(A) Upon the determination that such an emergency exists, the City Manager shall issue a proclamation declaring the emergency and setting out with particularity an order restricting use of water from the city system.
(1) The order may:
(a) Restrict water usage during certain periods of the day or week or according to any orderly and nondiscriminatory scheme; and
(b) Prohibit usages not essential to public health and safety.
(2) The order may be revised from time to time as the City Manager deems necessary.
(B) A duly proclaimed emergency shall continue and the terms of the proclamation shall be in force for 30 days or until such time as the City Manager cause to be published a proclamation that the emergency has ended, whichever is shorter, unless the Council, by resolution, approved by a majority of all its members votes to terminate the emergency and proclamation upon a different date.
(Prior Code, § 51.08)