The municipality, through its Water Department, shall furnish water service to property within its corporate limits if such property abuts a street or alley in which a commercial main now is or may hereafter be laid. The municipality may furnish water to property within its corporate limits which does not abut a street or alley in which a commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid and may also furnish water service to property situated outside the corporate limits of the municipality, as and when, according to law, the governing body may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations and water rates hereinafter named in this subchapter, shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for water service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every property owner now or hereafter served. Without further formality, the making of application by the property owner for himself or herself or the use or consumption of water service by tenants residing on such property and the furnishing of water service to such property owner and the municipality, to which said contract both parties are bound. If the property owner or tenants residing on such property shall violate any of the provisions of said contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the governing body may hereafter adopt, the Water Commissioner, may cut off or disconnect the water service to the property. No further connection for water service to said property shall again be made except by order of the Water Commissioner.
(1999 Code, § 3-105)