(A) The city shall pay the cost of tapping the main, installing the meter and providing fixtures and labor up to and including the stop box at the lot line of the customer. No person other than the Manager or his or her duly authorized agent shall tap the water main. The customer shall pay a tap fee in the sum as the Board of Public Works shall require in each case; provided that, a tap for a three-quarter-inch pipe shall be deemed to be the minimum or base tap fee. The customer shall, at his or her own expense, bring water service from the stop box and upon his or her own premise and shall employ a licensed plumber who shall install water service to the place of disbursement. Nonresidents shall pay tap fees and installation charges in sums as the Manager, pursuant to resolution of the Board of Public Works, shall in each case fix. The extension of commercial mains into unsupplied territory within the corporate limits may be made by means of water extension districts. If the creation of a Water Extension District is not feasible or practical, the applicant shall be supplied with water service on the basis as the Board of Public Works shall determine.
(B) No applicant shall be entitled to water service on any plan or basis which contemplates that the city shall extend its present commercial mains at city expense. If, in the sound discretion of the City Council, it is neither feasible or practical to create a Water Extension District, applicants may upon resolution duly passed by the Board of Public Works be permitted and allowed to connect with the nearest commercial main. The applicant may, under the supervision of the Manager, install a water main in the unsupplied territory, using the streets and alleys of the city, and shall pay for water service furnished at the same rate as other customers for similar service; provided, pursuant to the resolution permitting and allowing the residents to connect with the city mains, the same shall be built and, constructed under the terms, specifications and conditions as may be agreed upon by written contract, executed by and between the owners and the city. Among other things, the contract shall provide that the city shall repay the owners or applicants the expense of constructing the water main in water service supplied to the owners or applicant, but in no event exceeding the necessary, original cost of construction of the mains.
(C) When the city shall have entered into the contract and the water is supplied to the applicants, it shall be the duty of the Manager to keep, or cause to be kept, a separate account of all water rents collected from the owners or applicants and the same shall be deposited with and kept by the City Treasurer as a separate fund for each owner or applicant and shall only be drawn upon, from time to time, by claims filed to reimburse the owners or applicants for moneys expended by them in constructing the water extension mains. Whenever rentals for water supplied under the contracts shall be collected in a sum equal to the amount expended by the private individuals and shall have been credited to the parties entitled thereto, the mains extended in the public streets and alleys shall become the property of the Water Department of the city.
(Prior Code, § 3-709)