(A) All permanent water services hereafter installed, whether for domestic or commercial purposes, shall be metered. No meter shall be placed within a building. The meter shall be placed outside of the building in a suitable pit to be located at the curb or at some other suitable location as approved by the Department. All water meters shall be purchased from the Department at cost.
(B) When a water meter is damaged in any premises by freezing or by hot water backing through the meter or by other physical injury, the consumer, and not the City, shall be required to pay the cost of repairs and labor. Any municipal water meter shall be taken out and tested upon complaint of the consumer, upon payment of a fee of Fifty Dollars. If upon test, the meter is not within three percent (3%) of being accurate, it shall be repaired or replaced and the Fifty Dollar fee shall be returned to the consumer. Every meter shall have a shut-off valve at the inlet side, and every meter larger than one (1) inch in size shall be followed immediately by a shut-off valve.
(C) All persons using water for any purpose, including sprinkling lawns and yards, will be required to have their piping so arranged that water used for any such purposes will be measured through their meters. All meters shall be sealed. No person shall break or cause to be broken, the seal on any water meter, unless authorized to do so by the Superintendent of Public Utilities.
(Prior Code, Art. 16, § 16.3(f))