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(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Note: Former Section 535.22 was repealed by Ord.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)
(a) No person shall use any hydrant for construction or other purposes without first obtaining a permit for such use from the Commissioner of Water. Such permit shall be charged under Section 535.06 of the Codified Ordinances.
(b) All hydrants used for any construction purpose, such as sewers, buildings, paving, etc., must have reducing couplings attached to the nozzles of the hydrants, with an independent valve for regulating the supply.
(c) The main valve of the hydrant must be opened full at the beginning of work each day, and remain open until the stoppage of work at night. The water supply shall be regulated by the independent valve. The hydrant shall be operated only by a proper hydrant key, which shall be obtained from the Division of Water.
(d) Water must not be allowed to run except when used. No leaking hose, pipe or joints shall be permitted. All persons using hydrants shall immediately obey any instructions or orders that may be issued by the Commissioner of Water, or his or her authorized agents, to regulate the use of these hydrants.
(e) In case of failure to comply with the requirements of the Division, the water supply shall be stopped immediately, the hydrant permit revoked and no new permits for the use of any hydrant shall be issued until all damages or charges for the waste of water have been paid.
(f) If required by the Commissioner, a meter shall be applied to the connection made with the hydrant, at the expense of the party using the same and the party shall pay for all water by meter measure.
(Ord. No. 778-06. Passed 6-5-06, eff. 6-9-06)
Each direct service municipality shall pay an annual fee, in advance, for the use of water from fire hydrants located in the municipality, for a purpose other than the extinguishment of a fire. The annual fee per hydrant shall be calculated as of January 1 of each year by multiplying one-half (1/2) mcf (five hundred (500) cf) by the highest rate then authorized to be charged to a direct service customer located in the service district in which such hydrant is located.
A certified statement of the number of fire hydrants located in each service district in the municipality on January 1 of each year shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the Division of Water by an officer of each municipality on or before January 10 of each year. The total annual fee shall be paid by each direct service municipality on or before January 20 of each year.
(Ord. No. 2457-82. Passed 12-13-82, eff. 12-16-82)
The Commissioner of Water may make such abatement as seems to him or her right and proper in the case of excess consumption because of a leak or other event, where it does not appear that the owner or user could be reasonably expected to know of or prevent the leak or event and to have had a fair chance to repair the same. The final billed amount after reduction granted by the Commissioner shall not be less than the average consumption for the property prior to the leak or other event, unless otherwise determined by the Commissioner with the approval of the Director of Law.
The authority vested in the Commissioner to make abatement shall be without prejudice to and not in derogation of the power and authority of the Director of Law conferred by Section 125.03.
(Ord. No. 1158-14. Passed 6-6-16, eff. 6-7-16)
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