[Ord. No. 14.504 §2, 4-6-1981]
Water meters shall be furnished by the City to water consumers
and such meters shall, after being installed as well as before, be
and remain the property of the City and be under the control of the
City at all times.
When any person shall desire to use the City's water, he/she
shall make application to the Superintendent of Utilities, pay a minimum
connection or tap fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), payable
to the City Clerk, and take his/her receipt therefor. The City will
make the water tap (at the cost outlined above), and sell the property
owner or contractor the fittings to install the water service. The
City furnishes the meter (which remains the property of the City).
All other work shall be performed by or at the direction of the property
owner, in accordance with City-established guidelines for installation.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This ordinance also set forth that it
will take full force and effect 1-1-2019.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §4, 4-6-1981]
In all water connections hereafter made, a curb stop shall be placed at the curb line where a line drawn from the main at the tap at right angles with the main would cross the curb line, so that the water can be shut off from the premises connected, such curb stop to be furnished by the City and paid for by the water taker the same as for articles furnished under Section 705.020, hereof, and all pipe and connections from the main to the curb at which the curb stop is placed shall be copper pipe and connections and the pipe shall be at least three-fourths (¾) inch pipe.
[Ord. No. 14.500 §1, 11-7-1927]
In making water connections between the City water mains and
the property or premises of any water consumer, copper pipe and copper
connections, schedule plastic shall be used from the water main to
the curb stop, the pipe to be at least three-fourths (¾) inch
pipe. All three-quarter (¾) inch and one (1) inch services
shall be copper pipe. Any service of one and one-fourth (1¼)
inches and larger, schedule 40 plastic pipe can be used.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §5, 4-6-1981]
When any connection is made with the water mains of the City,
the water meter shall, when practical, be placed in the meter box
just inside the curb line.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §§6 —
7, 4-6-1981]
A.
Water
shall not be supplied to more than one (1) dwelling house or more
than one (1) storeroom or business house on one (1) meter except in
the case of adjacent storerooms occupied by the same tenant or party,
that is to say, a meter shall be required for each and every dwelling
house, building, storeroom and business house except in the case of
adjacent and adjoining rooms occupied by the same party, and the occupant
of each and every dwelling house, building, business house and storeroom
connected with the City water main is declared to be a water consumer;
provided that in the case of office or apartment buildings, the parties
that lease or rent said offices or apartments shall likewise be termed
water users or consumers and each separate user shall be required
to pay the applicable water and sewer charge. If more than one (1)
user, as defined herein uses a single water meter, each user shall
pay the minimum sewer charge for the water metered through the single
meter.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §8, 4-6-1981]
No person, unless properly authorized by the City, shall connect,
remove, repair or otherwise disturb any water meter.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §9, 4-6-1981]
All water meters and water fixtures and appurtenances on private
premises and connected with the City water system shall be open to
inspection by the employees of the City at all reasonable and ordinary
hours, and leaky service pipe or other defective appliances shall
be repaired by the water consumer, on notice from the City, and a
failure to repair such defective pipe or appliances shall entitle
the City to shut off the water from such consumer.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §10, 4-6-1981]
No person shall turn on the water supply to a premises from which supply has been shut off without authorization from the City. Any violation of this Section shall be punished as set out in Section 100.040 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 14.511 §§1 —
2, 1-3-1989]
The responsibility for and maintenance of any and all water
fixtures, appurtenances, mains or pipes from the position where the
water main is located to and into the customer's home or place of
business, with the exception of the water meter, shall rest with the
water customer. Said water meter shall be and is maintained and owned
by the City of California, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 14.504 §12, 4-6-1981]
In the event any meter, for any cause, shall fail to register
the amount of water used by the consumer, said consumer shall pay
the City for such amount which such meter showed was used during the
quarter previous to the quarter in which such meter fails to register.
