Authorization is given the city secretary to call for removal
of meters of the water and/or gas departments of the city in such
circumstances as seem necessary to secure payment of utility billing.
Such service will be resumed by the reinstallation of the meters involved
upon payment of the then-delinquent account and payment of a fee of
as provided for in the fee schedule by the customer for this action.
(1997 Code, sec. 50.02)
Rates for water service within the city shall be as specified
in the fee schedule.
(Ordinance adopting Code)
Every business house or building occupied or intended for human
habitation or occupancy which abuts on a public street or alley in
which there is a public sewer shall connect or have connected the
sanitary facilities with the public sewer system, either by the owner
or his agent. Such connection shall be made in the most direct manner
possible and with a separate connection for each business and building.
For the purposes of this section, the words “sanitary facilities”
shall mean facilities for the disposal of human excreta or other human
wastes.
(1997 Code, sec. 50.04)
It shall be unlawful for any person, except the duly authorized
officers and agents of the city, to tamper with or interfere with,
damage, injure, or destroy any meter, regulator, pipeline, regulator
station, distributing station, or any other property belonging to
or under the control of the city.
(1997 Code, sec. 50.05)