A. Payment In Full; Required: Whenever water has been turned off or water service limited in accordance with this chapter or any other ordinance, rule or regulation of the city, the water shall not be turned on again nor shall service be restored to normal, unless and until:
1. All sums due the city with respect to utility services provided by the city to the premises together with any applicable late charges or penalties have [all] been paid in full; and
2. The required deposits are paid in the manner required by ordinance, provided that in cases of hardship, water service may be restored prior to payment in full on conditions approved by the manager.
B. Enumerated: There is established a service fee in the sum of thirty dollars ($30.00) for turning on or restoring normal water service where water has been turned off under the provisions of this title.
C. Meter Removal; Charge: In the event a water customer turns the water back on after it has been turned off by the city and the city removes the water meter to enforce this turnoff and later replaces the water meter, a charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to all other fees and charges shall be assessed and be collected for such additional service.
D. Illegal Hookup: In the event an owner or occupant makes an unauthorized connection by bypassing a meter box from which the water meter has been removed by the division, a charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to all other fees and charges shall be assessed, which charge shall be collected prior to reinstatement of water services.
E. Penalty For Illegal Watering:
1. In the event of water usage in violation of the time restrictions imposed under subsection 9-1-10F of this chapter or administrative order adopted by the mayor pursuant to subsection 9-1-8A of this chapter:
a. For the first offense, a written warning will be issued to the customer either personally or by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the address listed on the application for service applicable to the location of the violation.
b. For the second offense in the same year, a civil penalty in the amount of twenty five dollars ($25.00) shall be imposed, in addition to all other fees and charges assessed herein, which penalty shall be collected in the same manner as other fees and charges assessed under this chapter.
c. For subsequent offenses in the same calendar year, an additional civil penalty shall be imposed in the same manner, but each subsequent civil penalty shall be double the amount of the penalty previously imposed on the same customer; provided that no penalty shall exceed an amount of eight hundred dollars ($800.00).
2. No more than one civil penalty may be imposed on any one day.
3. If such penalties are not paid when due, water will be shut off and not reinstated again as provided herein, until all such penalties are paid in full.
(1979 Code § 14.08.180; amd. Ord. 81-28, 6-25-1981; Ord. 84-9, 4-5-1984; Ord. 85-1, 1-3-1985; Ord. 92-8, 1-9-1992; Ord. 2001-3, 1-2-2001; Ord. 2004-30, 5-25-2004; Ord. 2004-44, 6-15-2004, eff. 7-1-2004; Ord. 2021-10, 4-6-2021)