§ 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   Section 1 of Ord. 12274, adopted November 28, 1995, repealed § 35-15 in its entirety.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)

§ 35-19 INJURING, TAMPERING WITH WATER OR SEWER LINES.

   It shall be unlawful for any person, individually or in association with others, to willfully break, injure or tamper with any part of the water or sewer system of the city, for any purpose whatsoever, or in any other manner to maliciously interfere with or prevent the running and operation of such system and water supply therefor or any portion thereof.

(1964 Code, § 37-17)

§ 35-20 PROVISIONS INCORPORATED INTO CONSUMER CONTRACTS.

   All of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be incorporated in every contract between the city and its water or sanitary sewerage service customers, and each customer or consumer shall be charged with knowledge of the provisions of this chapter and, by applying for and accepting water or sanitary sewerage service from the city, to have assented to the provisions of this chapter.

(1964 Code, § 37-18)

§ 35-21 RESERVATION OF RIGHT BY CITY.

   The right is reserved in the city and its water department to temporarily discontinue, disconnect and reconnect without notice water and sanitary sewerage service to all customers for the purpose of making repairs, connections, extensions and cleaning of mains, machinery, reservoir or any part of the city waterworks. None of the terms of this chapter shall ever be construed as requiring the city water department to maintain a specified constant pressure in its lines.

(1964 Code, § 37-19)