Access at reasonable hours to a customer's premises by authorized employees of the utility shall be deemed to have been granted to the utility by the customer during the time the customer accepts municipal utility service for the purpose of reading meters, testing, repairing, removing or exchanging any or all equipment belonging to the utility, examining pipes and fixtures and the manner the water is used, or for the purpose of ensuring that a customer is in compliance with these rules and regulations. All persons must at all times frankly and without concealment answer all questions put to them by said party relative to the consumption of water. Access shall also be granted to employees of the utility to cut off the water supply in absence of an outside shutoff valve. If access is denied the utility reserves the right to install a shutoff valve and shut the water off. (Ord. 04-01, 2-10-2004)