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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

Zero grace days after the printed due time for avoiding the penalty: payment must be received by the City Customer Service offices by 5:00 p.m. on the due date. The bill itself is generated approximately 25 days before it is due, but a payment received after the due-time cutoff is subject to the ordinance penalty and next-business-day posting.

Late-fee calculation

Irving assesses a 10% penalty on all outstanding current charges when payment is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the due date. Online, bank, and drop-box payments can take one or more bank/business days to post, so the City instructs customers to allow processing time. Replacement paper statements cost $2.25; other collection, disconnect, and deposit charges can apply under the City ordinance.

Disconnection timeline

An account with an unpaid balance more than 30 days past due is disconnected. If a deposit was included in the first month's bill, the City may disconnect without further notice when payment is not made by 5:00 p.m. on the bill's due date. After a nonpayment disconnect, payment arrangements are no longer available, all previous amounts and disconnect-related fees must be paid, and the City may require a new deposit up to four times the account's highest utility bill before restoration.

Statutory warning protocol

What notice should you expect?

The official payment-options page publishes the 30-days-past-due trigger and special no-notice treatment for an unpaid first-month deposit bill, but does not promise a particular automated-call, SMS, colored-mailer, or door-hanger sequence for ordinary delinquency. Customers can request payment arrangements at City Hall, with a maximum of twice per year, and should act before the account passes the disconnection threshold. Texas landlord/tenant protections may separately apply when a landlord is responsible for the utility bill.

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

A dedicated this detail was not publicly posted. As a single published 2026 reconnection amount. Irving requires payment of all previous amounts and fees related to the service disconnect and may require a new deposit of up to four times the account's highest utility bill. The current New Customers page publishes activation fees of $30 same day, $20 for next day or two days out, $15 for three or more days, and a $50 after-hours activation fee, but those are turn-on scheduling fees rather than a confirmed delinquency-reconnection schedule.

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 Irving Water Utilities 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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