(a) The construction, acquisition, improvement, equipment, custody, operation and maintenance of the municipal waterworks and sewage systems, for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and the distribution of water within or without the corporate limits, the collection of revenues from the combined waterworks sewage system for the services rendered thereby and the employment of all engineers, architects, inspectors, superintendents, managers, collections, attorneys and other personnel as, in the judgment of the Water and Sanitary Sewer Board, may be necessary to the execution of its powers and duties, shall be under the supervision and control of the Board.
(b) In addition to the specific authority granted by this article, the Water and Sanitary Sewer Board shall make and enforce such other rules and regulations, subject to the approval of Council, for the safe, economical and efficient management, control and protection of the combined waterworks and sewage system, for the construction and use of house sewers and connections to the sewage system, for the construction and use of all hydrants, meters, valves, standpipes, storage tanks, pump tanks, pumping stations, intakes, wells, impounding reservoirs, pumps, machinery, purification plants, softening apparatus and all other facilities necessary, appropriate and useful in connection with the municipal waterworks and all other connections thereto and for the regulation, collection, rebating and refunding of such service charges of the combined waterworks and sewage system as may be needful or necessary from time to time; provided, that such rules and regulations shall not become effective until they have been approved by Council by ordinance or resolution and spread upon the records of Council as notice to the public of the provisions thereof.
(8-4-80; 11-3-80; 2-8-82)