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(EDITOR"S NOTE: Pursuant to Resolution 95-4 passed February 16, 1995 Council declared it to be the policy of Council not to extend water or sanitary sewer service nor construct water or sanitary sewer lines outside of the corporate limits of the City.
(a) All taps into City water lines shall be made only by City employees or by a private contractor hired by the City.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the City to extend any existing water line in order to serve any property.
(c) The size of the tap to be installed shall be determined by the property owner and specified in the application, but in no event smaller than one inch (1"). The City shall not be responsible for the inadequacy of the service provided because of the size of the tap selected.
(Ord. 22-36. Passed 7-13-22.)
(a) The installation of any private potable water supply well at a property within the corporate limits of the City, where a municipal water main line is available within 100 feet of the property line, is prohibited as set forth herein. Also, persons or entities who have connected into the City Municipal Water System are prohibited from installing potable water supply wells.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Potable water - any water that is used for drinking, showering, bathing or cooking.
(2) City - property located within the corporation limits of the City of Ontario.
(c) Water Supplies. All private water systems supplied by private potable water supply wells that are in existence prior to the date of this ordinance, and which are located within the City, or which provide potable water to properties within the City, are exempt from the requirements of this ordinance.
(d) Duty or Standard: Notice, Order.
(1) All persons and entities shall comply and abide by this ordinance within 120 days of issuance of this ordinance.
(2) Any person or entity that violates or fails to comply with this ordinance or provisions of this ordinance shall be given written notice of violation or the failure to comply and an order to correct within a specified time period.
(3) All new wells must be pre-approved and inspected by the City of Ontario in accordance with current backflow prevention and well head protection policy.
(e) Penalty. Any person or entity that installs or constructs a potable water supply well within the City or who is connected to the City water supply and fails or refuses to comply with this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each and every day the violation or noncompliance is found to exist shall be a separate offense.
(Ord. 22-36. Passed 7-13-22.)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is now addressed in Section 921.035.)
Beginning with the water bills issued for the month commencing April 1, 2018 and thereafter, there is hereby enacted an additional charge often dollars ($10.00) per month upon all water customers whose premises are served by a dedicated fire protection water line.
(Ord. 22-36. Passed 7-13-22.)
(a) No person shall make connections to City water lines or lateral connections, or making repairs thereto within the City unless he shall have been duly licensed to engage in such business by the Service-Safety Director. Such license shall not be issued until the applicant shall have paid a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the initial year and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each consecutive year thereafter, and shall have filed with the Director evidence of the following:
(1) Compensation insurance. The applicant shall procure and shall maintain during the life of his license workmen's compensation insurance as required by applicable State law for all of his employees to be engaged in the business of making sewer connections in the City. In case any class of employees engaged in hazardous work is not protected under the workmen's compensation statute, the applicant shall provide adequate employer’s liability insurance for the protection of such of his employees as are not otherwise protected.
(2) Contractor's public liability and property damage insurance and vehicle liability insurance. The applicant shall procure and shall maintain during the life of his license contractor’s public liability insurance, contractor's property damage insurance and vehicular liability insurance in the following amounts:
Public liability insurance and vehicular liability insurance in an amount not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for injuries, including accidental death to any one person, and subject to the same limit for each person, in an amount not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) on account of one accident, and contractor’s property damage insurance in an amount not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
The Service-Safety Director shall keep up to date files of licensed water line tappers, with the addresses of their places of business. Should a licensed water line tapper change the location of his place of business, he shall file notice of the change with the Service-Safety Director and the latter shall cause the record to be amended accordingly. Notice of City instructions or orders shall be communicated to a water line tapper by written notice to be mailed to him by certified mail at the address on file.
(b) If any licensed water tapper shall violate the provisions of any ordinance, rule or regulation relating to the making of waterline connections, or shall fail or refuse to perform any of the duties imposed on him by ordinance, resolution, rule or regulations, the Service-Safety Director with the advice of the Law Director shall be authorized to revoke his license, and such water line tapper shall receive such notice by certified mail.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the owner of property may make a connection to the city water system without complying with the licensing, compensation insurance, or liability insurance of this section provided all other ordinances, rules, and regulations for making a waterline connection are followed.
(Ord. 22-36. Passed 7-13-22.)
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