[Prior code § 35-9]
A.
Whenever any water, curb or service connection from a water main
in a public street to property abutting on said street is abandoned
or is about to be abandoned by the owner of said abutting property
or whenever said connection becomes or is about to become dead or
obsolete by reason of the installation or use by the property owner
of larger or other water, curb or service connections or for any other
reason said connection in said public street is abandoned or about
to be abandoned or becomes dead or obsolete or is about to become
dead or obsolete, the owner of the abutting property to which said
abandoned, dead or obsolete water, curb or service connection is connected,
shall cause such abandoned, dead or obsolete connection to be disconnected
at the water main in said public street, alley or other location.
B.
All water services so abandoned shall be shut off at the valve or
corporation cock connected directly to the water main, cut off and
plugged or capped in an approved manner with calked plug, cap or bolted
flange, then clamped and bolted to and around the water main to preclude
any possibility of said valve or connection being forced apart by
the pressure in the main. Water services one inch and less in diameter
need not be bolted and clamped.
[Prior code § 35-10]
No street excavation permit as required by separate ordinance of the City shall be issued for the installation of other or additional water, curb or service connections to the abutting property unless and until said abandoned, dead or obsolete connection or connections have been entirely disconnected at the water main in the public street and until all the terms of Sections 12.24.010, 12.24.020 and 12.24.030 and all other ordinances relative to such connections and their installation have been complied with.
[Prior code § 35-11]
Whenever any such water, curb or service connection is abandoned
or is about to be abandoned by the abutting property owner or becomes
dead or obsolete or is about to become dead or obsolete for any reason
whatsoever, the City Council shall cause to be served upon the owner
of said property, either personally or by mail or by posting on the
property, written notice to disconnect such abandoned, dead or obsolete
water, curb or service connection at the water main in the street
on which the property abuts on or before the date fixed in the notice,
which date shall not be less than 10 days after such notice is given,
and if the property owner fails to disconnect the abandoned, dead
or obsolete water, curb or service connection at the water main in
said street within the time fixed in the notice, the director of construction
and engineering shall cause the work to be done and the cost thereof
shall be collected from the owner of the property, and if said owner
fails to pay the same, such cost shall be assessed against the property
as a special tax in the manner provided for collecting and assessing
the cost of constructing sidewalks.
[Prior code § 35-12]
Whenever the City Council orders any street, highway, avenue,
alley, public ground or place permanently improved by paving, graveling
and macadamizing, it shall be the duty of the owners of property abutting
thereon to make the connections from gas, water and steam heating
pipes, underground electric connections and sewers to the property
line of the adjacent property before the improvement is made. In any
case where such connection is not made before such improvement is
made no permit shall be issued for the excavation or displacement
of any such paving, graveling or macadamizing, unless special conditions
exist at the time the application is made.
[Prior code § 35-13]
Whenever the City Council has ordered any street, highway, avenue,
alley, public ground or place permanently improved and the connections
from any gas, water or steam heating pipes or underground electric
connections or sewers have not been made to the property line of any
adjacent property, the City Council shall cause to be served written
notice on the owner of the property, either personally or by mail,
or by posting on the property, to make such connections by a date
fixed which shall not be less than 48 hours after such notice is given,
or to show cause in writing filed with the department of construction
and engineering of the City within said time why such connections
should not be made.
[Prior code § 35-14]
The notice shall designate the number of connections to each
gas, water or steam heating pipes or underground electric connections
or sewers and the distance that the connections shall be apart. At
the expiration of the time fixed, the department of construction and
engineering shall report the matter to the Council with all objections
filed and such recommendations as they may deem proper and thereupon
the Council shall, by resolution, order the making of such connections
as they shall deem necessary.
[Prior code § 35-15]
When the Council orders any such connections made, the department
of construction and engineering shall cause the work to be done and
the cost thereof shall be collected from the owner of the property
for which such connections are made and assessed to such property
as a special tax in the manner provided for collecting and assessing
the cost of constructing sidewalks.
[Prior code § 35-16]
When it is determined by the director of construction and engineering
of the City, or by his authorized agent, that a lateral line of one
of the systems mentioned in this chapter is leaking or is in a state
of disrepair, it shall be his duty to immediately report the same
to the City Council, together with the name of the abutting property
owner and a description of the land.
[Ord. 87-275 § 4]
No person, firm or corporation shall make connections or abandonments
which require excavation in public right-of-way or public easements
without first obtaining a permit from the department of construction
and engineering.
