(a) The Mayor is hereby authorized during times of water shortage in the City to issue an order restricting the use of water and the sprinkling of lawns. Such order may state the hours of the day or night when such sprinkling shall not be permitted. The order shall be given by proclamation signed by the Mayor.
(b) Such ban shall commence one hour after the first announcement by radio or television stations that such water shortage emergency has been declared. The emergency sprinkling ban shall remain in effect until cancelled by the Mayor or designee. The Mayor or designee, shall use reasonable means, including announcements by radio or television stations, to notify the public of the existence or cancellation of the emergency sprinkling ban set forth in this section, but no person shall be excused from compliance with this section on the grounds that he was not informed that such emergency sprinkling ban was in effect.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(A.O.; Ord. 153-2021. Passed 12-6-21.)