The Town shall furnish with each permit for
each water connection, upon the payment of the fee hereinafter prescribed,
a water meter of a size and type deemed by the Town to be suitable
for the installation contemplated. The water meter shall remain under
the ownership of and will be maintained by the Town of New Windsor.
To defray the cost of such meter, the supervision of installation
and the maintenance thereof, there shall be charged a fee in such
amount as the Mayor and Council shall by resolution provide.
The Mayor and Council shall determine the size
and type of any water meter and the type and location of the settings.
An outside meter setting will be used, except where obstructions or
other considerations require that they be placed inside the building,
in which case they shall be set as the Town shall require. When the
water meter is set inside the cellar of the building, the property
owner will be held responsible for the protection of the meter from
injury due to freezing. Repairs and replacements of meters so damaged
shall be at the expense of the property owner.
The outside meter housing or the curb box must
be installed so that the top is on the ground surface of the permanent
grade within the public right-of-way whenever possible. In order to
accomplish this, one of the following methods will be followed.
A. Where the curb and sidewalk do not exist, the property
owner shall indicate the final grade of the ground surface at which
an outside meter setting or a curb box is to be placed, and the structure
will be set at the grade given when it is installed. The water house
connection shall not be installed until such grade is given. If the
grade or location of the meter setting or the curb box is changed
due to a change in elevation of the ground from that originally indicated,
the property owner shall bear the expense of such change in grade
or location.
B. Where the curbs and sidewalks exist the top of the
center of the meter housing shall be placed at the straight line grade
between the back of the curb and the street edge of the sidewalk.
It is unlawful for any person not specifically
authorized by the Town to interfere with, remove, replace or tamper
with a meter or a meter seal.
No connection shall be made to any water service
pipe between the water main and the meter, except such bypass at the
Town may install. If such unlawful connection is found, the water
house connection will be cut off at the main until such unlawful connection
is disconnected and abandoned. Any expense to which the Town shall
be subjected, due to the above work, shall be paid for before service
is restored.
If it is found that such unlawful connection
has been made to bypass a detector check in order to illegally obtain
unmetered water, the detector check will be removed and replaced by
a suitable meter. Such removal and replacement shall be paid for before
service is restored.