(A) All services shall be provided with a water meter, the type and size of which shall be approved by the Superintendent of Water.
(B) No water meter shall be permitted to remain in service after it shall fail to correctly register all flows of water passing through it. The city will repair or replace all meters which fail to correctly register such flows, if such failure is due to wear or defective working parts.
(C) The owner of the property on whose service the meter is installed shall bear all risk of failure of the meter to correctly register when such failure is due to improper installation, damage from freezing, overheating or physical damage to said meter.
(D) Meters shall be installed by the owner in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the city.
(E) No person other than the duly authorized officer or employee of the city shall repair or in any way alter or interfere with any water meter installed in any building, structure or premises for the control of the water thereto; if it shall be found that such water meter is being tampered with, by an unauthorized person, the owner of such building, structure or premises in which said meter is installed or located or the person in possession, charge or control thereof shall be held responsible for such unauthorized tampering or interference, and the water supply to such building, structure or premises may be cut off; and if such water supply is cut off for such cause, it shall not be again turned on until the owner or person in charge of such building, structure or premises in which the meter is located shall have paid to the city the cost and expense of cutting off and turning on such water supply and the further sum as set out in the fee schedule as liquidated damages for and on account of such unauthorized tampering or interference.
(F) The city shall retain ownership of all meters installed on inside city services and shall retain the right to enter any buildings, structures or premises where said meters are located, for the purpose of inspecting, checking, repairing, removing or replacing such meters.
(Prior Code, § 44-40)