§ 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)

§ 35-22 DAMS, EMBANKMENTS, FILLS ACROSS WATERCOURSES.

   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to build, construct or maintain a dam, embankment or fill over or across any natural watercourse in the city for the purpose of impounding or diverting water, except upon full compliance with the requirements of this section.

   (b)   Before beginning the construction or building of any dam, embankment, fill or obstruction over or across a natural watercourse in the city, or doing any work in connection with the construction or building of such structure, a person is hereby required to present an application for a permit to do such construction work to the city council, and secure a permit from the city council, authorizing such construction. Such application shall be accompanied with a description of the project, showing its location, plans, specifications, distance from the nearest streets and thoroughfares and the approximate number of residences within a radius of 2,000 feet together with the general description of the topography of the surrounding area, and such other pertinent facts as may show that the water that is impounded or diverted will not constitute a menace to the health of the community, will not impair the natural drainage in the immediate area, and will not materially interfere with travel over and along streets and thoroughfares in the vicinity.

   (c)   NATURAL WATERCOURSES, as used in this section, shall mean and include any stream with bed and banks or any gully, ravine or valley through which water ordinarily flows, either regularly or intermittently.

(1964 Code, § 27-7)