1. The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, education, recreation or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a municipal water line, are hereby required, at their expense, to connect their facility with the proper municipal water line (in accordance with all municipal requirements) and pay all municipal fees and use charges therefor, within 30 days after the date of official municipal notice to do so; provided, that, the municipal water line is within 300 feet of the property line.
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to occupy any structure designed or built for human occupancy without an active water service to it.
b. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any structure, designed or built for human occupancy to allow the occupancy of that structure by any person unless there is active water service to the structure.
c. Active water service means water service to the structure itself and does not mean the temporary disruption of water service due to temporary repairs being made to the owner’s water line or the city’s water line.
2. It shall be hereinafter unlawful for any person to maintain or establish a private water well to serve a facility, unless said person shall first be connected to the municipal water system and pay the monthly water fees and charges; provided, that, said person also meets all the requirements for mandatory hook-up established in subsection 1. above.
3. No unauthorized person shall make any connections with any municipal water line without first having made application therefor to the City Clerk-Treasurer, and without first having paid the established fee.
4. Where a municipal water line does not lie within 300 feet of the property line, or is not scheduled to be placed within 300 feet of the property line in the near future (one to five years), an individual may utilize or establish a private water well without connection to the municipal water system and therefore, without payment of the municipal water system fees and charges.
5. The requirements of this section shall not apply to persons currently being served directly by an existing rural water district.
(Ord. 11-08, passed 6-13-2011)