(A) (1) 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 now is 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 City Council may see fit to do so.
(2) The rules, regulations, and water rates, hereinafter named, shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for water service 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 the consumer shall constitute a contract between the consumer and the municipality, to which the contract both parties are bound.
(3) If the consumer shall violate any of the provisions of the contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the City Council may hereafter adopt, the Water Commissioner or his or her agent, may cut off or disconnect the water service from the building or premise or place of such violation. No further connection for water service to the building, premise, or place shall again be made, save or except by order of the Commissioner or his or her agent.
(`77 Code, § 3-104)
(B) (1) Contracts for water service are not transferable.
(2) Any person wishing to change from one location to another shall make a new application and sign a new contract. If any consumer moves from the premise where service is furnished, or if the premise is destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall at once inform the Water Commissioner who shall cause the water service to be shut off at the premise.
(3) If the consumer fails to give such notice, he or she shall be charged for all water used on the premise until the Water Commissioner is otherwise advised of such circumstances.
(`77 Code, § 3-117) Penalty, see § 10.99