(A) Every person or persons desiring a supply of water must make application therefor to the Utilities Director. Water may not be supplied to any house or private service pipe except upon the order of the Utilities Director.
(Prior Code, § 3-103)
(B) (1) From and after the date of this section, all new water customers will be required to sign an application for service, and all new water customers and all water customers whose water has been shut off by reason of delinquency of payment of the customers shall pay a deposit for the purpose of guaranteeing the payment of current bills. The deposit shall be an amount set by ordinance of the City Council and on file in the office of the City Clerk. The amount is also set out in Chapter 38, Fee Schedule.
(2) In addition, the City Manager may demand from any customer or prospective customer a security deposit for the purpose of guaranteeing payment of current bills in a sum not to exceed the estimated amount of a 90-day bill for each customer. Following a period of one year after which the deposit has been on account with the city, if the payment record of the customer indicates that they have had no delinquent bills for 12 consecutive months, and that no other condition exists which would require retention of the security deposit, the deposit shall be refunded to the customer without interest. At the time of termination of water service the deposit shall be returned to the customer, less all outstanding obligations for water, sewer, trash collection and recycling service due to the city. If a water account is shut off by reason of delinquency in payment, the water meter shall be read out and all obligations to the city for water charges shall be deducted from the deposit on hand if a deposit exists. Deposit money in excess of the charges, less unpaid sewer, trash collection fees, and recycling fees, shall be returned to the customer.
(Prior Code, § 3-104)
(C) The municipality, through its Water Department, shall furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises abut a street or alley in which a commercial main now is or may hereafter be laid. The municipality may furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises do not abut a street or alley in which a municipal commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid and may also furnish water to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate limits of the municipality, as and when, according to law, the governing body may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations, and water rates hereinafter named in this chapter, shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for water service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every consumer now or hereafter served. Without further formality, the making of application on the part of any applicant or the use or consumption of water service by present consumers thereof and the furnishing of water service to the consumer shall constitute a contract between the consumer and the municipality, to which contract both parties are bound. If the consumer shall violate any of the provisions of the contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the governing body may hereafter adopt, the Utilities Director or his or her agent may cut off or disconnect the water service from the building or premise or place of the violation. No further connection for water service to the building, premise, or place shall again be made save or except by order of the Water Superintendent or his or her agent.
(Prior Code, § 3-106)
(Ord. 1891, passed 1-29-1990; Ord. 2001-2594, passed 1-21-2002)
Statutory reference:
Authority, see Neb. RS 16-681