(A) The connection from the main to the curb stop shall be placed at least five feet below the level of the ground and the service pipe shall be laid sufficiently waving so that it shall be at least one foot longer than if laid in a straight line and shall be placed in such manner as to prevent rupture or breakage from settling of the ground. All service pipes shall be of type K copper tubing and shall be of not less than one inch nominal diameter.
(B) Shut off boxes or buffalo boxes shall be placed on every service pipe, and shall be located one foot inside the property line. Such boxes shall be located so that they are easily accessible and shall be protected from frost.
(C) No person, whether owner or occupant in possession or control of any building, structure or premises into which water is supplied through the village waterworks system shall be allowed, without written permission from the President and Board of Trustees of the village, to supply other persons or families or to supply water from such building or premises to any other building, structure or premises. The supply of water to a building, structure or premises of any person who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be shut off and stopped forthwith, and the water shall not again be turned on to such building, structure or premises from which it was cut off until there shall have been paid to the village such sum of money as the President and Board of Trustees of said village shall deem properly due the village.
(D) If after the water supply shall have been turned on to any building, structure or premises, it shall be found by any officer or employee of the village that fraudulent representations have been made by the applicant for such water supply or that water is being used in or upon such building, structure or premises for purposes not set forth in the application made for such water supply or that there is willful and unreasonable use or waste of water, the Superintendent or such employee of the village as he shall designate shall have the authority and it shall be his duty to cut off and stop the supply of water to such building, structure or premises forthwith, and the water shall not be turned on to such building, structure or premises until the person or persons responsible for such fraudulent representation or for such use of water or wilful or unreasonable waste thereof, shall pay the village such additional sum of money for such water supply or on account of such unreasonable waste of water as the President and Board of Trustees shall find properly to be due the village. Every person supplied with water from the village waterworks system shall, at his or her own cost and expense, have installed and kept in repair all pipes leading from the curb stop to his or her building, structure or premises as are supplied with water through such service pipe.
(E) Each water service pipe shall be connected with the water main and shall extend horizontally at right angles with the water main to a point at least 20 feet from the center line of the street and shall there be provided with a bronze curb stop one foot inside the property line. The curb stop must be at least one-inch in diameter to be installed within a telescopic shut-off box of the best quality of cast iron or first grade steel pipe, or curb stop may be installed in standard meter pit.
(F) The watermain must be tapped at an angle of 45 degrees with the vertical, and the corporation stop must be turned so that the T handle will be on top.
(G) Excavations for installing service pipes or repairing the same shall be made in compliance with the ordinance provisions relating to making excavations in streets (§ 51.015). Provided, that is shall be unlawful to place any service pipe in the same excavation with, or directly over, any drain or sewer pipe.
(H) During the construction of any building and before any water is installed as is herein provided, the contractor so constructing the building may be permitted to use municipal water supply by making application to the Village Clerk and paying a flat rate prescribed by the President and Board of Trustees.
(Ord. 89-12-B, passed 12-26-89) Penalty, see § 51.999