(a) All persons are encouraged to voluntarily limit the amount of water used to the amount absolutely necessary for health and safety, business operations, and irrigation. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter where a declared water shortage stage or water shortage emergency requires mandatory or other more stringent requirements, the following elements of conservation apply at all times on a voluntary basis by all persons within the City:
(1) Avoid hose washing of sidewalks, walkways, driveways, parking areas or other paved surfaces, except as required for sanitary purposes. If a person uses a hand-held hose to wash any sidewalk, walkway, driveway, parking area or other paved surface, the hose shall be equipped with a positive shutoff nozzle.
(2) Wash motor vehicles, trailers, boats and other types of mobile equipment using a hand held bucket or a hose equipped with a positive shutoff nozzle for quick rinses, or at the immediate premises of a commercial car wash or with recycled wastewater for approved uses.
(3) Avoid using water to clean, fill or maintain levels in decorative fountains, ponds, lakes or other similar aesthetic structures unless such water is part of a recycling system.
(4) Encourage restaurants, hotels, cafés, cafeterias or other public places where food is sold, served or offered for sale, to serve drinking water only to those customers expressly requesting water.
(5) Promptly repair all leaks from indoor and outdoor plumbing fixtures.
(6) Avoid watering lawn, landscape or other turf areas between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
(7) Avoid causing or allowing the water to run off landscape areas into adjoining streets, sidewalks or other paved areas due to incorrectly directed or maintained sprinklers or excessive watering.
(§ 2, Ord. 2907, eff. June 16, 2009, as amended by § 2, Ord. 3027, eff. October 1, 2015 and § 2, Ord. 3196, eff. December 7, 2021)