(A) Every person or persons, firm or corporation or other business entity, whether public or private, that sells or supplies utility services within the city limits, including, but not limited to, water, electricity or gas, but excepting telephone service, shall not commence such service, nor initiate providing such service, to any dwelling, or to any portion thereof, to any person or party unless the person or party intending to occupy same has presented to the said utility supplier or provider an occupancy permit or temporary permit to owner/agent wherein the signature of the appropriate city official is affixed thereto and his or her seal is imprinted thereon.
(B) This section shall not apply to any occupancy wherein the occupant is seeking restoration of utility service subsequent to a discontinuance or disconnection of same or where the occupant is seeking additional services at the same dwelling.
(1960 Code, § 33-2-10) (Ord. 5704, passed 3-17-1997) Penalty, see § 154.99