(a) The customer's premises shall be open at all reasonable times to the cross-connection control device inspector and the superintendent of water or his or her designees for the purposes of verifying the presence or absence of cross-connections, inspecting the installation, testing, maintenance and repair of cross-connection control devices, verifying information submitted by the customer regarding the required cross-connection control device inspection, and ensuring that the requirements of this article have been properly executed.
(b) If in accordance with the Illinois Plumbing Code or in the judgment of the superintendent of water, a cross-connection control device is necessary for the safety of the waterworks system, the superintendent of water may, two weeks after serving a written notice on the customer to install a cross-connection control device, deny or discontinue water service to such customer's premises, and wherever water service is denied or discontinued it shall not be turned on again until the cross-connection control device shall be properly installed. The superintendent of water may, after two weeks written notice to a customer, deny or discontinue the water service to any customer's premises wherein any cross-connection control device required by this article is not installed, tested, maintained or repaired in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of water, or if it is found that the cross-connection control device has been removed or bypassed, or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises, or if a low pressure cut-off or other device required by this article is not installed and maintained in working order, or if any person is found to be violating any provision of this article.
(c) If in the judgment of the superintendent of water an emergency exists whereby the waterworks system is immediately threatened, the superintendent of water shall have the right to enter the premises of a customer, providing oral notice only if such is possible, and may immediately without any notice deny or discontinue the water supply to a customer's premises. In the event of such denial or discontinuance, the superintendent of water shall as soon as practical serve written notice as herein provided.
(d) The written notice herein provided for shall state the nature of the request or violation and shall provide a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. This written notice may be served by personal service or by mailing such notice upon the customer.
(e) Water service that has been denied or discontinued shall not be restored until the customer has corrected or eliminated any conditions or defects in conformance with this article and to the satisfaction of the superintendent of water, and a reconnection fee as set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule shall have been paid.
(f) Neither the village, the superintendent of water, nor their agents or assigns shall be liable to any customers of the waterworks system for any injury, damages or lost revenue which may result from the termination of a customer’s water supply, whether or not such termination was with or without notice.
(g) Any person violating any of the provisions of this article, in addition to the foregoing, shall become liable to the village for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the village by reason of such violation, whether the same was caused before or after notice. If contamination of the waterworks system occurs through an illegal cross-connection or an improperly installed, maintained or repaired cross-connection control device, or a cross-connection control device which has been bypassed, the customer responsible for such contamination shall bear the cost of cleanup of or repair to the waterworks system.
(h) The cross-connection device lock box cost will be as set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule.
(i) Failure to report test results in a manner required by § 36-46(g)(2) will result in the application of the cross-connection non-conformance fee set forth in the village’s Comprehensive Fee and Fine Schedule to the customer’s water account.
(Ord. No. 2014-05-3357; Ord. No. 2016-04-3394; Ord. No. 2023-31-3576)