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The Safety-Service Director and the Belpre City Auditor jointly may, between January 1st and March 31st of each year hereafter, make an additional annual adjustment of the above water rates, without further legislation or approval by City Council in an amount necessary to anticipate the revenue necessary to meet the following year’s income requirements to operate the Water Department, based upon the income and expenses of the previous year. If the position of Safety-Service Director is vacant between January 1st and March 31st of any calendar year, the Mayor of the City of Belpre may joint with the Belpre City Auditor to make an annual adjustment to water rates.
Such additional rate increases, however, may be no more than four percent (4%) from the previous year. The Safety-Service Director, or the Mayor in the absence of a Safety-Service Director, with Belpre Auditor, shall advise Council in writing of the date and amount of any adjustment made pursuant to this provision.
(Ord. 4(2024-25). Passed 3-25-24.)
(a) No person shall tamper with a water meter attached to the City of Belpre’s water system.
(b) As used in this section, tamper means to open, close, adjust, or interfere with a water meter without the expressed consent of the City of Belpre’s Water Department, the Safety- Service Director, or the City Auditor or any of their authorized agents or representatives.
(c) As used in this section, tamper shall also include the reconnection of any water service that has been disconnected by the City of Belpre’s Water Department by anyone other than personnel employed by the City of Belpre’s Water Department.
(d) As used in this section, tamper shall include breaking a shut-off seal installed by the City of Belpre’s Water Department by anyone other than personnel employed by the City of Belpre’s Water Department.
(e) In a prosecution under this section, proof that a water meter that has been disconnected by the City of Belpre’s Water Department has been reconnected by anyone other than personnel employed by the City of Belpre’s Water Department shall be prima facie evidence that the person in possession of the premises served by that water meter has caused the illegal reconnection to be made.
(f) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, which is punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) and by a jail term not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days.
(Ord. 17(2006-07). Passed 5-14-07.)
The Ohio Administrative Code Section 3745-95-07 shall be adopted by the City of Belpre as follows:
(a) No person shall install or maintain a cross connection to any premises where a booster pump has been installed, unless an approved method is in place and is operational to maintain a minimum suction pressure as prescribed in the following:
(1) For booster pumps not intended to be used for fire suppression, no person shall install or maintain a cross connection to any premises where a booster pump has been installed unless such booster pump is equipped with a low pressure cut-off designed to shut-off the booster pump when the pressure in the service line on the suction side of the pump drops to ten pounds per square inch gauge or less.
(2) For booster pumps used for fire suppression, also referred to as fire pumps, no person shall install or maintain a cross connection to any premises where a fire pump has been installed on the service line to or within such premises, unless the pump is equipped with one of the following:
A. A low suction throttling valve which is a pilot-operated valve installed in the discharge piping that maintains positive pressure in the suction piping, while monitoring pressure in the suction piping through a sensing line. The valve shall throttle the discharge of the pump when necessary so that suction pressure will not be reduced below ten pounds per square inch gauge while the pump is operating.
B. A variable speed suction limiting control which is a speed control system used to maintain a minimum positive suction pressure at the pump inlet by reducing the pump driver speed while monitoring pressure in the suction piping.
(b) The water consumer shall maintain the low pressure cut-off device, the low suction throttling valve, or the variable speed suction limiting control in proper working order and certify to the supplier of water, at least once every twelve months that the minimum suction pressure sustaining method is operable and maintained in continuous operation.
(c) The supplier of water shall maintain electronic or paper records of inventory of booster pump installations. Electronic or paper records certifying operation shall be retained for a period of five years.
(d) The provisions of this rule shall be followed notwithstanding inconsistent provisions in the "Great Lakes-Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers' Recommended Standards for Water Works."
(e) Any land owner found in violation of these rules and regulations shall be notified of the violation and permitted thirty (30) days to correct the violation. Any land owner failing to comply after thirty (30) days shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day.
(Ord. 12(2022-23). Passed 8-14-23.)
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