(A) The Superintendent of Public Utilities is hereby authorized and directed to disconnect, after reasonable notice not to exceed 30 days, to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any backflow prevention device required by this Ordinance is not installed, tested, maintained, and repaired in a manner acceptable to the Director of Public Works; or if it is found that the backflow prevention device has been removed or bypassed; or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises; or if a low pressure cutoff required by this Ordinance is not installed and maintained in working order; or if any connection in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance is known to exist; and said Director of Public Works is authorized to take such other precautionary measures as he may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination to the public water supply distribution mains.
(B) Water service to such property shall not be restored until such conditions have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance and to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works and until the required reconnection fee is paid to the City of Mt. Vernon.
(C) Immediate disconnection with a verbal notice can be effective when the Director of Public Works is assured or has determined that eminent danger of harmful contamination of the public water supply system exists. Such action shall be followed by written notification of the cause of disconnection. Immediate disconnection without notice to any party can be effected to prevent actual or anticipated contamination or pollution of the public water supply, provided that, in the reasonable opinion of the Director of Public Works or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, such action is required to prevent actual or potential contamination or pollution of the public water supply.
(D) Neither the City of Mt. Vernon, the Director of Public Works, its agents, nor assigns shall be liable to any customer for any injury, damages, or lost revenues which may result from termination of said customer’s water supply in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance, whether or not said termination was with or without notice.
(E) Any person found to be violating any provision of this Ordinance or any customer responsible for back-siphoned material or contamination through backflow, if contamination of the potable water supply system occurs through an illegal cross-connection or an improperly installed, maintained, or repaired device, or a device which has been bypassed, must bear the cost of clean-up of the potable water supply system; and said customer shall be responsible for all reasonable attorney fees incurred by the City in enforcing the terms of this Ordinance.
(Prior Code, Art. 16, § 16.3(p)(M))