Public service corporations, contractors and other persons or corporations requiring water from the village for use in puddling trenches, ditches or for other purposes incident to public or private work or improvement or otherwise, shall make application to the superintendent of water for permission to use water for such purposes, stating in such application the name of the applicant and, if such applicant be a person, his or her place of business and residence, and if a corporation, the name and residence of its principal officers, together with its place of business. Such applications shall also set forth the particular use to which the water so desired is to be put. If it shall appear to the superintendent of water that the use of water as desired is necessary and will not create a shortage so as to deprive regular consumers of water of their usual supply of water, the superintendent shall issue a permit in writing authorizing the use of water by such applicant upon such conditions and under such restrictions as the superintendent of water shall impose, such conditions and restrictions to be fixed according to the circumstances existing in each case. The supply of water to be used by any such applicant shall be paid for in accordance with the rates prescribed in § 36-18 to be charged for water used for construction purposes and the superintendent of water shall be the judge of the amount of water used and his or her estimate of such amount shall be final.
(1929 Code, § 800)