(A) Generally. When water service is required by an owner of real property on which there now exists or is planned for immediate construction a dwelling, other structure or improvement requiring domestic water service and there is no water main adjacent to the property, the Water Department may grant permission to the applicant to have a service connection and meter set at the nearest existing water main.
(1) The applicant must agree in writing to the following conditions, to pay all costs of installation and maintenance of a pipeline from the service connection and meter to his or her property and assume all responsibility, liability for, and the payment of all costs and damages growing out of the installation, operation or failure of such pipeline.
(2) The connection and pipeline shall be installed and used as a temporary arrangement only; no water shall be conveyed through for the use of any residence or property other than the property for which it was originally intended; and at such time as a regular permanent water main may be installed to serve the property under this agreement, and on written demand of the Water Department the applicant must bear his or her proportionate share of the costs of the main extension and at his or her expense shall install a regular domestic water service, and shall discontinue the use of the temporary services connections and pipeline.
('61 Code, § 24.30)
(B) Manner of procurement. For temporary water service over a short period, special arrangements may be made to secure water supply as follows:
(1) From an installed service connection not in use.
(2) From an outlet at the inlet side of a meter on a service connection that is in use, provided the applicant shall first secure the owner's permission to make that connection and shall agree to pay the cost of making the connection.
(3) From house faucets, provided the applicant shall first have arranged with the consumer who pays for water used through the service.
('61 Code, § 24.31)
(C) Discontinued after six months. A temporary service connection conforming with standard requirements may be made permanent at the end of six months after installation, provided all charges for service installation, together with all bills for water furnished through the service, have been paid in full.
('61 Code, § 24.32)
(D) When may be made permanent. A temporary service connection conforming with standard requirements may be made permanent at the end of six months after installation, provided all charges for service installation, together with all bills for water furnished through the service, have been paid in full.
('61 Code, § 24.33)
(Ord. 257, passed - - )