(A) The Department shall have the right to discontinue service or to refuse to connect service for a violation of or failure to comply with any provisions of these rules and regulations and the applicable schedule of rates and charges. Such right to discontinue service shall apply to all service rendered through a single meter, even though more than one consumer or tenant is furnished therefrom, and even though a delinquency or violation is limited to only one such consumer or tenant.
(B) Discontinuance of service by the Department for any cause stated in these rules and regulations shall not release the customer from liability for payment for service already received or from liability from payments that thereafter become due under the minimum bill provisions or other provisions of the customer’s contract.
(C) The Department shall have the right to refuse to render service to any applicant whenever the applicant or any member of the household, company or firm to which such service is to be furnished, is in default in the payment of any obligations to the Department or has previously had his or her service discontinued because of a violation of the rules and regulations of the Board.
(D) If the Department should, for any reason, begin to render service to an applicant to whom the Department has a good and valid reason for refusing to render such service, the Department shall have the right to discontinue such service at any time within one year after such service has begun, even though such customer does nothing to justify the discontinuance of service during the time such service is being rendered.
(1994 Code, § 18-218) (Ord. 421, passed 12-18-1986; Ord. 423, passed 3-5-1987)