A. Authorized Personnel Only: No person, except one duly authorized by the Superintendent or Fire Department, shall open, close, turn on, turn off, interfere with, attach any pipe or hose to or connect anything with any fire hydrant, standpipe, stopcock, or meter belonging to the City; nor shall any person make any connection with any water main or water pipe belonging to the City water supply system without due authority first having been obtained.
B. Backflow Device: For other than fire suppression and fire hydrant testing, an approved backflow device or appropriate air gap will be required on any vehicle or equipment that will be connecting to any hydrant or any appurtenances of the City's whether its metered or not.
C. Hydrant Meter Permit Required; Fee; Penalty: For other than fire suppression and fire hydrant testing, a hydrant meter permit is required of any person desiring to use a fire hydrant. The minimum charge shall be thirty five dollars ($35.00) or the actual cost of the water consumed, whichever is greater. A deposit fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00), refundable upon removal by the City of the undamaged meter and backflow device, and finding the hydrant undamaged, shall be required before refunding said deposit. Anyone found using a hydrant without a permit or an approved backflow device shall be assessed a civil penalty as follows:
First | $ 500.00 |
Second | 750.00 |
Third | 1,000.00 |
and shall be levied on the next billing period, to the business/property owner using the water illegally.
D. Access To Fire Hydrant: No person shall obstruct the ready access to any fire hydrant by placing around or thereon any stone, brick, lumber, dirt or other material, attempt to draw water therefrom or wilfully or carelessly damage the same.
E. Damage Of Appurtenance: In the event that any person shall wilfully, carelessly or otherwise damage or break any fire hydrant, street standpipe, public drinking fountain, water main or other appurtenance connected with the City water supply system, he/she shall at once report the occurrence to the Superintendent or police with his/her name and address and shall give such undertaking as may be required of him/her that he/she will pay the cost of the repairs or replacement made necessary thereto. (Ord. 659, 9-27-1994)