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Water service may be terminated at any premises where any water or waste water bill remains unpaid after the date payment is due, subject to the following:
(a) The Division of Water shall send to the account holder a notice of termination of service at least fifteen (15) days prior to such termination;
(b) Where the Division of Water has reason to believe that the premises where service is to be terminated is occupied by residential tenants, the Division shall provide at least thirty (30) days' notice to any such tenants by mail or by posting a notice of termination on all accessible building entrances and, where possible, at the door of each dwelling unit. The notice shall inform the tenants of the remedies available to them under Section 535.14 of this chapter.
Except as provided in Section 535.14, water service at a premises terminated for nonpayment shall not be restored until all charges due and payable have been paid, whether or not there has been in the meantime a change of ownership or possession of the premises supplied.
(Ord. No. 565-13. Passed 5-13-13, eff. 5-16-13)
(a) Whenever any premises have their own water supply but in addition service connections extend from the mains in the street into such premises for use only in case of failure or insufficiency of their own supply, the same minimum semi-annual payments shall be made for such service connections as are established by Sections 535.04 and 535.05.
(b) Such payments shall be required whether the connection is on or off and shall cease to be required only when and if the connection with the City’s main has been cut and plugged.
(Ord. No. 99566. Passed 5-22-33)
Water shall be furnished to an unmetered fire protection service connection only for fire protection, testing and maintenance purposes. A charge shall be made for each unmetered fire supply connection within the limits of the City and direct service suburbs. The charge shall be determined by the size of the fire supply connection through which water passes for use on the premises so supplied at the rate for unmetered fire line service under Section 535.06(p) of the Codified Ordinances. Unauthorized water use through unmetered fire protection service connections shall be billed and charged at the additional MCF rate in the applicable service district. Additional penalties and charges based on consumption may be charged for unauthorized uses of an unmetered fire protection service connection.
Charges shall be collected monthly or quarterly for each fire supply connection to cover inspection, testing, sealing and resealing of such service connections, stand-by pumpage capacity, and replacement or cleaning of distribution or trunk water mains to improve the water supply for fire protection purposes.
(Ord. No. 462-11. Passed 5-23-11, eff. 6-22-11)
The Director of Public Utilities is authorized to provide for the disinfection of water mains by chlorination or flushing, including sampling. The charges associated with the work shall be under Section 535.06 of the Codified Ordinances.
(Ord. No. 778-06, § 4. Passed 6-5-06, eff. 6-9-06)
Note: Former Section 535.22 was repealed by Ord. No. 1593-87, passed 9-14-87, eff. 9-18-87.
Whenever the Division of Water installs a water main less than twenty (20) inches in diameter within the corporate limits of a municipal customer, and the main is designated to be a restricted main, the Division of Water shall have the right to restrict the use of the main so that it would not be permitted to be tapped for service connections or connecting water mains. The Division of Water shall have the right to allow service connections to be tapped to the main, and shall have the right to condition the permission on the payment of a tap-in charge representing a fair portion of the Division of Water’s cost of installation of the main.
(Ord. No. 347-08. Passed 6-2-08, eff. 6-6-08)
(a) In addition to other charges, if water is used from a public fire hydrant, upon special permit only, a charge for the permit and a hydrant rental must be paid in advance under Section 535.06 of the Codified Ordinances. A separate permit shall be issued for each hydrant which shall identify its location.
(b) Water may be furnished from a fire hydrant for any special purpose authorized by the Commissioner of the Division of Water. The charge for water so furnished shall be at the additional MCF rate under Section 535.04 for the service district in which the fire hydrant is located. The quantity of water used may be estimated by the Commissioner based on information provided by the user as to the user’s purpose and needs, or the Commissioner may require the installation of a meter at the connection to the hydrant to be used, in which event the user shall pay the cost of installing the meter and the cost of all water measured.
(Ord. No. 462-11. Passed 5-23-11, eff. 6-22-11)
All water for building or construction purposes, whether public or private, shall be paid for under Sections 535.04 and 535.06 of the Codified Ordinances. In the case of water to be used for building purposes, the Director of Building and Housing, before granting any permit to erect, repair, change or alter any building or structure, shall first require the owner of the building to pay in advance an amount as is justly chargeable for water to be used in erecting, repairing, changing or altering such building or structure, and on the refusal of the owner to pay the charges in advance, the Director shall refuse to grant the permit. Charges shall be based on estimates of the amount of masonry, walls, plastering and other work for which water is used in construction, computed according to the accepted rules of the Division of Water. If desired by the property owner or contractor, water for building or construction purposes may be taken through a meter, furnished and set at the expense of the owner or contractor, and paid for at the rate set forth in Sections 535.04 and 535.06 of the Codified Ordinances. However, the advance payment for water in any case shall be made, as previously stated, and if the supply of water is taken entirely through a meter, the charge shall be adjusted under the amount registered by the meter, and the excess of the advance payment, if any, shall be refunded on the completion of the work.
(Ord. No. 778-06. Passed 6-5-06, eff. 6-9-06)
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