(A) It shall be unlawful for any person during any period of extreme drought, in or about the city, to use within the city any water furnished and supplied by a public utility for the use of the city or its inhabitants for the following purposes:
(1) Watering or sprinkling any plot of ground, garden, lawn, street, or area in the city;
(2) Washing or cleaning any horse drawn or motor driven vehicle, building, dwelling, outhouse, or other structure;
(3) Providing water to any swimming pool or wading pool; and
(4) Recreation, as, for example, the spraying of children by water from a garden hose.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person during any period of extreme drought in or about the city wilfully or negligently to waste any water, whether by failure to wholly turn off a spigot after use or otherwise.
(C) An extreme drought shall exist within the purview of this section when the Common Council shall so find and enter such fact of record, and after publication of notice of such finding at least once in two newspapers of opposite politics published in the city; and such drought shall, within the purview of this section, continue to exist, after the entering of such fact of record and the publishing of notice thereof, until declared at an end by order entered of record by the Common Council.
(Prior Code, § 29-1) Penalty, see § 10.99
Charter reference:
Authority to authorize or prohibit the erection of waterworks, see Charter § 30
Statutory reference:
Authority to provide for the construction and maintenance of water drains and the like, see W. Va. Code 8-12-5(7), (8), (32), and (33)