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normal business hours and on weekends and holidays These charges will also apply to other service • calls. Sec. 31-120. Removal of sewer obstructions. In case of any stoppage in a public sewer, the city shall remove the obstruction. If the stoppage occurs in the sewer between a building and the city sewer main, the property owner whose property connects with the public sewer shall remove the obstruction. If the owner fails to remove the obstruction within forty-eight (48) hours after notice from the city, the obstruction may be removed by the city and the cost thereof, together with twenty (20) percent thereof, shall be paid by the owner or customer in whose name the water account for the property is held. When the City is called to investigate a_sewer stoppaqe dollars ($48.00) for service calls after normal business hours on weekends and on holidays Sec. 31-152. Customer deposits. (a) The director of finance shall require deposits from persons applying for water service in accordance with the rules established in this section. (b) The normal deposit requirements shall be as follows: (1) Residential accounts --$39-99 - $75.00 (2) Nonresidential accounts at locations with no history of water service — $75.00 (3) The deposit for a nonresidential account at a location with a previous history of water service shall be the greater of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) or the total of the two (2) prior highest monthly water bills at that location. • (c) The normal deposit requirement will be waived if: (1) The applicant furnishes a letter from another gas, water or electric utility with whom he has had service within the past twenty-four (24) months certifying that he has maintained an acceptable credit record; or (2) The director of finance is able to establish by telephone call to another gas, water or electric utility with which the applicant has had service within the past twenty-four (24) months that the applicant had no terminations for nonpayment within the most recent twenty-four (24) months in which he had service; or (3) The applicant has had city water or gas service at the same or some other address within the past twenty-four (24) months and had no terminations for nonpayment within the most recent twenty-four (24) months in which he had service. (d) Any customer who has had service terminated for nonpayment within the preceding twelve-month period, or who has had two (2) or more checks returned to the director of finance for insufficient funds' within the preceding twenty -four-month period, may be required to pay an additional deposit to reinitiate service. Such deposit shall not be greater than the sum of the two (2) highest monthly bills rendered in the past twelve (12) months for service at the location to be served. 'Cross references: Service charge on bad checks, § 11-8. (e) Any deposit may be applied by the director of finance to any delinquent balance due on the account for which the deposit was made. The director of finance may, and on application from the customer shall, refund any deposit if the account for which it was made has had no termination for nonpayment, and has not had two (2) or more bad checks received in payment, during the preceding twelve (12) months. Likewise, upon voluntary termination of service to an account, the deposit shall first • be applied to the balance due and the balance refunded to the customer. (f) The director of finance and city manager are authorized to enter into agreements with responsible organizations or individuals to provide for a guaranty of the account of individuals meeting established 6