[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Waldwick 8-24-65 as Ord. No. 4-65.]
The purpose of this ordinance is to limit, restrict and regulate
the use of water by customers of the Borough of Waldwick Water Department
during periods of emergency caused by drought, lack of proper pumping
equipment, storage or other facilities or by acts of God or of public
enemies, and to prevent the waste thereof at all times.
As used in this ordinance, shall mean any natural person,
individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal
entity.
As used in this ordinance, shall mean that water obtained,
delivered and supplied to any "person" by the Borough of Waldwick
Water Department.
As used in this ordinance, shall mean that period of time
publicly declared by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Waldwick
to be an emergency period of "water" shortage or potential "water"
shortage because of drought, lack of proper pumping equipment, storage
or other facilities or because of acts of God or of public enemies.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Waldwick are hereby authorized
to declare that an "emergency" exists.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any water during
any emergency period except in accordance with the rules and regulations
promulgated by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Waldwick after
the publication thereof in the official newspaper designated as such
for the Borough of Waldwick. It shall be unlawful for any person intentionally
to waste water at any time or to maintain any plumbing fixture or
other device which is in need of repair and is discharging water unnecessarily
any wastefully.
If any person shall violate the provisions contained in the
second sentence of Ch. 93-3 of this ordinance, he shall be served
by the Borough of Waldwick Water Department with a written notice
stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time
limit (not less than ten (10) days) for the satisfactory correction
thereof. If any person so served with such notice shall, within the
period of time stated in such notice or any lawfully issued extension
thereof, fail to permanently cease all such violations, he shall be
subject to all the penalties hereinafter provided.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a violation thereof and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200)
for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue
shall be deemed a separate offense. In addition, if any person, whether
he be an inhabitant of the Borough of Waldwick or an inhabitant of
any other municipality, who is supplied water by the Borough of Waldwick
Water Department, shall violate any provisions of this ordinance,
the Borough of Waldwick Water Department shall have the right, and
it is hereby empowered, to cut off the supply of water to the premises
and meter upon and from which said violation shall have taken place,
for such period or periods of time as shall be deemed necessary to
secure compliance with all the terms of this ordinance.
This ordinance expressly repeals Borough of Waldwick Ord. No.
10-57, entitled "An Ordinance Empowering the Mayor and Council to
Regulate and Ban the Use of Water for Certain Purposes During Periods
of Acute Shortage Thereof in the Borough of Waldwick, and Providing
Penalties for the Violation of Such Regulations and Bans," enacted
on June 27, 1957.
This ordinance shall take effect upon adoption and publication
as required by law.
