(a) Where the water supply to any building, structure or premises shall have been cut off or stopped on account of the nonpayment of water rates or on account of the violation of any of the provisions of this article, or for any other reason or cause whatsoever, where such cutting off or stopping shall have been done by the water department, water shall not again be supplied to such building, structure or premises or permitted to be turned on therein or thereto without a permit first issued for that purpose by the superintendent of water, or upon order of the village president or board of trustees and the payment of a reconnection fee. The reconnection fee shall be in an amount as set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule. If it shall be found by the water department that the water supply has been turned on or into any such building, structure or premises from which it has been cut off or stopped, as aforesaid, in violation of the provisions of this section, the superintendent of water shall have the authority and it shall be his or her duty to see that the service or supply pipes by and through which water is supplied to such building, structure or premises are cut off at the water mains or as near thereto as is practicable, and no water shall again be supplied to such building, structure or premises or be permitted to be turned on therein, thereto, until a fine as set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule shall have been paid for and on account of the unlawful and unauthorized turning on for such water supply to such premises.
(Ord. No. 09-20-3253; Ord. No. 2014-05-3357; Ord. No. 2016-04-3394)
(b) The amounts hereinbefore provided for shall be paid by the person owning, occupying or in possession, charge or control of such building, structure or premises at the time it is desired to have the water turned on or supplied thereto, irrespective of whether such person shall have been the one guilty of violating the provisions of this section, such person being hereby declared to be held responsible for any tampering with the buffalo or shut-off boxes on his or her premises or in his or her building or structure and also for any unlawful or unauthorized turning on of water into or upon his or her building, structure or premises.