(a) Emergencies: During any period when the overall demand upon the Village water supply system is so great as to endanger the public health, safety and welfare, the Village President is authorized to declare an emergency and to issue emergency water conservation regulations, limiting and prohibiting the use of water from the Village water mains for use in air conditioning, sprinkling, watering or irrigating shrubbery, trees, lawns, grass, ground covers, vines, gardens, vegetables, flowers or for any other purpose. When the Village President declares such an emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person to violate any such regulations.
(b) Lawn Sprinkling Restrictions:
(1) Between May 15 and September 15 of each year it shall be unlawful for any person to use or any owner to allow the use of any water from the Village water mains for the purpose of unrestricted lawn sprinkling except during the time periods provided below:
(A) Unrestricted lawn sprinkling shall be permitted only between the hours of twelve o'clock (12:00) midnight and twelve o'clock (12:00) noon and six o'clock (6:00) P.M. and twelve o'clock (12:00) midnight on odd calendar days for those parcels of property with street addresses ending with an odd number and on even calendar days for those parcels of property with street addresses ending with an even number. Any parcel of property covering an area that includes multiple street addresses shall utilize the street address on the Village water bills for purposes of determining the days on which such water use is permitted.
(B) Newly sodded areas of lawns may be watered at any time on any day for the two (2) week period following the installation of such sod.
(2) Any person or property owner violating any provision hereof shall be fined not less than twenty five dollars ($25.00) for each offense occurring on residential property and not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense occurring on nonresidential property.
(c) WaterSense Plumbing Fixtures: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained within this chapter or within the Plumbing Code of the Village of Deerfield, and subject to the Illinois Plumbing Code (77 Illinois Administrative Code 890) and the Lawn Irrigation Contractor and Lawn Sprinkler System Registration Code (77 Illinois Administrative Code 892), all new plumbing fixtures and irrigation controllers installed after the effective date of this section shall bear the WaterSense label as designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency WaterSense Program when such labeled fixtures are available. (Ord. 0-16-7, 3-7-2016)