§ 35-11 PERMIT REQUIRED TO TURN WATER ON OR OFF AT STREET; EXCEPTION.

   No plumber or any other person shall turn water on or off from the street stopcock without a written permit first being obtained from the city water department, except only in case of repairs to the plumbing system through which the city water is used.

(1964 Code, § 37-9)

Cross-reference:

   Licenses and miscellaneous business regulations, see Ch. 20

§ 35-12 SUPPLYING WATER FOR USE ON OTHER PREMISES.

   No consumer shall supply water to other persons or to other families or suffer them to take it, except for use on the premises, without the permission of the director of the water department.

(1964 Code, § 37-10)

§ 35-13 UNLAWFUL EXTENSION OF WATER AND SEWER LINES.

   After water or sewerage service lines are introduced into a building or upon any premises, the same shall not be extended by any plumber or any other person to any other premises for additional fixtures.

(1964 Code, § 37-11)

§ 35-14 RIGHT OF ENTRY FOR INSPECTION.

   Every person provided water or sewer service by the city directly or indirectly shall at all reasonable times permit the director of the water department or his or her agents to enter the premises and building for examination of pipes and fixtures and the manner in which the water is used, and refusal by any consumer shall result in termination of water or sewer service from the city until such permission is granted.

(1964 Code, § 37-12)

§ 35-15 RESERVED.

Editor’s note:

   Section 1 of Ord. 12274, adopted November 28, 1995, repealed § 35-15 in its entirety. Formerly, said section pertained to hazardous cross-connections and derived from § 37-13 of the 1964 Code.

§ 35-16 WHEN SEPARATE CONNECTIONS PERMITTED.

   All buildings used as hotels, flats or apartment houses, or other multiple units, may provide separate connections and meters and sewer service lines to the mains for each unit, whether an apartment, dwelling, business or other unit.

(1964 Code, § 37-14)

§ 35-17 UNAUTHORIZED TAPS, CONNECTIONS.

   It shall be unlawful for any person other than persons so authorized by the director of the water department to tap any water line or main of the city, or to make connections with same or extend service lines therefrom.

(1964 Code, § 37-15)

§ 35-18 USE OF FIRE HYDRANTS.

   It shall be unlawful for any person, except a member of the fire department or employee of the department in the scope of employment, to open or use water from a fire hydrant, or to take off the cap without permission from the water department.

(1964 Code, § 37-16)