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<br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />MAY 11, 1982 <br /> <br />_. <br /> <br />Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following <br /> <br />ordinance (introduced and amended at Council's April 27th meeting) which provides <br /> <br />procedures for direct payment (debit) by bank option of qualifying utility customers' <br /> <br />utility service charges, thus amending the Terms and Conditions of the City's utility <br /> <br />services, as hereinafter set forth: <br /> <br />-. <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular session held on May 11, 1982, that a new section shall be added <br />to Article VI of the Terms and Conditions of Electric Service (originally <br />approved December 23, 1980) and to Article VIII of the Terms and Conditions <br />of Water and Sewer Services (originally approved March 24, 1981), to provide <br />as follows: <br /> <br />Direct Payment (Debit) by Bank Option <br /> <br />All customers with satisfactory records of payment shall have the <br />option to have their bills paid directly by cooperating local banks. <br />Such an arrangement shall require execution by a customer of a <br />standard authorization form to be supplied by the City. Upon <br />acceptance of the authorization form by the City and the customer's <br />bank, the sole copy of the customer's bill will be forwarded to the <br />customer's bank for direct debiting to the customer's checking <br />account. <br /> <br />The customer will not receive advance notification of the amount of <br />the bill nor the consumption upon which the bill is based prior to <br />the direct debiting process. <br /> <br />Upon receiving it, the bank will handle the bill as though it were <br />a check, debiting the account and forwarding payment to the City <br />Treasurer within three working days. The customer's portion of the <br />bill will be forwarded by the bank to the customer in accordance <br />with the Bank's standard procedures. <br /> <br />In the event a bank returns a debit bill for reason of insufficient <br />funds, the customer will be required to pay a $10.00 service charge. <br />Should a second such incident occur, a service charge of $10.00 will <br />be required and the customer's option for Direct Payment (Debit) by <br />Bank will be terminated. <br /> <br />Also upon motion, duly seconded, with the vote being four-to-one in favor of the <br /> <br />motion (Councilman Reed voting against the hereinafter-authorized extension from <br /> <br />twenty days to twenty-two days for the application of delayed penalties on utility <br />