[R.O. 2008 §705.400; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
See Section 515.020.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees (20°), expressed in milligrams per liter
(mg/l).
The ordinances duly adopted by the Governing Body of the
City which authorize the issuance of revenue bonds.
A type of water service consisting of a tapping sleeve and
valve, a valve box and meter stop valves and drain connections. The
connection can be used for domestic water service or private fire
protection service.
The cutting of threads directly into the walls of a water
main and the insertion of a corporation cock or corporate saddle.
This type of tap is used to provide a tap service connection.
Any person, persons, firm, agency, institution or corporation
legally using utility service supplied by the City.
A pipe with appurtenances used to conduct water from the
point of connection to the street service connection to that portion
of the interior piping of a building which is regulated by the Plumbing
Code.
A cash deposit made by an applicant prior to connection of
water service or sewer service and held in escrow by the City as a
security or guarantee of payment of bills until the final bill or
unless sooner returned to the customer.
The executive appointed by the City Manager who directs the
combined waterworks and sewerage system.
An investigation and review of work performed by others under
a permit by the Water Department.
A charge for connecting to City water mains based on the
front footage of a lot or parcel of land on which a building, for
which applicant desires water service, is located.
A mechanical device or devices to measure and record the
quantity of water supplied to the customer.
An assembly connected in the service line which consists
of a meter well or pit, yoke, piping, valves, bypass (when required),
cover, lid and meter.
Any contributor to or user of the system whose lot, parcel
of real estate or building is served by a water meter larger than
three-fourths (¾) inch.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
three hundred (300) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not
more than three hundred (300) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the system for
materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for
managing and maintaining the system to achieve the capacity and performance
for which the system was designed and constructed; provided however,
that the terms "operation and maintenance" shall also have the meaning
given to them by the bond ordinances and in the event of any conflict
in the meaning hereinabove prescribed and the term of the bond ordinances,
the bond ordinances shall govern.
A dwelling, apartment building, building or group of buildings
on a lot, tract or other parcel of land, under single ownership or
lease, eligible for individually metered water service.
A water conduit whose ownership is other than the City of
Maryville.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
system to maintain the capacity and performance for which the system
was designed and constructed; provided however, that the term "replacement"
shall also have the meaning given to it by the bond ordinances and
in the event of any conflict in the meaning hereinabove prescribed
and the terms of the bond ordinances, the bond ordinances shall govern.
Any contributor to or user of the system whose lot, parcel
or real estate or building is served by a three-fourths (¾)
inch water meter or less.
All bonds or other obligations of the City now outstanding
or hereinafter issued which are payable solely from system revenues.
A charge which is applicable to an application for new water
service to premises never before connected with the City's water system.
A water conduit, two (2) inches or larger, that supplies
water directly to a customer through service connection.
Is mandatory; MAY — is permissive.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
A Mueller or equivalent traffic fire hydrant which has a
valve of five and one-fourth (5¼) inch or larger, two and one-half
(2½) inch nozzles and one (1) four and one-half (4½)
inch nozzle with National Standard threads, conforming to A.W.W.A.
Standard C-502.
A pipe with appurtenances used to conduct water from the
main to the point of connection to the customer's service pipe, including
tap service connections or branch service piping.
The sewerage system of the City consisting of all properties
and assets, real and personal and tangible and intangible, of the
City now or hereafter existing, which are held or used for the purpose
of collecting and treating sewerage including, but not limited to,
the City's treatment facilities and all collection lines and equipment
connected therewith.
All income and revenues derived by the City from the operation
of the system.
A type of water service consisting of a corporation cock,
copper pipe, curb stop and box, when required, and meter yoke with
a meter stop and waste valve.
That part of the system consisting of any devices and systems
for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal
sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial wastes. These include
intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual
systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances;
extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof;
elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby
treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including
site acquisition of the land, that will be an integral part of the
treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting
from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary
storage of such compost and land used for the storage of treated wastewater
in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method
or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating
or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste
in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which the treatment facilities
will be operated.
That portion of the total system revenues which is levied
and collected in a proportional and adequate manner to pay the cost
of operation and maintenance, to pay the principal of and interest
on the revenue bonds and to meet all requirements of the bond ordinances,
including the cost of replacement.
The Water Department or combined waterworks and sewerage
system of the City.
Either water service, sewer service or the combination of
both water service and sewer service.
The City of Maryville, Missouri, the combined waterworks
and sewerage system or a combination of one (1) or both thereof together
with their officers, agents and employees.
The water pipe, fitting, valves and boxes installed as an
integral part of the distribution system, but not including fire hydrant
units and water service piping.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Maryville or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Maryville.
The piping installed from the water main to that portion
of the interior piping of a building which is regulated by the Plumbing
Code.
The written document issued by the City Manager or his/her
duly authorized representative authorizing work to be performed.
[R.O. 2008 §705.410; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
Permanently
assigned house numbers shall be obtained from the City building inspection
office before application for a utility service connection is accepted
and shall be suitably displayed on the property in a visible location
before the utility service connection is installed.
B.
Application
for utility service outside City limits shall not be accepted without
an agreement that pre-dates this Title.
C.
No
meter is to be set at premises without proper and correct identification
of the premises.
D.
If
a house number of identification is changed for any reason, the Water
Department office shall be notified of such change.
[R.O. 2008 §705.420; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
Prior
to supplying water service, all advance payments must be paid or satisfactory
arrangements made for the payment thereof. The following are hereby
deemed advanced payments:
1.
Main contribution charge. No person shall be allowed
to connect to a City water main without first filing a written application
to do so with the City Manager or his/her authorized representative.
If said written application is accepted by the City Manager or his/her
authorized representative, such connection shall be permitted after
the applicant has first paid the City the charge of three dollars
fifty cents ($3.50) per foot for the front footage of the lot, lots
or parcels that abut the main and on which a building for which the
applicant desires water service is located; provided, no front footage
connection charge shall be required for new water service connection
to mains installed at the expense of a developer or subdivider, except
when a water main extension contract between the City and a developer
or subdivider requires such front footage connection charge.
B.
If
there is a main readily accessible to the property to be connected
and the City Manager or his/her authorized representative approves
the application and all advance payments have been received or satisfactory
arrangements made therefor, water service will be provided to the
applicant's property. If the application is rejected, the City shall
return the advance payments to the applicant.
[R.O. 2008 §705.430; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
All water piping and equipment on the customer's premises must
conform to the Plumbing Code of the City and no water service, either
within or without the City limits, will be furnished where an inspection
reveals lack of conformance to the Plumbing Code; provided however,
that the City shall not be deemed to have assumed hereby any duty
or responsibility to inspect, repair or maintain any water piping
or equipment on the customer's side of the point of delivery as hereinafter
defined in these rules and regulations.
[R.O. 2008 §705.440; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
With the exception of wholesale water customers as determined
by the City, all water service shall be furnished on a metered basis
to each customer and shall be for the sole use of such customer on
the premises described in the application for water service and shall
not be submetered for the purpose of reselling the water. The Director
of Public Works or such other officers or representatives of the City
as may be designated from time to time shall cause all water meters
to be read and bills for utility services to be rendered monthly as
services accrue.
[R.O. 2008 §705.450; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
A separate
meter shall be installed for each dwelling, apartment building, business
establishment or property served with water. Each of the following
types of facilities shall comprise a metering unit and be metered
individually.
B.
Owners
of multiple-family dwelling buildings or apartments with two (2) or
more dwelling units and mobile home parks may install a single water
meter for each dwelling unit or mobile home.
[R.O. 2008 §705.460; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
The
customer shall provide the City's duly authorized representative access
to the customer's premises at all reasonable hours for the purpose
of reading meters; examining, testing, changing or moving any water
equipment, meters, apparatus or piping of the City; measuring the
customer's water demand; or inspecting for cross-connections.
B.
The
customer shall agree that he/she will not permit any person who is
not an agent of the City, or otherwise lawfully entitled to do so,
to inspect, remove or tamper with the City's meters, material or appliances
installed on his/her premises.
[R.O. 2008 §705.470; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
Nothing
shall be attached or fastened to or placed upon any meter, fixture
or equipment of the City Water Department, unless prior permission
in writing shall have been given by the City; and the City shall not
be liable for any injury, damage or loss arising out of or resulting
from any such attachment to its meters, fixtures or equipment.
B.
Customers
shall be held responsible for damage to meters, fixtures and equipment
left by the City in their care, when such damage is caused directly
or indirectly by the customer or his/her officers, agents or employees.
[R.O. 2008 §705.480; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
Each customer shall notify the City promptly of any defect in
water piping equipment or apparatus of the City or any existing condition
which might affect water service to the customer or might be dangerous
to persons or property.
[R.O. 2008 §705.490; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
No
customer shall have on his/her premises any water piping connection,
apparatus or device which prevents the water meter or meters on such
premises from registering or recording properly all water used or
to be used or which enables such customer to obtain or use any water
without same having been registered or recorded by a water meter or
meters of the City.
B.
The
City shall have the right, upon discovering the use of such illegal
devices, to discontinue water service to such customer immediately
and without notice.
[R.O. 2008 §705.500; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
The customer shall notify the City immediately of any change
or changes in connected load or in water equipment on the customer's
premises, which might affect water service to such customer or to
any other water customer of the City; and the City shall have no duty,
obligation or responsibility arising out or resulting from the customer's
failure to so notify the City.
[R.O. 2008 §705.510; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
Any
customer of the City whose meter is located within the confines of
any building or any other location, i.e., tiles, etc., other than
a City approved meter set or pit, shall pay for the costs of the labor
and parts necessary for the repair of the meter damaged by freezing
and the water customer shall pay the costs of labor and parts necessary
for the repair of the meter, regardless of location, if damaged by
hot water backing up into the meter or any other acts or omissions
of the customer or his/her employees.
B.
If repairs to a meter are made as a result of any damage by any of the causes mentioned in Subsection (A) hereof, the customer shall be sent an itemized statement of the labor and repairs necessary to repair the meter and if said statement is not paid within thirty (30) days after the rendition thereof, the City shall disconnect the customer from utility service. If the service is disconnected, the customer shall pay the regular charge for disconnection and connection if he/she desires to pay the account and receive utility service.
[R.O. 2008 §705.520; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
The
City shall have no duty, obligation or responsibility with respect
to water piping, appliances, equipment or apparatus on the premises
of any utility customers, other than to provide a water meter and
maintain a street service connection from the distribution system
of the City waterworks to the point of connection.
B.
Nothing
in this Article shall be construed to impose or place upon the City
any obligation, responsibility or duty to inspect, maintain or repair
any water piping, apparatus, appliance or equipment (excepting only
such metering facilities, if any, owned by the City as may be installed
on the customer's premises) on the customer's side of the point of
connection.
C.
No
authorized representative of the City shall have any right or authority
to make any promise, commitment or agreement not expressly authorized
in this Article.
[R.O. 2008 §705.530; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
The City shall not be liable for any injury, damage or loss
resulting from the use of water on the customer's premises or from
the presence, location, maintenance or use of any water piping, fixtures
or equipment on the customer's premises.
[R.O. 2008 §705.540; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
The
City shall make every reasonable effort to eliminate interruption
of service and when such interruption does occur, will endeavor to
establish service with the shortest possible delay. Whenever the service
is interrupted, all customers affected by such interruption will be
notified in advance whenever it is possible to do so.
B.
The
City reserves the right to shut off the water in its mains, at any
time, without notice for making repairs, extensions or alterations,
but will so far as possible notify customers of the intent to shut
off.
C.
The
City shall not be responsible for any damage occasioned by the shut
off of water mains for the purpose of making repairs, extensions or
connections or for any other reason beyond the control of the City.
No claim shall be made against the City and no person shall be entitled
to any damages by reason of the breaking of any pipe or by reason
of any other interruption of the supply of water caused by mechanical
breakdown or by other causes beyond control of the City.
D.
The
City will not be responsible for damages caused by turbid water which
may be occasioned by cleaning of pipes or stand pipes or the opening
or closing of any gates or hydrants or any other cause which is not
the result of negligence on the part of the City.
[R.O. 2008 §705.550; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
Nothing in this Article shall prohibit the City from entering
into private contracts for the construction of water mains or sewer
lines that may be necessary or expedient to the best interests of
the City.
[R.O. 2008 §705.560; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
The City shall not receive application for water and/or sewerage
services outside the City limits.
[R.O. 2008 §705.570; Ord. No. 6776 §§1 — 2, 8-22-2005; Ord. No. 7102 §§1 — 2, 4-13-2009]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with any water main or
to turn water on or off at any street valve, corporation cock, curb
box, fire hydrant or other street connection or disconnect or remove
or change any meter or to make any connection to the waterworks system
without written permission from the City Manager or his/her authorized
representative.
B.
It
shall be unlawful to reconnect service when it has been disconnected
for non-payment of a bill for service, until such bill has been paid
in full, including the cutoff and re-connection fee.
C.
It
shall be unlawful for any person, without written consent of the City
Manager or his/her authorized representative, to open any fire hydrant
except for the legitimate purpose of extinguishment of fire.
D.
It
shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to trespass upon the
dam or embankment enclosing any of the waterworks reservoir system,
except for the sole purpose of fishing from such reservoir.
E.
It
shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to drive or cause to
be driven any vehicle over or on the embankments of the reservoirs.
F.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to enter into any finished water
storage facility of the City, such as, but not limited to, the elevated
storage tanks and clear walls of the City.
G.
No
person shall climb upon or mark upon any part of the City's waterworks
system, unless specifically authorized to do so by the City Manager
or his/her authorized representative.
H.
Any
person committing unlawful acts prohibited by this Section shall be
guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction shall be imposed
a fine as the Municipal Code provides.
[Ord. No. 7416 §1, 5-14-2012; Ord. No. 7664 §1, 8-25-2014]
A.
General Policy.
1.
Purpose. The purpose of this Section is:
2.
Application. This section shall apply to all
premises served by the public drinking water system of the City of
Maryville, Missouri.
3.
Policy.
a.
This section will be reasonably interpreted by the Water Purveyor.
It is the Purveyor's intent to ban the use of lead-based material
in the construction or modification of the City's drinking water system
or private plumbing connected to the City system. The cooperation
of all consumers is required to implement the ban.
b.
If, in the judgment of the Water Purveyor or his/her authorized
representative, lead-based materials have been used in new construction
or modifications after January 1, 1989, due notice shall be given
to the consumer. The consumer shall immediately comply by having the
lead-based materials removed from the plumbing system and replaced
with lead-free materials. If the lead-based materials are not removed
from the plumbing system, the Water Purveyor shall have the right
to discontinue water service to the premises.
B.
CONSUMER
LEAD FREE
1.
2.
LEAD-BASED MATERIALS
PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEM
WATER PURVEYOR
Definitions. The following definitions
shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this Section:
The owner (or person in control of any premises in the event
the property is the estate of a deceased person) supplied by or in
any manner connected to a public water system;
When used with respect to solder and flux, refers to solders
and flux containing not more than two tenths percent (0.2%) lead;
and
When used with respect to pipes and pipe fittings, refers to
pipes and pipe fittings containing not more than twenty-five one-hundredths
of a percent (0.25%) lead.
Any material containing lead in excess of the quantities
specified in the definition of "lead free."
Any publicly or privately owned water system supplying water
to the general public which is satisfactory for drinking water to
the general public which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary and
domestic purposes and meets the requirements of the Missouri Department
of Natural Resources; and
The owner, operator, or individual in responsible charge
of a public water system.
C.
Lead Banned From Drinking Water Plumbing.
1.
No water service connection shall be installed or maintained
to any premises where lead-based materials were used in new construction
or modifications of the drinking water plumbing after January 1, 1989.
2.
If a premises is found to be in violation of this Section, water
service shall be discontinued until such time that the drinking water
plumbing is lead free.
