(A) If the Department discovers that a customer has not installed a required backflow assembly or that a backflow assembly has been improperly tested or maintained, bypassed or removed, or that an unprotected cross-connection exists in the customer’s water system, the water service to that service connection shall be disconnected if the situation is not remedied within the time specified in the notice sent to the customer as required by this section. The service shall not be restored until the condition is remedied.
(B) Water service to a fire sprinkler system shall not be subject to disconnection under this section. If a situation, which would otherwise result in discontinuance of water service in division (A) of this section, is not remedied within the time provided in the notice sent to the customer, multiple violations will accrue for each day the violation continues.
(C) Prior to disconnecting any water service because a condition set forth in division (A) of this section exists, the Department shall issue a notice to the customer describing the condition and notifying the customer that the condition must be remedied within 45 days from the initial inspection date. If there is no immediate action on the part of the customer, a second notice will be sent 30 days after the initial inspection date stating that water service will be disconnected within 15 days of the second notice. If there is still no action, a turn off notice shall be sent to the customer stating that service will be disconnected on date certain (approximately seven days from the date of the turn off notice). For retrofit notification procedures, see § 50.134.
(Prior Code, § 14-10-12)