The Council is hereby authorized to declare by resolution, and the Mayor, and in his or her absence, the President of the Council, is hereby authorized and empowered to declare by executive order the existence of an emergency relating to the available water supply of the municipality and to impose restrictions on the use of water during such emergency. Whenever the Council, Mayor or President of the Council shall determine that the remaining available water supply is not sufficient to meet the demands on the supply, the Council, Mayor or President of the Council may declare the existence of an emergency and impose reasonable restrictions on the use of such water. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to observe any such restrictions so imposed by the Council, Mayor or President of the Council provided announcement of such restriction has been made.
(2000 Code, § 3-127)