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Delinquency and service protection

Understand the shut-off process before it reaches your door

The safest time to ask about a past-due balance, payment arrangement, or hardship protection is before the final notice. This page translates the provider’s published rules into a practical checklist.

Notice and timing

How delinquency is handled

Grace period after the due date

Bills are due on the fifteenth day after the bill date; if that day is a weekend or holiday, payment is due the next workday.

Late-fee calculation

Rates are net, and the gross amount for delinquent payment is 10% higher. The City can require all utility charges, connection/reconnection charges, and initial or reinstated deposits before service is connected or reconnected.

Disconnection timeline

The bill is due 15 days after issuance, or the next workday when the due date is a holiday or weekend. If full payment is not received by the due date, all utility services are delinquent and subject to disconnection; the current page does not publish a separate fixed number of warning days before physical termination.

Statutory warning protocol

What notice should you expect?

The City identifies delinquency by the due date and may disconnect all utility services for nonpayment. The reviewed page does not specify exact warning media, notice count, automated call sequence, text notices, or door hangers; those details are not publicly stated.

If a notice seems wrong

Document the account balance, payment confirmation, notice date, and any household medical or accessibility concern. Then call the provider using the contact information on its official bill or profile before the stated deadline.

Restoring service

Reconnection costs and timing

Connection and reconnection charges, plus any required deposit, must be paid before service is connected or reconnected. The current public page does not expose the numerical standard or after-hours water-restoration fee.

Need a payment arrangement?

Ask before the shut-off date

Tell the customer-service representative that you are responding to a delinquency notice and ask specifically about installment plans, hardship protection, charity referrals, and the amount required to stop the disconnection order.

Customer protection guide

What to do when a bill becomes urgent

A delinquency notice from City of Brenham Utility Customer Service and Billing should be treated as a time-sensitive account document. Read the exact due date, amount required, notice method, and contact instructions on the notice, then compare them with the provider details in this guide.

If you have already paid, gather the confirmation number and posting date. If you cannot pay the full amount, call before the stated shut-off date and ask about arrangements, hardship protections, agency referrals, and the minimum amount needed to pause action.

Keep the conversation specific: ask what will stop the order, when the payment must post, whether a reconnection fee applies, and whether the utility requires a separate request for medical, accessibility, or household-protection status.

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