Any person desiring to be supplied by the city with water may extend in the street copper pipe beyond the commercial main of not less than three-fourths inch in diameter and not over two inches in diameter, when the property of such consumer does not adjoin the street along which the commercial mains run. From the copper extension main to the consumer’s property, the water service may be laid with approved pipes, after securing the consent of the City Council. Such extensions shall be limited to one household. Upon receipt or a request for a second extension in the same area, or a request to tap onto said initial extension, a new water extension district shall be formed. All extension service shall be paid for and maintained by the consumers. The approval of such extensions does not exempt such customer from being assessed in future water extension or improvement districts. All of such pipe which may be laid in any street shall belong to and become the property of the city. Such extension main or small pipe shall be provided with a stopcock which shall be placed on the curb line of the street in which the commercial main is laid. If the line of small pipe shall cross any alley, the same shall be supplied with a stopcock in the alley, and upon failure of any such person to pay the rent, or any rent that may be due and unpaid, or unprovided for, the person putting in the pipe shall pay the water rent of all parties who are thus supplied, or the Utilities Superintendent will immediately shut off the water supply where the supply of a person refusing to pay cannot be shut off separately. If the supply can be shut off separately, then the supply shall only be cut off from those who refuse or neglect to pay. The city shall have the right, if it elects to do so, to place and control a stopcock, if it is deemed advisable, on the property supplied with water by the pipes provided for in this section and have access to the same at any time, this being a part of the contract with such consumer.
(2005 Code, § 3-105)