(A) Utilities may be cut off.
(1) Utilities may be cut off and service discontinued for any of the following reasons:
(a) violation of any ordinance, provision relating to a municipal utility, or violation of any ordinance provision or any provision of a code adopted by reference relating to water and sanitary plumbing or electrical installations;
(b) Any act or omission in regard to the water system or sanitary sewer system, the use of water, or the disposal of liquid wastes which jeopardizes the public health or safety, creates a public nuisance, or interferes with the rights of others; or
(c) Failure to pay a utility bill or other proper charge made in connection with a municipal utility system by the time specified by ordinance.
(2) A particular service may be cut off for any act or omission in regard to the abuse of another system or service which jeopardizes the public health or safety, creates a public nuisance, or interferes with the rights of others.
(3) The town reserves the right to cut off or reduce any utility or service to any customer when necessary to conserve water, protect life or property, or repair or improve the system.
(4) In case of emergency caused by a water shortage in the municipal water system, it shall be the duty of the Town Board of Trustees to immediately give notice by publication to the system’s water consumers not to use water obtained from the system for any purpose other than for strictly domestic use and such other use as the Town Board may designate so long as the water shortage lasts. Therefore, and until the governing body declares the emergency at an end, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation during such emergency to use water obtained from the municipal water system for any purpose other than strictly domestic use and such other uses as the Town Board may have designated.
(Prior Code, § 20-8)
(B) Turning utilities on again. When a customer’s utility service has been cut off because of delinquency or act or omission of the customer, it may be turned on again only when all charges have been paid or other change in the conditions justify it. Charges shall be determined by Board action and posted at Town Hall.
(Prior Code, § 20-9) Penalty, see § 50.99