(A) Restroom and shower facilities. Public, semi-public, and governmental restroom and shower facilities shall post at least one water conservation sign in each restroom and shower facility not less than 8 inches by 11 inches. Such entities may use a town-provided sign or develop their own sign using town-provided text, the text of which shall cite this subchapter. A PUBLIC FACILITY shall not include those facilities used solely by the employees of an entity. A SEMI-PUBLIC FACILITY shall include all private clubs and fraternal organizations.
(B) Lodging guest rooms. Hotels, motels and other lodging facilities shall provide a water conservation informational card or brochure in a visible location in each guest room. Such facilities may use town-provided literature or develop their own using town-provided text. Lodging facilities shall not provide daily linen and towel changing for those guests staying multiple nights unless a guest specifically requests each day that the linen and towels be changed.
(C) Nurseries. Retail plant nurseries shall provide their end-use customers with town-provided low water use landscape literature and water efficient irrigation guidelines at the time of sale of any outdoor perennial plants. An END-USE CUSTOMER is the person or persons who will ultimately own the plant material. A landscape contractor or architect is not an end-use customer. In order to facilitate the purchasing of low water use plants, nurseries are strongly encouraged to tag or sign their low water use plants that require little to no supplemental watering once established. [For the sale of all turf or grass seed or sod, the end-use customer shall be given town-provided literature indicating the restrictions to planting water consumptive turf. The establishment of turf, from either sod or seed or expansion of existing turf areas, is expressly prohibited.] Signs provided by the retailer or the town shall be prominently displayed indicating this restriction on turf. Landscape contractors, maintenance companies, and architects shall provide their prospective clients with town-provided low water use landscape literature and water efficient irrigation guidelines at the time of presenting a service contract to the prospective client. Landscape professionals are strongly encouraged to educate their customers regarding the operation of their timed irrigation systems.
(D) Real estate transactions. Title companies and other organizations which close real estate transactions are encouraged to provide each person or entity purchasing property within the town with town-provided indoor and outdoor conservation literature at the time of closing.
(E) Permits. Departments of the town shall provide indoor and outdoor conservation literature to:
(1) All persons applying for a building permit; and
(2) All customers initiating new water service from the Water Division.
(Res. 2767, passed 4-17-14; Am. Ord. 846, passed 4-17-14)
Editor’s note:
As set forth in Res. 2767, the bracketed portion of division (C) shall be repealed upon the Water Division Manager indicating to the Council at a public meeting that water from the C.C. Cragin Reservoir is available for use in the town’s water system.