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CHAPTER 49
WATER AND WASTEWATER
ARTICLE I.
GENERAL.
Sec. 49-1.   Definitions.
Sec. 49-2.   Chapter enforcement.
ARTICLE II.
RATES, CHARGES AND COLLECTIONS.
Sec. 49-3.   Application for service; contents of application.
Sec. 49-4.   Security deposits; exemptions.
Sec. 49-5.   Use of security deposits.
Sec. 49-6.   Security deposit refunds.
Sec. 49-7.   Payments of fees for services; delinquency of charges; discontinuance or refusal of service; notice of discontinuance.
Sec. 49-8.   New application for premises with delinquent charges.
Sec. 49-9.   Meters required; meters to be read monthly; estimated charge; water leakage.
Sec. 49-10.   Collection regulations; payment substation and payment service contracts.
Sec. 49-11.   Waiver of substation security requirement.
Sec. 49-12.   Joint owners or users; liability for charges; transfer of accounts.
Sec. 49-13.   Water lien procedure.
Sec. 49-14.   Notice of water lien.
Sec. 49-15.   Notice of vacancy or transfer of property.
Sec. 49-16.   Permission of owner or customer to be secured before using water; use before filing application for service.
Sec. 49-17.   Director’s authority to contract; rates as consideration.
Sec. 49-18.1.   Rates for treated water service.
Sec. 49-18.2.   Rates for wastewater service.
Sec. 49-18.3.   General service: Separate billing.
Sec. 49-18.4.   Rates for wholesale water and wastewater service to governmental entities.
Sec. 49-18.5.   Rate for untreated water.
Sec. 49-18.6.   Fees for inspection and testing of meters and backflow prevention devices.
Sec. 49-18.7.   Service connection charges.
Sec. 49-18.8.   Security deposit amounts.
Sec. 49-18.9.   Charges for use of fire hydrants.
Sec. 49-18.10.   Special assessment rates; lot and acreage fees.
Sec. 49-18.11.   Evaluated cost tables for oversize, side, or off-site facilities.
Sec. 49-18.12.   Industrial surcharge rate formula for excessive concentrations.
Sec. 49-18.13.   Charges for transporters of septic tank waste.
Sec. 49-18.14.   Rates for development review activities.
Sec. 49-18.15.   Payment table.
Sec. 49-18.16.   Miscellaneous charges and provisions; rates where no charge specified.
Sec. 49-18.17.   Hydrostatic testing of water mains.
ARTICLE III.
WATER AND WASTEWATER GENERALLY.
Sec. 49-19.   Control of and access to systems; interference with access generally.
Sec. 49-20.   Emergency authority.
Sec. 49-21.   Adequacy of supply.
Sec. 49-21.1.   Conservation measures relating to lawn and landscape irrigation.
Sec. 49-22.   Temporary discontinuance for construction, maintenance or emergency reasons.
Sec. 49-23.   Authorized employees; right of access of employees for inspection and maintenance; access of contractors.
Sec. 49-24.   Service connections.
Sec. 49-25.   Cross connections; location of water and sewer mains.
Sec. 49-26.   Fire protection systems.
Sec. 49-27.   Fire hydrants.
Sec. 49-28.   Water storage tanks and pumping equipment.
Sec. 49-29.   Backflow prevention devices.
Sec. 49-30.   Private water mains or systems.
Sec. 49-31.   Vending water.
Sec. 49-32.   Wastewater indemnity agreements.
Sec. 49-33.   Exposing meters or hydrants to damage; notice of work affecting systems; moving meters or hydrants.
Sec. 49-34.   Communicating electricity to pipes.
Sec. 49-35.   Water used for construction work.
Sec. 49-36.   Reserved.
Sec. 49-37.   Tampering with or damaging systems; unlawful use of water; prima facie evidence.
Sec. 49-38.   Rights as to certain facilities outside of the city; rights upon annexation.
Sec. 49-39.   Right to construction mains outside the city.
Sec. 49-40.   Service outside the city.
ARTICLE IV.
WATER QUALITY.
Sec. 49-41.   Purpose and policy.
Sec. 49-42.   Enforcement.
Sec. 49-43.   Certain wastes prohibited in the wastewater system.
Sec. 49-44.   Waste disposal through vehicles, grease traps/interceptors, or other means.
Sec. 49-45.   Right of entry of federal, state, and city employees.
Sec. 49-46.   Permits required for discharge of industrial waste; applications; exemptions.
Sec. 49-47.   Denial, suspension, or revocation of permits; amending permits.
Sec. 49-48.   Pretreatment and disposal.
Sec. 49-49.   Industrial surcharge for excessive concentrations; sampling fees.
Sec. 49-50.   Estimated industrial surcharge for class group.
Sec. 49-51.   Reporting requirements.
Sec. 49-52.   Recordkeeping.
Sec. 49-53.   Publication of industrial users in significant noncompliance.
Sec. 49-54.   Regulation of wastes from other jurisdictions.
Sec. 49-55.   Extrajurisdictional users.
Sec. 49-55.1.   Inspection chambers.
Sec. 49-55.2.   Measurement of waste volume.
Sec. 49-55.3.   Inspection and sampling.
Sec. 49-55.4.   Confidentiality.
Sec. 49-55.5.   Waste management operators.
Sec. 49-55.6.   Pollution of water in reservoirs.
Sec. 49-55.7.   Deposit or discharge of certain material into wastewater system or storm-sewer.
ARTICLE V.
DEVELOPMENT AND SYSTEM EXTENSIONS.
Sec. 49-56.   Authority to make capital improvements; special assessments; lot and acreage fees.
Sec. 49-57.   Reserved.
Sec. 49-58.   Reserved.
Sec. 49-59.   Replacement of substandard mains.
Sec. 49-60.   General rules for extensions by developers.
Sec. 49-61.   Construction of developer extensions.
Sec. 49-62.   Rules regarding the construction and cost of new mains in a development.
Sec. 49-63.   Certain existing mains exempt.