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(A) Any one of the following stages of water conservation may be implemented by the issuance of a water shortage declaration, or amendment of a previously issued declaration:
(1) Stage 0, drought watch;
(2) Stage 1, voluntary;
(3) Stage 2, mandatory; outdoor irrigation limited to two times a week;
(4) Stage 3, mandatory; outdoor irrigation limited to one time a week; and
(5) Stage 4, emergency.
(B) A water shortage declaration, including, without limitation, an amendment thereto, imposing Stage 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 water conservation controls, shall specify the controls imposed by such declaration. Customers, and users, shall comply with such mandatory controls as are specified in a water shortage declaration, including any amendment thereto, issued pursuant to this article.
(C) Violation of any mandatory control specified in a declaration issued pursuant to this article shall be subject to such enforcement action as is set forth in this article.
(D) No mandatory control imposed by a water shortage declaration shall apply to any public, or volunteer, Fire Department while fighting a fire.
(E) The Water Shortage Management Plan adopted pursuant to this article may include classifications of the uses made of water from the town’s water supply as discretionary, community, and business and essential, and take such classifications into account in determining the water conservation controls that may be imposed pursuant to this article.
(A) A water shortage declaration, including an amendment thereto, may impose Stage 1 water conservation controls at any time that, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, the Town Manager determines that the town may not be able to meet all demand for discretionary, community, and business and essential water uses based on any one, or more, of the factors set forth in § 21-291(A)(1) through (A)(11).
(B) A water shortage declaration imposing Stage 1 water conservation controls may include: restrictions on the manner, day of the week, and time of day of one, or more, discretionary water uses, and/or complete prohibitions on one, or more, of such uses.
(C) Community athletic associations, golf courses, and similar customers whose use of water to irrigate large areas is a community and business water use may submit a plan for approval by MPWD and/or HPUD allowing alternatives to the water conservation controls imposed by a water shortage declaration. Approval of alternatives shall be limited to a customer’s community and business water uses, and shall require such customers to comply with substantially equivalent controls on water usage. Violation of any portion of a customer’s approved plan shall be considered as a violation of this article, and shall be subject to the provisions of § 21-299.3 in the same manner as any other violation of a water conservation control imposed pursuant to this article.
(D) Reduction of use goal is established at voluntary participation.
(A) A water shortage declaration, including an amendment thereto, may impose Stage 2 water conservation controls at any time that, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, the Town Manager determines that the town may not be able to meet all demand for discretionary, community, and business and essential water uses based on any one, or more, of the factors set forth in § 21-291(A)(1) through (A)(11).
(B) A water shortage declaration imposing Stage 2 water conservation controls may include: restrictions on the manner, day of the week, and time of day of one or more discretionary water uses; and/or complete prohibitions on one, or more, of such uses.
(C) Community athletic associations, golf courses, and similar customers whose use of water to irrigate large areas is a community and business water use may submit a plan for approval by MPWD and/or HPUD allowing alternatives to the water conservation controls imposed by a water shortage declaration. Approval of alternatives shall be limited to a customer’s community and business water uses, and shall require such customers to comply with substantially equivalent controls on water usage. Violation of any portion of a customer’s approved plan shall be considered as a violation of this article, and shall be subject to the provisions of § 21-299.3 in the same manner as any other violation of a water conservation control imposed pursuant to this article.
(D) Reduction of use goal is established at 5% to 10%.
(A) A water shortage declaration, including an amendment thereto, may impose Stage 3 water conservation controls at any time that, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, the Town Manager determines that the town may not be able to meet all demand for community, and business and essential, water uses based on any one, or more, of the factors set forth in § 21-291(A)(1) through (A)(11).
(B) A water shortage declaration imposing Stage 3 water conservation controls may include: restrictions on the manner, day of the week, and time of day of one, or more, discretionary or community and business water uses; and/or complete prohibitions on one, or more, of such uses.
(C) Reduction of use goal is established at 10% to 20%.
(A) A water shortage declaration, including an amendment thereto, may impose Stage 4 water conservation controls at any time that, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, and the Town Manager, the Town Council determines that the town may not be able to meet all demand for essential water uses based on any one, or more, of the factors set forth in § 21-291(A)(1) through (A)(11); provided, that the Town Manager may impose Stage 4 water conservation controls without the approval of the Town Council at any time that, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, the Town Manager determines that the town may not be able to meet all demand for essential water uses based on any one, or more, of the factors set forth in § 21-291(A)(1) through (A)(11), and also finds that emergency conditions exist. If the Town Manager imposes Stage 4 water conservation controls pursuant to this section, such controls shall be subject to amendment or termination by the Town Council.
(B) A water shortage declaration imposing Stage 4 water conservation controls may include: restrictions on the manner, day of the week, and/or time of day of one, or more, discretionary, community and business, or essential water uses; and/or complete prohibitions on one, or more, of such uses.
(C) The Town Manager, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, shall determine the specific water conservation controls included in a water shortage declaration imposed pursuant to this section. The provisions of subsection (A) above shall not be construed under any circumstances to limit the authority of the Town Manager under this article to issue, amend, or terminate a water shortage declaration, or to require approval of the Town Council in order for the Town Manager to amend, or terminate, any water shortage declaration imposing Stage 4 water conservation controls, including, without limitation, amending a water shortage declaration to revise Stage 4 water conservation controls, or to impose Stage 2 or 3 water conservation controls.
(D) In addition to the controls authorized by subsection (A) above, the Town Manager shall also be authorized, based upon a recommendation from MPWD and/or HPUD, to take such actions as may be reasonably necessary, or convenient, to ration water among the town’s customers, including, without limitation, suspending water service to customers pursuant to a plan approved by the Town Council.
(E) Reduction of use goal is established at 20% to 30%.
It shall be unlawful for any customer, or owner, of a plumbing supply receiving water from the town’s water supply to fail to repair a leak in such plumbing supply within a reasonable time while a water shortage declaration is in effect. Any customer, or owner, who fails to repair a leak in such plumbing supply within five calendar days after notice to do so from the town shall be subject to a civil penalty of $100, termination of service, or both.
Penalty, see § 1-111
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