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(A) Duty of owner or tenant; report to utility customer service office; penalty.
(1) It shall be the duty of every owner, his or her agent or tenant, to at all times exercise due diligence to prevent the waste of water, and to this end shall immediately stop all leaks on his or her premises, and shall notify the utility customer service office promptly of any leak discovered other than upon his or her premises, thus to enable the prompt stopping thereof.
(2) Persisting in any willful waste, or neglect to promptly stop water through leaks on part of any owner, his or her agent or tenant, shall be sufficient cause to authorize the city to discontinue its service and shut off the water supply from and to the premises in question, without notice.
(3) Whenever the water supply to and for any premises has been shut off because of leaks or waste, the same shall not be turned on again until all cause for shut-off shall have been remedied or removed, and until satisfactory assurance shall be given to the city that the condition causing the shut-off will not again exist by the owner, or his or her agent or tenant, and the charge for service disconnection pursuant to § 51.130 shall have been paid to the city to cover the cost of turning on said water supply again.
(‘72 Code, § 36-54)
(B) Refunds for loss of water not allowed. Under no circumstances will abatements, allowances, deductions or refunds be made to customer accounts for or on account of water used, lost or wasted through leaks, carelessness, neglect or otherwise, after the same has passed through the meter. (‘72 Code, § 36-42)
(C) Rate adjustment. An account with usage exceeding 200% of the average monthly usage for the previous 12 months in any month commencing on or after March 1, 2009 will be considered once in a 12-month period for adjustment of such monthly overage to the lowest tiered water rate for an adjustment period of up to two months, subject to the customer providing supporting documentation of the existence and subsequent repair of a leak or other valid circumstances causing the overage. The granting of a rate adjustment will be subject to the approval of both the Director of Financial Services and the Director of Public Utilities or their designees.
(Ord. 205, passed - - ; Am. Ord. O-72-206, passed 12-6-72 ; Am. Ord. O-2005-04, passed 5-4- 05; Am. Ord. O-2010-14, passed 6- 2-10; Am. Ord. O-2011-03, passed 1-19-11; Am. Ord. O-2019-18, passed 9-18-19)
(A) Installation. Upon receipt of instruction from city authorities, the Public Utilities Department at its own cost and expense will install, at any location on any public or private highway or thoroughfare, a standard fire hydrant or plug, having two, two and one-half-inch hose nozzle, and one four and one-half-inch streamer nozzle and six-inch cast-iron service pipe from the Department's street main, and provided further the size of the street main and the surrounding distributing system and the available pressure on said street main and the surrounding distributing system is, in the discretion of the Department, sufficient to enable the giving of proper service at the fire hydrant under normal and ordinary conditions.
('72 Code, § 36-56)
(B) Use only for fire fighting; exception. All fire hydrants or plugs shall be used for fire protection purposes exclusively. All use of fire hydrants or plugs for sprinkling, sewer flushing, watering, filling of other carts or receptacles, and any use of fire hydrants or plugs other than for strictly fire protection (meaning thereby extinguishment of fires or wetting down surrounding properties during a fire to prevent its spreading) is prohibited unless any such other use is permitted by the Department and evidenced by a written permit signed by its Superintendent, which said permit shall be exhibited to any and all employees of the Department.
('72 Code, § 36-57)
(C) Payment of annual maintenance charge outside the city. A charge per water hydrant outside the city to be established by resolution of the City Commission shall be paid by the appropriate governmental agency or private customer to the city if the city is responsible for maintaining said water hydrant.
(‘72 Code, § 36-59) (Ord. 1792, passed - - ; Am. Ord. O-72-23, passed 2-16-72 ; Am. Ord. O-2005-04, passed 5-4-05; Am. Ord. O-2014-15, passed 7-16-14)
(D) Payment of annual rental outside the city. A charge per water hydrant outside the city to be established by resolution of the City Commission shall be paid as annual rental by the appropriate governmental agency or private customer to the Water Revenue Fund for the use of each hydrant for fire protection and service.
(‘72 Code, § 36-59.1) (Ord. O-72-23, passed 2-16-72; Am. Ord. O-2014-15, passed 7-16-14)
(A) Each and every owner will be held fully responsible and liable by and to the city for all that is done or omitted on, in or about premises by any agent or tenant or other persons not in the employ of the city, who may gain access thereto.
(B) The tenant in or upon any premises of any Owner, shall at all times and for all purposes be connected with or arising from the City’s water supply service to and for such premises except the making of the original application for water supply service pipe and contract, and shall be taken and construed to be the properly constituted agent of the Owner.
(‘72 Code, § 36-60) (Ord. 205, passed - - ; Am. Ord. O-2005- 04, passed 5-4-05; Am. Ord. O-2019-18, passed 9-18-19)
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