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Every person or persons desiring a supply of water must make application therefor to the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer, who may require any applicant to make a service deposit in such amount as has been set by the governing body and placed on file at the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. Water may not be supplied to any house or private service pipe except upon the order of the governing body.
(Prior Code, § 3-103)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-537
The Department shall not supply water service to any person outside the corporate limits without special permission from the governing body; provided, that the entire cost of laying mains, service pipe and supply pipe shall be paid by the consumer. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the municipality to provide water service to nonresidents.
(Prior Code, § 3-104)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-2701
The municipality, through its Water Department, shall furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises abut a street or alley in which a commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid. The municipality may furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises do not abut a street or alley in which a municipal commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid and may also furnish water to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate limits of the municipality, as and when, according to law, the governing body may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations and water rates hereinafter named in this chapter shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for water service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every consumer now or hereafter served. Without further formality, the making of application on the part of any applicant or the use or consumption of water service by present consumers thereof and the furnishing of water service to said consumer shall constitute a contract between the consumer and the municipality, to which said contract both parties are bound. If the consumer shall violate any of the provisions of said contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the governing body may hereafter adopt, the governing body or its designated representative may cut off or disconnect the water service from the building or premises or place of such violation. No further connection for water service to said building, premises or place shall again be made except by order of the governing body or its designated representative.
(Prior Code, § 3-105)
(A) Procedure.
(1) In making excavations in streets, alleys or sidewalks for the purpose of installing pipe, or making repairs, the paving, stones and earth must be removed and deposited in a manner that will occasion the least inconvenience to the public and provide for adequate drainage. No person shall leave an excavation made in the street, alley or sidewalk open at any time without a barricade, and during the night, warning lights.
(2) After service pipes are laid, the streets, alleys and sidewalks shall be restored to good condition. If the excavation in any street, alley or sidewalk is left open or unfinished for a period of 24 hours or more, the governing body or its designated representative shall have the duty to finish or correct the work, and all expenses so incurred shall be charged to the consumer. All installations or repairs of pipes require an inspection by the governing body or its designated representative. The inspection shall be made when connections or repairs are completed and before the pipes are covered. It is the customer’s responsibility to notify the governing body or its designated representative at the time the work is ready for inspection.
(3) All installations shall be done strictly in accordance with the rules, regulations and specifications prescribed for such installation by the governing body.
(Prior Code, § 3-106)
(B) Expense.
(1) The expense of bringing water service from the main to the place of disbursement shall be paid by the consumer. The consumer shall pay the municipality a tap fee in the amount established by ordinance and on file in the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer.
(2) The consumer shall be required to pay the expense of procuring the services of a plumber and shall pay the expense of furnishing and installing pipe, trenching and the necessary labor to bring water service from the main to the place of disbursement.
(Prior Code, § 3-107)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-537 and 17-542
(A) A cross-connection control officer shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees to oversee the enforcement of this section. Said officer shall be responsible for reviewing the surveys submitted by the customers of the Municipal Water Department and determining if a backflow prevention device is required to comply with 179 Neb. Admin. Code, Ch. 2 (regulations governing public water supply systems).
(B) All customers of the Municipal Water Department shall be required to report to the cross-connection control officer any potential cross-connections which may be on their premises. This report shall be made at least every five years.
(C) (1) A customer of the Municipal Water Department may be required by the cross-connection control officer to install and maintain a properly located backflow prevention device at the customer’s expense appropriate to the potential hazard as set forth in 179 Neb. Admin. Code, Ch. 2 and approved by the cross-connection control officer.
(2) The customer shall make application to the cross-connection control officer to install a required backflow prevention device on a form provided by the municipality. The application shall contain at a minimum the name and address of the applicant, the type of backflow prevention device to be installed, including make and model number, and the location of the proposed installation.
(3) The cross-connection control officer shall approve or disapprove the application based on whether such installation will protect the municipal water distribution system from potential backflow and backsiphonage hazards.
(4) When a testable backflow prevention device shall be required, the customer shall also certify to the municipality at least one time annually that the backflow prevention device has been tested by a State Health and Human Services System Grade VI certified water operator. Such certification shall be made on a form available at the office of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer.
(5) Any decision of the cross-connection control officer may be appealed to the Board of Trustees, which decision shall be final.
(D) Any customer refusing to report on possible cross-connections on his or her premises, refusing to install the necessary backflow prevention device or failing to otherwise comply with the provisions of this section may have his or her water service disconnected. Any customer who has had his or her service disconnected for violation of this section shall be subject to a $50 reconnect fee to have the service reinstated after supplying proof that a potential cross-connection has been eliminated or properly protected.
(Ord. 3-120, passed 4-1-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) The municipality shall repair or replace, as the case may be, all supply pipe between the commercial main and the stop box. The customer at his or her own expense shall replace and keep in repair all service pipe from the stop box to the place of dispersal.
(B) When leaks occur in service pipes, the governing body or its designated representative shall shut off water service until the leak is repaired at the expense of the customer to the satisfaction of the governing body or its designated representative.
(Prior Code, § 3-108)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-537
No consumer shall supply water to other families or allow them to take water from his or her premises, nor after water is supplied into a building shall any person make or employ a plumber or other person to make a tap or connection with the pipe upon the premises for alteration, extension or attachment without the written permission of the governing body.
(Prior Code, § 3-111) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-537
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