(A) The Water Department shall not be responsible for damages for any failure to supply water service, any interruption of the water supply or any defective piping on the customer’s premises, nor for damages resulting to a customer or to third parties from the use of water or from the presence of the Department’s appliances upon the customer’s premises, unless such is due to fault, neglect or culpability on the part of the Water Department.
(B) Neither party shall be liable to the other for any failure or delay in cases where the failure or delay is caused by strikes, acts of God or an unavoidable accident or contingency that is beyond its control and not due to fault, neglect or culpability upon its part.
(Prior Code, § 13.04.140) (Ord. 1003, passed 9-8-1980)