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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

Payment is due by the 15th; if the 15th is a weekend or holiday, the next business day is treated as the grace day. The published schedule does not give a separate calendar-day grace period beyond that rule.

Late-fee calculation

$20 late fee after the 15th; the next business day is the grace day when the 15th falls on a weekend or holiday. Returned checks are charged $20 plus bank charges.

Disconnection timeline

The public rate page does not give a complete day-by-day calendar from missed due date to lockout. It does publish lockout/reconnection fees and instructs members paying a lockout fee to call the office after the online payment clears; exact termination timing should be confirmed with the corporation.

Statutory warning protocol

What notice should you expect?

The corporation's current public pages warn about lockout fees but do not publish a guaranteed automated-call, SMS, colored-mailer, or door-hanger sequence. Members should keep contact information current and call 512-357-6951 when delinquency or a lockout is suspected.

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

$50.00 unlock fee during office hours Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; $100.00 unlock fee after hours or on weekends; $150.00 cut-lock fee where the lock has been cut. The corporation asks members paying a lockout fee to call the office when the online payment goes through.

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 Martindale Water Supply Corporation 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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