(A) This chapter concerns the system of waterworks of the city and establishes the water rates, rules, regulations and penalties for the government of water consumers, contractors, licensed plumbers and others.
(B) All rules, regulations and ordinances of the city governing water usage shall be considered a part of the contract with every person who is supplied with water through the water system of the city and every such person by taking water shall be considered to express his, her or their assent to be bound thereby and whenever any of them are violated or such others as the Council may hereafter adopt, the water shall be cut off from the building or place of violation.
(C) No person shall willfully or carelessly break, injure, mar, deface, interfere with or disturb any building, machinery, apparatus, fixtures, attachments or appurtenances of the waterworks of said city, or any public or private hydrant or stop cock, meter, water supply or service pipe, or any part thereof; nor shall any person deposit anything in any stop cock box or commit any act tending to obstruct or impair the intended use of any of the above mentioned property.
(D) All the hydrants erected in said city for the purpose of extinguishing fires are hereby declared to be public hydrants and no person (other than the members of the Fire Department and then only for the uses and purposes of said Department, or persons specially authorized by the Council, and then only in the exercise of the authority delegated by the Council) shall open any of said hydrants or attempt to draw water from the same, or at any time uncover or remove any protection from any of the hydrants of said city, or in any manner interfere with any of the hydrants.
(1) No person authorized to open hydrants shall delegate his or her authority to another, or let out or suffer any person to take away the wrenches furnished him or her, or suffer the same to be taken from any house of said city except for the purposes strictly connected with the Fire Department, or as they accompany hose trucks on occasions of fires.
(2) If proprietors of lumber yards, factories, halls, stores, elevators, warehouses, hotels or public buildings, or regular consumers of water from the waterworks, wish to lay large pipes with hydrants and hose couplings to be used only in case of fire, they will be permitted to connect with the street mains at their own expense upon the application and will be allowed to use water for fire purposes only, free of charge. Such connections must be made under the supervision of the City Superintendent.
(Prior Code, § 4.03.01) (Ord. 226, passed - -; Ord. 731, passed - -) Penalty, see § 52.99