(A) Each user shall provide the City Waterworks a place for the placement of a meter or other reasonable or necessary appliance as determined by the City Waterworks. The water meter will be supplied at the expense of the City Waterworks. The user shall provide the City Waterworks ready access to the meter for reading and maintenance.
(B) Each separate living unit built or established following a renovation shall have a separate water meter. For purposes of this paragraph, a separate living unit shall be defined as any area occupied as a residence which has water service piped into it and sewage removed from it, as well as a door separating that living unit from the balance of the structure.
(C) Unless otherwise specified in a contract between the user and the City Waterworks, the water supplied shall be measured by a meter or meters of standard manufacture, furnished and installed on the premises by the City Waterworks in accordance with applicable standards of the City Waterworks and any appropriate regulating agency having jurisdiction over the City Waterworks.
(D) All meters or other appliances and equipment furnished by and at the expense of the City Waterworks shall be and remain the sole property of the City Waterworks unless expressly provided otherwise, in writing. The user shall protect all meters and other city owned property from freezing and other loss or damage. No one, who is not an agent of the City Waterworks shall tamper with or remove the meter, curb stop or other city owned property, or allow another person, who is not an agent of the City Waterworks, to tamper with or remove the meter, curb stop or other city owned property.
('74 Code, § 50.11) (Ord. 1357, passed 4-1-46; Am. Ord. 98-5, passed 4-13-98; Am. Ord. 99-8, passed 8-23-99) Penalty, see § 10.99