the charges and assessments levied under this article shall become liens upon the property benefited from the date due and payable. Whenever the owner of any property chargeable under this article shall fail to pay any such charge or assessment when the same shall become due, whether service was extended to the property on the order of the owner or of a tenant thereof, execution shall issue in the name of the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County, and shall be signed by the director of finance or his designated representative. The execution shall issue in rem against the property benefited by the service, and in personam against the owner thereof, which shall include, in addition to the principal and interest, the sum of $1.50 for the issuance of the same. All executions issued against the property and the owner thereof shall immediately be recorded on the general execution docket in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton County. All executions issued under this article shall have the same lien dignity and priority as fi. fas. or executions issued for county taxes, and shall be subject to enforcement in the same manner as now provided for the enforcement of state or county tax fi. fas., including a levy thereon and the filing and subsequent proceedings in connection with affidavits of illegality.

(b)

Disconnection of water service for failure to pay. Where there remains a delinquent sewer service charge bill on any premises or facilities served by sewerage connection with the Sewerage System of Fulton County, after the occupant of the premises thereof has been notified by the inclusion thereof of the amount of the past due bill and a current bill or a separate bill, and given an opportunity to pay the bill, and refuses to promptly pay the same, water and sewerage service to such premises shall be discontinued regardless of whether the bill remaining delinquent was incurred by a prior owner or occupant of premises; and the county shall not again supply water to any such premises until such arrears shall be fully paid.

(Code 1983, § 28-2-198; Res. No. 06-1167, 11-15-06)