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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

Customers have 18 days from the billing date to pay without penalty. The due-by date moves to the next business day if the 18th day is a City holiday. Bills unpaid by the due date are subject to a 10% late fee.

Late-fee calculation

Payments not received by the due date are subject to a 10% late fee. If the account reaches the delinquency process and a disconnect tag has been printed, a $40 fee is charged whether or not the physical shutoff has already occurred. Returned automatic bank drafts incur a $30 returned-item fee, and two returned drafts within 12 months remove the account from the draft program for six months.

Disconnection timeline

The statement prints a disconnect date. If payment or an approved arrangement has not reached Water Billing by 5:00 p.m. on the day before that date, service is subject to disconnection. A $40 tag fee is incurred once the tag is printed. Online or IVR payments made on the disconnect date do not reach the Water Billing Office until the following business day and do not automatically prevent the shutoff or restore service.

Statutory warning protocol

What notice should you expect?

Pasadena places the due-by and disconnect dates on the bill and maintains a Water Billing Notification Center that can deliver account messages when the customer has provided current contact information. The public delinquency page specifically instructs customers to pay by 5:00 p.m. the day before the printed disconnect date or establish an approved payment arrangement. It does not publish a fixed call, text, mailer, or door-hanger sequence beyond the billing and notification tools.

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 $40 delinquency/tag fee applies once the disconnect tag is printed. After nonpayment disconnection, the customer must call Water Billing to have service restored even if payment was made online. A payment made after 5:00 p.m. that the customer wants restored that same evening adds $25 for field-staff overtime, for a $65 total. Pasadena's current public page does not publish a separate weekend rate.

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 Pasadena, Texas Water Billing Department 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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