660.19 WATER USE EMERGENCY.

   (a)   The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to proclaim a water use emergency throughout all or any part of the City of Beachwood, Ohio when a water supply shortage notice has been issued by the City of Cleveland.

   (b)   Such water use emergency proclamation shall specify the geographic area affected, the length of time the emergency shall be in effect, which time shall not exceed seven days (7), and the degree of water use curtailment.

   (c)   During a water use emergency, the Mayor may order a water use curtailment by prohibiting unnecessary use or consumption of water during all or specified hours of the day and/or may order that specified premises curtail necessary use or consumption of water on specified days only as the Mayor shall determine to be necessary.

   (d)   Unnecessary use or consumption means the use or consumption of water for purposes other than personal health, safety, sanitation, and bodily consumption.  "Unnecessary use of consumption" of waters includes but is not limited to sprinkling or watering lawns, other land irrigation, the washing of automobiles, houses or other structures and the use of water for recreational purposes such as the maintenance of swimming pools.  The use of water for private construction such as the mixing and curing of concrete, the puddling of backfill in excavations, the moistening of masonry walls preparatory to pointing or sealing, and other similar uses is not an unnecessary use or consumption of water.  The use of water to scrub and rinse areas such as hard-surface drives, garage floors, patios, and similar uses where necessary for the purpose of sanitation and the protection of health is not an unnecessary use or consumption of water.

   (e)   A proclamation of water use emergency shall become effective at the time of issuance by the Mayor.  Notice thereof shall be given to a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Beachwood, Ohio and shall be reported to a local radio and television station for broadcast.

   (f)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).  Whoever violates this section having been previously convicted of a violation of the section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days (60), or both.  A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation of noncompliance occurs or continues.

(Ord. 2017-91.  Passed 8-14-17.)