(a) If, in the judgment of the Director of Public Service, an approved backflow prevention device is necessary for the safety of the public water system:
(1) The Director shall give notice to the water consumer to install such an approved device immediately.
(2) The water consumer shall, at his or her own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner approved by the Service Director, and shall have inspections and tests made of such approved devices as required by the Service Director.
(b) No person shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply, other than the regular public water supply of the City, may enter the supply or distributing system of such municipality, unless such private, auxiliary or emergency water supply, and the method of connection and use of such supply, shall have been approved by the Service Director and by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) The Service Director shall cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where actual or potential hazards to the public water supply may exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be made a matter of public record and shall be repeated as often as the Service Director deems necessary.
(d) The Service Director or his or her duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter, at any reasonable time, any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of the Municipality, for the purpose of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof.
(1) Upon demand, the owners, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Service Director any information which he or she may request regarding the piping system or systems, or water use on such property.
(2) The refusal of such information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of the Service Director, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this section.
(e) The Service Director is hereby authorized and directed to:
(1) Discontinue, after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this section is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he or she may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains.
(2) Water service to such property shall not be restored until such conditions have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 96-24. Passed 9-3-96; Ord. 2022-15. Passed 5-16-22.)