(A) The Utility shall inspect each service line installed by a plumber, contractor, or individual, for proper materials and depth of the service before the service trench is backfilled. However, the quality of material and workmanship shall be the customer’s responsibility and must conform to applicable plumbing codes and standards.
(B) The Utility’s authorized representative shall have the right to enter upon the premises of the customer at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting or testing cross-connection protective devices, atmospheric tank installations, booster pump-vacuum breaker-type valves, general plumbing, as well as meter readings, inspection, repairs, testing, removal, replacements, and relocation in connection with the water service. Failure to provide or allow access for the Utility to the customer premises for the herein stated purposes, after written notice of the intent to inspect, shall be cause for discontinuance of water service.
(C) The Utility’s authorized representative shall have the right to enter upon the premises of any customer with a secondary water supply system to insure that no connection exists between the customer’s secondary supply and the Utility’s water supply system. The presence of any connection of a secondary water supply to the Utility’s water system shall be cause for the immediate discontinuance of water supply services from the Utility to the customer and services will not be restored until the connection is eliminated or acceptable cross-connection/backflow prevention appurtenances are properly installed, at the customer’s expense and approval by the Superintendent.
(Ord. 1627, passed 7-5-16)