Ordinance 4085 - Laserfiche WebLink

Department may install a meter in the service line to a premises served under fixed rate and thereafter charge for the water consumed at the applicable metered rate. Section 35: Customer's Frozen Pipe - Responsibility. It shall be the customer's responsibility to protect from freezing all piping, fixtures and appurtenances on his side of the service cock or meter. Any damage resulting from freezing shall be considered the responsibility of the customer and no adjustment shall be made in the water billing by reason of such freezing. Section 36: No Shut Off Notice Required - Liability. The Water Department shall have the right to shut off or turn on the water from its mains and services at any time, without notice, for repairs, construction, reconstruc- tion, maintenance, operation and other purposes, without liability for injury to persons or damage to property of its customers and others. The Water Department will endeavor to notify customers where practicable but shall not accept responsibility nor liability for injury to persons or the safety of boilers, hot water tanks, appliances or other property on the premises of any water consumer. Section 37: Right to Impose Water Use Restrictions - Penalty. The Water Department shall have the right to forbid and/or establish certain speci- fied hours for lawn and garden sprinkling and other nonessential uses of water within the whole or specified parts of the City when there is an actual or impending water shortage, extreme pressure loss in the distribution system or for any other reasonable cause. The Water Department may at any time determine such rules and/or restrictions to be necessary and after reasonable notification thereof may enforce same. Upon the violation of any such rule and/or restriction, the water may be shut off to the premises of the violator without notice and shall not be turned on again until the owner or occupant of the premises shall have agreed to comply with such rules and/or restrictions and shall have paid to the Water Department a penalty charge of Three Dollars -17-