(b) If the water board has entered into an agreement pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, it may accept credit cards as a means of payment of fees, rates, rent or other charges, as provided in any agreement entered into pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision and may pay such fees as are specified in such agreement to such financing agency or card issuer in consideration of the services rendered by such financing agency or card issuer thereunder; provided, however, that the water board may require any person offering a credit card as a means of payment of such fee, rate, rent or other charge to pay to the water board a reasonable administrative service fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the water board in connection with such credit card transaction, which costs shall include any fee payable by the water board to such financing agency or card issuer.

(c) The water board may promulgate any rules or regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.

(d) For purposes of this subdivision, the terms "card issuer", "credit card", "financing agency" and "person" shall have the same meaning as provided in subdivision (a) of section five of the general municipal law. 5. Such fees, rates, rents or other charges, if not paid when due, shall constitute a lien upon the premises served and a charge against the owners thereof, which lien and charge shall bear interest at the same rate as would unpaid taxes of the city. Such lien shall take precedence over all other liens or encumbrances, except taxes, and may be foreclosed against the lot or building served in the same manner as a lien for such taxes. The amount which remains due and unpaid for sixty days may, with interest thereon at the same rate as unpaid city taxes and with reasonable attorneys' fees, be recovered by the water board in a civil action in the name of the water board against such owners. The city, and any state agency shall be subject to the same fees, rates, rents or other charges under the same conditions as other users of such water system or sewerage system, or both, as the case may be. Tax exempt organizations shall be charged according to the provisions of chapter six hundred ninety-six of the laws of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, as amended by chapters eight hundred ninety-three and eight hundred ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty and by provisions which may by law extend the provisions of such chapters from time to time. Any agreement for the supply of water or sewerage services between the city or an agency thereof and any other municipality or water supply system, or any administrative determination by a state agency, or any other arrangement in this regard, in effect at the time the water board shall be established, shall remain in full force and effect and be binding upon the water board as if it were a party to such agreement, determination or other arrangement. All rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions provided by law with respect to the fixing of charges or rates for the supply of water or sewerage services to users outside the city, including but not limited to those set forth in article one of title K of chapter fifty-one of the administrative code of the city of New York and article eight of the environmental conservation law, shall be deemed to apply, as appropriate, to the water board established pursuant to this title. In addition to any other lawful enforcement methods and pursuant to rules and regulations of the water board promulgated pursuant to this title, the payment of fees, rates, rents or other charges for water service or sewerage service to any premises may be enforced by discontinuing the water service or sewerage service to such premises provided that such discontinuance or disconnection of any supply of water or the provision of sewerage service, or both, as the case may be, shall not be carried out except in the manner and upon the notice as is required of a water-works corporation pursuant to subdivisions three-a, three-b and three-c of section eighty-nine-b and section one hundred sixteen of the public service law. 6. The water board shall pay to the authority such amounts at such times and in such manner as may be provided in the agreement by and among the authority, the water board and the city consistent with the priorities set forth in such agreement. There is hereby created a lien, by this title made a statutory lien within the meaning of the uniform commercial code and any other state or federal law, upon the gross revenues of the water board, in favor of the payment of all amounts due pursuant to such agreement and in the order and priority set forth therein and which lien shall be a first lien upon such gross revenues. The gross revenues so subject to such statutory lien shall be and remain subject to such statutory lien until the payment in full of each such item in accordance with such priority. Said statutory lien shall not be construed to give any holder or owner of any bond of the authority power to compel the sale of any water system or sewerage system, as the case may be. 7. If there be any default by the water board in the making of the payments to the authority required under this section, as a result of the failure by the water board to impose sufficient fees, rates, rents or other charges, the authority may petition for the appointment by any court having jurisdiction in any proper action of a receiver to administer on behalf of the water board, under the direction of said court, the affairs of the water board in order to achieve system revenues at least sufficient to make such payments; and by and with the approval of said court, to establish, fix and revise, from time to time, fees, rates, rents or other charges at least sufficient therefor in conformity with this title, and the resolution or trust indenture of the authority providing for the issuance of its bonds and in accordance with such orders as the court shall make. 8. The water board shall prepare and transmit to the city on or before the first day of December in each year a list of those persons or property owners within such city who are in arrears in the payment of fees, rates, rents or other charges for a period of sixty days or more after the last day fixed for payment thereof without penalty. The list shall contain a brief description of the properties for which the services were provided, the names of the persons liable to pay for the same and the amounts chargeable to each, including penalties and interest computed to the next succeeding December thirty-first. The city shall levy such sums against the properties liable and shall state the amount thereof in a separate column in the annual tax rolls of such city under the name of "delinquent water charges" or "delinquent sewerage charges" or "delinquent water and sewerage charges" as may be appropriate and as may be directed by the water board. Such amounts, as and when collected by the commissioner of finance of the city, shall be paid over to the water board. All of the provisions of the tax laws of the state covering the enforcement and collection of unpaid taxes of the city shall apply to the collection of such unpaid fees, rates, rents or other charges. 9. Neither the public service commission, nor any city or state agency, shall have any jurisdiction over the water board or authority or any power over the regulation of the fees, rates, rents or other charges established, fixed or revised by the water board except with respect to the supply of water or sewerage services to users outside the city as provided in article one of title K of chapter fifty-one of the administrative code of the city of New York. 9-a. The water board shall hold public hearings, in each borough of the city of New York, prior to promulgating or fixing annual water and sewer rates for such city. Notice of such public hearing shall be conspicuously published in a newspaper of general circulation, within each borough, at least one week prior to the hearing.