All corporations, stop and water cocks, goose necks, and all service and stop boxes shall be of the kind and pattern prescribed by the city. All service pipes must be laid as much below the surface of the ground as the main pipes in the street and, in all cases, protected so as to prevent rupture from freezing. All service pipes leading from the main to any premises or pipes leading from such service pipes to any part of the premises and up to the meters shall be of one-inch extra heavy material. Before any pipes are attached to the main or any service pipes leading to any part of the premises where the water is to be used, the same shall be inspected by the Superintendent or proper employee of the Waterworks Department, and he or she shall have the absolute right to refuse to allow any such pipes to be connected to said main or service pipes or other pipe connected thereto if they deem the same unfit for the use for which the same is to be put.
(Prior Code, § 11.0107)