(a) 
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any gas and/or water meters and/or connections, valves, or fittings attached thereto and owned by the city without first obtaining proper consent from the mayor or city council.
(b) 
Should said water and/or gas meter(s), or connections, etc., owned by the city be tampered with as described in subsection (a) hereof, or should any water and/or gas be drawn therefrom after service has been disconnected, then the individual(s) responsible, and/or the individual, firm or corporation in whose name the said gas and/or water meter(s) is registered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor to be known as "tampering with city gas and/or water systems," and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(Ordinance 39 adopted 11/30/1977)
(a) 
Every residence, place of business, or other building or place where persons reside, congregate or are employed which abuts a street or alley in which there is a public sanitary sewer, or which is within 200 feet of, and of such elevation as to be available to, a public sanitary sewer, shall be connected to the sewer, by the owner or agent of the premises, in the most direct manner possible, and with a separate connection for each home, building or place. Each connection and each fixture emptying through the connection shall be installed in a good and workmanlike manner conformable to good plumbing standards. Within the meaning of this section, it shall be considered sufficient elevation for proper sewer connection if there be a minimum fall of three inches per hundred feet from ground level at the point of outlet to the point of inlet in the public sewer line to which connection is required to be made.
(b) 
It shall be the duty of the city or county health officer to enforce the provisions of this section, and in the performance of this duty the health officer, or his duly authorized agent, is hereby authorized to enter, at any reasonable hour, any premises as may be necessary in the enforcement of this section.
(c) 
Any person, firm, or corporation who violates or refuses or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00.
(d) 
This section shall be cumulative of all laws of the state.
(Ordinance 16 adopted 3/11/1966)
The following materials prescribed for use between the city gas meter and the structure served by such meter are as recommended by the Standard Gas Code, 1979 edition, of the Southern Building Code Congress International. These recommendations are:
Section 306:
1. 
Metallic wrought iron or steel (approved by ANSI Standard #B36.10-1970, Screw Gauges).
2. 
Metallic copper tubing.
3. 
Plastic piping: ASTM D-2513 polyethylene.
(Ordinance 58 adopted 3/9/1982)
(a) 
All persons, associations, organizations, and corporations using or maintaining any telegraph, telephone, water, electric light or other poles, gas or water pipelines, pipes and other fixtures in any of the streets, highways, easements, alleys, parks or other places within the corporate limits of the city shall, on the 1st day of April of each and every year, file with the city secretary a sworn report showing the gross receipts from the business conducted by such persons, associations, organizations and corporations within the corporate limits of the said city for the preceding year ending March 1.
(b) 
The city council may when it may see fit have the books and records of the person, association, organization, or corporation rendering the statement required in subsection (a) of this section examined by a representative of the city to ascertain whether such statement is accurate, but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the city from ascertaining the facts by any other method.
(c) 
Upon the 1st day of April of each and every year every person, association, organization, or corporation occupying or using the streets, highways, easements, alleys, parks, or other public places in the city with poles, pipes and for other fixtures shall as a condition to such further occupancy pay to the city annually for such privileges a rental equal to two percent (2%) of the gross receipts received by such person, association, organization or corporation from its business conducted in the corporate limits of the city for the preceding year, which sums shall be paid to the city.
(d) 
Upon receipt of the above rental by the city secretary, the city secretary shall deliver to the person, association, organization or corporation paying the same, a receipt for such rental, which said receipt shall authorize such person, association, organization or corporation to use and occupy the streets, highways, easements, alleys, parks and other public ways of the city in carrying on its business for twelve (12) months from April 1 of such year.
(e) 
The rental for the privilege of using the streets, alleys, highways, easements and public places of the city provided for in this section is not charged as a tax, but is made for the privilege now enjoyed and to be enjoyed by such persons, associations, organizations and corporations of using the streets, easements, alleys, and other public ways of the city in the conduct of their respective businesses; and such charges are additional to all ad valorem and franchise taxes and to all taxes of every nature whatsoever against the persons, associations, organizations or corporations mentioned herein.
(f) 
Nothing herein is intended to relieve any person, association, organization or corporation of any condition, restriction or requirement imposed by any law or ordinance of the city.
(g) 
This section does not grant a franchise to any utility or person, association, organization or corporation to use the streets, easements, alleys and other public ways and shall never be so construed by the courts or otherwise, and the city reserves the right to cancel the privileges granted hereunder and refund the unearned rentals paid to the city.
(h) 
The city hereby reserves the right to put into effect at any time other restrictions and regulations as to the erection and maintenance of poles, wires, pipes and other appurtenances in the streets, easements, alleys, and other public ways of the city and from time to time to require such poles, pipes, wires and other property, equipment and fixtures as it may deem proper to be removed and to require wires to be run in conduits on such terms as the city may deem proper.
(i) 
Every person, association, organization, and corporation who shall operate any business without the payment of the rentals provided for herein shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each and every day that such person, association, organization, or corporation shall conduct such business using and occupying the streets, easements, alleys or other public ways of the city without the payment of the said rentals, which said sum may be recovered by the city in a court of competent jurisdiction by a suit filed therein.
(j) 
Every person, association, organization or corporation and the local manager or agent of every such person, association, organization or corporation failing or refusing to make the report required by subsection (a) of this section, or failing or refusing to allow the examination provided for in subsection (b) of this section, shall upon conviction in the municipal court of the city be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), and every day of failure or refusal, as mentioned in this section, shall be deemed a separate offense.
(k) 
The chief of police, building inspector, electrical inspector, city police officers, and such other persons designated by the city shall have the power, should the city choose to exercise it, to examine and inspect from time to time all telegraph, telephone, electric light or other poles, gas lines, pipe and other fixtures in the public places within the city for the purpose of seeing that all of same are in a safe and suitable condition, and whenever any such item is found to be unsafe or unsuitable for the purpose of which it is used, the person using, possessing or maintaining same shall be notified and required to place same in a safe and suitable condition.
(Ordinance 9 adopted 10/9/1962)