You are billed with a monthly account by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality for services supplied/ rendered to your property. This means that levies or charges in respect of the following Municipal Services and Taxes:

• Electricity and water consumption;
• Refuse removal;
• Sewerage services;
• Rates and Taxes;
• Interest;
• Miscellaneous; and
• Sundry charges.
• What you will be charged for depends on whether you are an owner or tenant on the property.

• You are welcome to contact the Customer Care Center in person,telephonically or by facsimile.Please remember to include your account number.
• If you chosse to speak to someone in person or over the telephone, kindly ensure that you record that person's name. This will be of assistance should you need to follow up on your enquiry.

• Make sure you have recorded the name of the staff member with whom you dealt.
• Ask to speak to that person's supervisor.
• If you are still unhappy with the service, make your complaint to the Customer Care Center (CCC) Manager . The name and contact details of the CCC Manager is displayed in the payment halls.

• The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) make every effort to print accurate statements and have them posted timeously.
• If the due date is near and you have not yet received your statement, kindly request a copy from the nearest Customer Care Center.
• If you fail to pay your account on time, you will be liable for credit control action even if you have not received your account.
• The onus is on the consumer to request a duplicate statement.

• Your meter is read each month. If the meter reader is unable to gain access to your meter to read it (e.g. dogs, gate locked), he may record an estimated reading.
• When a proper reading is taken and the estimated figure is found to be lower than the actual reading, your account will be higher due to the amount you were under charged for when the meter could not be read.
• On the other hand, if it is found, after a proper reading, that the estimated figure was higher your account will be lower as a result of the amount you were overcharged during the unread period.
• Continuous no access to the meter may result in additional costs to the owner.

Yes, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) operates a customer friendly Credit Control Policy to assist consumers in making arrangements to pay off monies owed to Council

In the event that an arrangement has been broken, all arrear arrangement instalments plus the current monthly account has to be paid before the arrangement is reinstated. If the required payments are not made, debt collection action will be instituted immediately, which can include the following:

• Disconnection of electricity supply.
• Restriction or disconnection of water supply.
• Blocked from buying electricity on the prepayment system.
• Legal proceedings to collect arrears.

• Visit the Enquiries Counter at the nearest Customer Care Centre and collect the necessary User Agreement Application documentation..
• The form includes a Service Agreement that must be signed by the prospective consumer before the supply will be commenced.
• You will need to pay a deposit fee, the amount of which will be communicated to you when you apply for services.
• Ensure that identification documentation is available at all times.
• If not registered owner of property, letter of authority to open services account from owner will be required.
• You should receive your first account within approximately six (6) weeks

• Visit the Enquiries Counter at the nearest Customer Care Centre and collect necessary Termination of Services documentation.
• Property physical address, stand number, Identity documentation, account number and date on which services must be terminated must be supplied.
• Take note that services (Water, Sewer and Electricity) are billed in arrears and you may still receive one or two active accounts after you have disconnected services.
• Your account will be credited with the deposit paid when applying for Connection of Services.

Communicate with the transferring Attorney, as any balance due will be paid over to him/ her.

Yes, depending on you applicable tariff

• The free portion of the water will automatically be credited against the monthly account.
• The free protion of the electricity will automatically be credited against the monthly account.
• You need to collect your prepayment electricity from your Customer Care Center for you free token.
• If you don't collect the token for that particular month, it will be forfeited for that month.

• Should an account not be paid by due date, credit control measures will apply.
• If the consumer uses the conventional type electricity meter, the supply to that property may be suspended until the arrears and penalty fees have been paid in full, or a suitable arrangement to settle the balance has been made.
• If the consumer uses a prepayment type electricity meter, future sales will be blocked through vending system until all arrears have been paid in full, or a suitable arrangement to settle the balance has been made.
• Legal action will be instituted should the above mentioned measures fail to recover the arrears.
• Water may be restricted.

• Contact the relevant Customer Care Center (CCC) to find out what amount is owed as well as what the reconnection fee is.
• Make these payments, or an arrangement to pay, and take the receipt/ arrangement to the relevant CCC to arrange for the Connection of Services.

Visit an Attorney, or debt collector, and make arrangement to settle your account.

• Any action resulting in the breaking of a seal, the opening, adjustment or removal of a meter, bypassing the meter, opening of a meter box or interfering with the meter or Municipal wiring, piping or other installations in any matter constitutes tampering.
• Only authorized Municipal personnel/ contractors are permitted to work on meters, Municipal installations (e.g. transformers) and Municipal wiring and piping.
• Severe penalties will be imposed on any person found to have commited tampering.
• Tampering constitutes fraud and may result in criminal charges.

• Obtain as much information from the person as possible.
• Telephone the relevant Customer Care Center for advice.
• Do not allow anyone to tamper or interfere with your meter, pipes or cables leading to the meter.
• You will be held liable should your meter be found to be tampared with.

• One opf the easiest ways to check if you have a leak on your propery is to make sure that all taps are closed and to then take the reading on your water meter. If after approximately 30 minutes later the meter reading has changed and your taps are all still shut, there is definitely a leak.
• Look out for any damp areas on the ground or on the walls where your water pipes are located.
• Make sure that the geyser is not overflowing by checking the overflow pipe, which is situated in the roof.
• Check the cistern of toilets to ensure that the rubber seal is effective and water does not continually run into the bowl.
• If a hissing sound can be heard from the water pipes where no taps are running, there is probably a leak.
• Make sure that no taps are leaking - a dripping tap can waste more that 200 liters of water per day, or about 6.5 kiloliters a month.

• The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) maintains and repairs the water mains up to the water meter. All piping from the meter onto private property is the responsibility of the owner or tenant, depending on the lease agreement.
• If a leak occurs on the property, a registered plumbing contractor should be called to fix the problem.
• It is in your best interest to have a leak repaired immediatly as the leak will push your water consumption up and you will be charged at a higher rate.
• Water use is billed according to and increasing sliding scale tariff. In effect this means that the more you use due to the leak, the more you pay.
• Should a burst pipe or leak occur on a roadway or pavement, it must be reported to the Municipality as soon as possible.
• It is illegal for a consumer or private contractor to tamper with a water meter.

Yes, the account will be recalculated if the following criteria are met:

• The leak must be repaired immediatly.
• A letter from a registered plumber must be submitted.
• The excess charges will be recalculated in terms of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Policy.