8-1-6: IMPLEMENTATION OF MANDATORY COMPLIANCE CONSERVATION STAGES:
The City Public Works Department shall monitor the projected supply and demand for water within the City domestic water system and shall recommend to the City Manager the extent of the conservation requirements necessary. In order to ensure the water supply, the City Manager shall implement and/or terminate the particular Water Conservation Stage necessary. Thereafter, the City Manager may order that the appropriate phase or stage of conservation be implemented or terminated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Chapter. Said notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the City at least once prior to its effective date. Said Water Conservation Stage shall remain in full force and effect until such time as the City Manager finds or determines that the condition which generated the need for the declaration of the Water Conservation Stage in effect is no longer in existence. At that time, the City Manager shall terminate the prevailing Water Conservation Stage in effect with an effective date identified. (Ord. 487 N.S., 4-1-1991)