(A) Water service connections required; application for water service connection; fee.
(1) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the village and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or could, by extension, be located a village water main or line is hereby required at his, her, or their expense, as hereinafter set forth, to install suitable water service facilities therein; and to connect such facilities directly with the village water system and mains.
(2) Applications for water service connections must be made in writing to the Village Clerk by the owner or agent of the property to be served. Such applications shall state official house number or numbers of the premises to be served, size of pipe required and the approximate location where such service shall enter the premises and shall accompany with said application a fee as assessed by the Board of Trustees per front foot of the lot so to be served by water, if frontage fees have not been heretofore paid on said lot and in addition thereto, shall render the sum as assessed by the Board of Trustees for each tap not greater than three-fourths-inch size before such tap shall be made. Larger connections shall be made at actual cost of labor and materials plus 10% for overhead expense and such taps or connections to the water mains shall be then made by the employees of the village’s Water Department or the plumber engaged by the applicant.
(B) Service connections. The laying of all water service connections and pipes, setting of water service fixtures in streets and public grounds to be served by the village, shall be made by the employees of the village’s Water Department or by duly licensed plumbers under supervision of the Water Department.
(Prior Code, § 7-1-13)
(C) Permit. After a service connection has been laid, no plumber or other person shall make any attachment or connection to it to serve other premises so as to connect the same with the water system, unless he, she, or they shall procure a written permit from the Board of Trustees, specifying the particular additions, repairs or alterations to be made, and shall perform such work in conformity with such permit, ordinances of the village, and the rules and regulations of the village’s Water Department.
(Prior Code, § 7-1-14)
(Ord. 9-1959, passed - -; Ord. 80-4, passed 10-7-1980; Ord. 81-2, passed 6-2-1981) Penalty, see § 50.99
Cross-reference:
Fee schedule, see § 33.32