Applications for the use and service of utilities that include water, sewer and garbage pickup shall be made in writing to the city clerk and shall contain an agreement by the applicant to abide by and accept all of the provisions of this title as conditions governing the use of city utilities. All applications for utility service shall be made by the property owner and the property owner shall bear the responsibility for the payment of the city’ s utility bills for the city’ s utility service; except, a property owner may request that the city collector send the utility bills in the name of a person or party other than the property owner (for example, where the property owner has a tenant in possession of the property served by the city’ s utility service); provided, that third party’ s written consent is filed with the city’ s collector, in which event, the property owner or said third party shall be required to deposit with the city’ s collector an amount to be set by city ordinance from time to time, to be used and applied to the payment of delinquent utility bills and the unused portion thereof refunded to the depositor upon a change in the registration of said utility account. Notwithstanding in whose name the utility service is registered, ultimate responsibility for the payment of city utility bills shall be deemed to be that of the property owner. The utility service transfer, turn-on and turn-off fees for new, current or old customers, regardless of reason, will be an amount to be set by city ordinance from time to time, per trip made by the public works department. A final reading fee will not be charged to rental customers. (Ord. 1094 § 2, 1993: prior code § 38-1-5)