(a) Any person desiring to use water from a fire hydrant for building, paving or similar purposes, may apply to the Building Commissioner for permission to do so. Upon the applicant's exhibiting to such Building Commissioner a receipt from the Water Department of the City of Cleveland showing that the applicant has paid such Department for the water desired to be used, and upon the deposit by the applicant of ten dollars ($10.00) with the Building Commissioner, such Commissioner shall issue to the applicant a written permit, indicating the location and nature of the work for which the water is to be used, and such Commissioner shall deliver to the applicant a pipe reducer and hydrant key for use in securing such water.
(b) No person who has secured such a permit shall transfer or assign it, or use water secured thereunder on any work other than that designated in such permit, nor shall any such permittee permit any other person so to use such water or to make connection with any water line or pipe of such permittee operated under such permit, nor shall any permittee use any other device than the reducer and keys issued by the Building Commissioner for making connection with or opening or closing the fire hydrant from which he or she draws water under such permit.
(c) Any person who has secured any pipe reducer or hydrant key as provided in division (a) hereof shall, as soon as he or she has finished using such devices under the permit with which he or she secured them, return them to the Building Commissioner. Such Commissioner shall thereupon repay to such person nine dollars ($9.00) of the ten dollar ($10.00) deposit above mentioned, except that he or she shall deduct from such refund the cost of replacing any loss and repairing any damage to the devices or to the fire hydrant used under such permit for which the permittee may be responsible.
(d) No person shall damage, tamper with, open, close or use water from any fire hydrant in the City except as hereinbefore provided, and except for the necessary and proper use of such hydrants by officers of the City and in case of fire.
(Ord. 398. Passed 2-2-25.)
(e) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.