(a) The Mayor is hereby authorized to declare a ban on the use of water for sprinkling or other excessive uses during a time of water shortage or other emergency within the City water system.
(b) The Mayor shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the ban and the time that the ban shall become effective, which time shall be not sooner than one hour after the first announcement. Such announcement by the local press and radio and television stations shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of such a ban.
(c) No person shall allow, permit, suffer or cause the use of water contrary to the ban as established and declared by the Mayor after such person has received actual notice of the ban.
(Ord. 57-88. Passed 6-27-88; Ord. 121-22. Passed 11-14-22.)