(a) During Stage 6, the following mandatory restrictions on the use of potable water shall be applicable when the City Council determines that it is likely that the City will suffer a reduction of more than fifty percent (50%) in its water supplies or it has otherwise been requested or directed by executive order or regulation of a state agency to reduce its potable water consumption or production by a specified amount. A water shortage emergency may be declared whenever the City Council finds and determines that the ordinary demands and requirements of water consumers cannot be satisfied without depleting the water supply of the City to the extent that there would be insufficient water for human consumption, sanitation, and fire protection. A water shortage emergency may include an immediate emergency. An immediate emergency may occur as a result of a breakage or failure of a dam, pump, pipe line or conduit, a major earthquake, large-scale fire, or other so called "Act of God" which may have serious impacts on the City's available water supply.
(1) All the prohibitions and restrictions in § 6-8.30 shall be in effect provided that the more restrictive measures noted in this section shall take precedence.
(2) Unless otherwise permitted by a resolution of the City Council, there shall be no use of potable water for irrigation of outdoor landscape or turf.
(3) Commercial nurseries shall be prohibited from the use of potable water for irrigation of outdoor, landscape and turf except by use of a hand-held hose equipped with a positive shutoff nozzle.
(4) The following nonessential uses of water shall be prohibited: the filling, cycling, filtering, or refilling swimming pools, spas, Jacuzzis, fountains or other like devices.
(b) At any time during Stage 6, if the City Council determines that additional reductions in the amount the potable water being used by water customers are necessary, it may adopt a resolution establishing water use limitations and enforce those water use limitations by the imposition of a volumetric penalty established therein.
(§ 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)