The owner shall furnish and install shutoff
valves, a pressure-reducing valve if necessary, and all other required
accessories adjacent to and on the house side of the meter.
Authorized Department personnel shall have free
access during reasonable hours to all premises as required for the
purpose of examining, repairing, reading or removing meters. Owners
shall be responsible that access for reading meters is not obstructed
and shall remove any such obstruction when requested to do so by the
Department. Should the owner fail to comply with the Department request
within 24 hours, he will be billed at the maximum rate of use previously
observed for the particular service.