(A) No person shall open nor direct to have opened, enter or otherwise access a curb stop, meter setting or meter or manhole unless authorized by the Superintendent. Access into a curb stop, meter or manhole by unauthorized persons may result in a fine as outlined in the schedule of rates and charges.
(B) (1) No new water service shall be connected to the distribution system unless the applicant shall have installed on the property or within the improvements thereon an operable main line shut off valve which completely interrupts the water supply to the property.
(2) Subject to allowance of a reasonable time for existing users of the system to complete installation of an operable main line shut off valve or to repair an existing inoperable shut off valve the Superintendent, for good cause, after notice to the user, is authorized to discontinue water service to the property.
(C) The Superintendent is authorized and directed to minimize the risk of the flow of contaminants into the town’s public water supply from any user thereof by prohibiting a user from installing or using a cross-connection or booster pump connection and by creating standards for acceptable cross-connection control, reduced pressure principle back flow preventer and pressure type vacuum breaker devices and, as a condition to receiving continued service by the water utility, to require any user to install any such device or devices of discontinue any practice which, in the judgment of the Superintendent, increases the risk of contaminating the town’s public water supply.
(D) Actions taken or ordered by the Superintendent under this section shall be subject to review by the Town Council upon written request of the effected customer or user, filed with the Clerk-Treasurer not later than 30 days after the date of the Superintendent’s final action or order and shall be heard following reasonable notice to the complainant.
(E) No water connection shall be permitted, nor completed, until the owner of the property connected pays the connection charge and, if located outside the corporate limits of the town, executes a written waiver of objection to any pending or future proceeding which could result in annexation of the property to the town.
(Prior Code, Title V, Ch. I, Art. VI) (Ord. passed 4-1-1998; Am. Ord. 1, 2019, passed 4-10-2019) Penalty, see § 52.99