A. Fire Or Alarm Of Fire: If there is a fire or an alarm of fire, it shall be the duty of every person or corporation responsible for the use of the water or in charge or control thereof to immediately stop and shut off the flow of such water until the fire has been extinguished or until it has been ascertained that the alarm was false.
B. Impending Fire: In case of conflagration or grave calamity of fire impending, the president of the board of trustees shall have the right and authority, by proclamation posted in five (5) public places in the village, to wholly suspend and prohibit, for such length of time as such exigency may require, the drawing or using of water for public or private purposes other than to meet such exigency.
C. Drought Or Other Urgency: Whenever, in the judgment of the president of the board of trustees, public exigency may require it, he shall have the right and authority, by proclamation published in some newspaper printed in the village or by posting such proclamation five (5) public places therein, to limit in respect of time or wholly suspend or prohibit for such length of time as such exigency shall require, the drawing or using of water for public or private fountains, for street or yard sprinkling, for washing houses, windows, verandas or vehicles or for any other purpose except for immediate domestic use, and it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to draw or use any water in violation of such proclamation. (1999 Code § 16.11)