The rules, regulations, and water rates hereinafter named shall be considered a part of the contract with every person, firm, or corporation that is supplied with water through the water system of the city; and every such person, firm, or corporation, by taking water, shall be considered as expressing his, her, or their consent to be bound thereby. Whenever any of such rules and regulations or such others as the city shall adopt are violated, the water shall be cut off from the building or place of such violation (even though two or more parties are receiving water through the same pipe), and shall not be let on again except by order of the City Administrator, or his or her representative, and on payment of all arrears of rent, the expense of shutting off and letting it on and such other terms as the City Council shall determine, and a satisfactory understanding with the party that no further cause of complaint shall arise. In case of such violation, the City Council, furthermore, may declare any payment for the water by the party or parties committing such violation to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited. The right is reserved to the City Council to change the rules, regulations, and water rates from time to time as it deems advisable, and to make special rates and contracts in all proper cases.
(Prior Code, § 13.12.010) (Ord. 143, passed - -1926)