The rules and regulations and water rates hereinafter named shall be considered a part of the contract with every person who is supplied with water through the waterworks of the city, and every such person, by taking water shall be considered and held to be bound thereby; and whenever any of the rules of this chapter, or such other rules as the city or its Public Works Director may hereafter adopt, are violated, the water shall be cutoff from the building or place of such violation, even though two or more parties may receive water through the same pipe, and shall not be let on again except by order of the Public Works Director, and on payment of the expense of shutting it off and turning it on again; and after the cause for such suspension has been removed, and upon such other terms as the Public Works Director shall determine, and a satisfactory understanding with the parties that no further cause of complaint shall arise. In case of such violation, the city shall have the right to declare payment made for the water by the person committing such violation to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited.
(Prior Code, § 51.001)