(A) Each water service shall supply no more than one building. If separate city water meters are installed to serve units within the building, each meter must have a shutoff accessible to the city 24 hours a day. The building owner shall provide the shutoff for each meter in one of the following ways:
(1) Install a branch with a stop cock for each branch outside the line of the unit to be supplied. Locking mechanisms shall be provided where multiple branches are served by a single meter. Lockouts and meters must be located in a central meter room location within each building. The lockset to the meter room must be keyed to match the city standard meter room key. This is required to allow 24-hour access by city employees; or
(2) Install buried service line branches for each unit with a city standard direct burial curbstop and riser outside the line of each unit to be supplied. Individual unit shutoff boxes shall not be installed in the right-of-way. The location of the shutoffs shall be provided to the city using accurate dimensions from the building.
(B) All existing buildings that currently do not meet the requirements of this section must meet these requirements whenever alterations, repairs, or additions requiring a building permit occur with a dollar value to $5,000 or more, or when the existing water service is replaced. Compliance with the requirements of this section must occur within 90 days of either of these two events.
(Ord. 774, passed 8-28-95) Penalty, see § 52.99