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The City of Topeka, Kansas, shall have the power by ordinance or resolution to adopt rules and regulations that shall include, but not be limited to, providing for the management and operation of its Sewer System or Sewer Systems, prohibiting the discharge into such Sewer System or Sewer Systems of matter deleterious to the proper operation of the Sewer System or Sewer Systems and the general health, safety and welfare of the community, establishing the types and characteristics of sewage and stormwater that may be discharged into the Sewer System or Sewer Systems, establishing the method for calculating and fixing the service charge for property served by the City’s Sewer System or Sewer Systems, requiring security for the payment thereof, and providing methods and rules of collection, and providing for the disposition of the revenue therefrom. In the event any person, firm, corporation, political unit or organization living or operating on property served by the City’s Sewer System or Sewer Systems shall neglect, fail or refuse to pay the service charges fixed by the governing body of the city, the city may, as authorized by rules and regulations adopted under the authority of this section and if a unified and consolidated billing system has been established, refuse the delivery of water through the pipes and mains of its publicly owned waterworks until such time as such charges are fully paid. (C.O. 84 § 4, 6-11-96.)