(A) Each prospective customer desiring water service will be required to sign the Department’s standard form of contract before service is supplied and shall pay a tapping fee as required in Attachment No. 2.
(B) Customers requiring the installation of special equipment by the Department may be required to sign a form of contract guaranteeing a minimum charge for such period of time as may be agreed upon between the Department and the customer.
(C) If, for any reason, the applicant, after signing contract for water service, does not take the service by reason of not occupying premises or otherwise, he or she shall reimburse the Department for the expense incurred by reason of its efforts to furnish such service.
(D) The receipt by the Department of a prospective customer’s application for service, regardless of whether or not accompanied by tap fee and deposit, shall not obligate the Department to render the service applied for. If the service applied for cannot be supplied in accordance with the Department’s rules, regulations and general practices, the liability of the Department to the applicant for such service shall be limited to the return of any tap fee and deposit made with, or payment of charges to, the Department by such applicant.
(E) Whenever an application is made for service to premises concerning which the Department knows there is a dispute as to the ownership or the right of occupancy, and one or more of the claimants attempts to prevent such service from being furnished, the Department reserves the right to adopt either one of the following two alternatives:
(1) To treat the applicant in actual possession of the premises to be served as being entitled to such service, irrespective of the rights or claims of other persons; or
(2) To withhold service, pending a judicial or other settlement of the rights of the various claimants.
(1994 Code, § 18-208) (Ord. 421, passed 12-18-1986; Ord. 423, passed 3-5-1987)