(A) All houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, commercial, recreation or other similar purposes is hereby required to be connected to the public water supply of the town. It shall be unlawful for any person to take water from any public hydrant or private pipe connected to the public water supply of the town for domestic, industrial, fire or other purposes without having previously contracted for such service. All privately held parcels shall pay a monthly water basic facility charge whether connected or not, unless the public water supply is not available at a location on or adjacent to the parcel.
(B) No person shall combine water from any private source with the town’s supply of water within any water distribution system whether inside or outside of any residence, commercial building or any accessory building.
(C) In the event the town discovers a violation of division (B) above, the town shall give ten days’ written notice to have the violation removed. In the event the violation is not removed within ten days, the town shall disconnect the town’s water supply until the violation has been removed. In addition thereto, the violator of division (B) above shall be punished in accordance with § 50.99.
(D) Notwithstanding anything else stated in this chapter, the town shall have no obligation to pay for and extend the public water supply system of the town to undeveloped lots that do not currently have such water service lines adjacent to them. Any such extension shall require an agreement between the town and the requesting property owner as to payment of the cost of the extension, in addition to the town’s approval of the specifications for construction as well as the final installation.
(E) As part of an agreement for the property owner to extend the water service lines to an undeveloped lot that does not currently have adjacent water service lines, the town reserves the right to require such property owner to construct water service lines to accommodate service to other adjacent properties along the same service line, at the property owner’s cost and expense, subject to reimbursement from other adjacent property owners as provided in division (F) below.
(F) If the town requires a property owner to construct water lines to accommodate water service to adjacent parcels, the town shall require the owner of each such adjacent parcel to compensate the constructing property owner for a pro rata cost of construction of the water line at the time the adjoining property owner submits an application to the town for water or sewer service. The pro rata cost of construction shall be determined by Town Council by dividing the final cost of constructing the water line extension by the number of buildable lots in which water service has been provided pursuant to division (E) above. To the extent sewer service is also extended pursuant to § 51.006, the construction of the sewer and water line extensions may be performed under the same construction contract. Assessment of a monthly water basic facility charge shall not relieve any property owner from the obligation to pay the pro rata cost of construction as provided herein.
(Prior Code, § 20-1) (Ord. passed 11-2-1969; Ord. passed 3-19-1996; Ord. passed 7-15-2008; Ord. passed 9-16-2008; Ord. passed 4-17-2012) Penalty, see § 50.99