(a) No person other than a duly authorized officer or employee of the village water department shall be permitted to examine, read, repair or in any way interfere with any water meter installed in any building, structure or premises for the control of water supplied thereto. Any person not so authorized who shall tamper or interfere with any such water meter shall be subject to the penalties provided by § 16-1.
(b) If it be found that such water meter is being tampered with or interfered with by any unauthorized person, the owner of the building, structure or premises in which such meter is installed or located, or the person in possession, charge or control thereof, shall be held responsible for such unauthorized tampering and interference, and the water supply to such building, structure or premises shall be cut off, and such water supply so cut off shall not again be turned on until such owner or person shall have paid to the water department for the use of the village, the cost and expense of cutting off and turning on such water supply as provided for in § 36-16, and the further sum as set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule as liquidated damages for and on account of such unauthorized tampering and interference.
(1929 Code, § 795) (Ord. No. 2014-05-3357; Ord. No. 2016-04-3394)
Cross-reference:
As to tampering with, etc., meters generally, see § 24-37