[Adopted 4-6-1996 STM by Art. 11 (Ch. 191, Art. III, of the 1999 Code)]
This article is adopted by the Town of Plymouth under its home rule powers, its police powers to protect public health and welfare and its specific authorization under MGL c. 40, §§ 21 and 21D.
The purpose of this article is to protect, preserve and maintain the public health, safety and welfare whenever there is in force a State of Water Supply Emergency by providing for enforcement of any duly imposed restrictions, requirements, provisions or conditions imposed by the Town of Plymouth or by the Water Division and included in the Town of Plymouth's plan approved by the Department of Environmental Protection to abate the emergency.
For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY
The Town of Plymouth's Select Board, the Department of Public Works Water Division, the Board of Health, the Town police, special police and any other locally designated body having police powers.
STATE OF WATER SUPPLY EMERGENCY
A State of Water Supply Emergency declared by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to MGL c. 21G, § 15 through 17, or MGL c. 111, § 160, or by the Governor.
The following shall apply to all users of water supplies supplied by the Town of Plymouth:
A. 
Following notification by the Town of Plymouth of the existence of a State of Water Supply Emergency, no person shall violate any provision, condition, requirement or restriction included in a plan approved by the Department of Environmental Protection which has as its purpose the abatement of a water supply emergency.
B. 
Notification of any provision, restriction, requirement or condition with which users of water supplied by the Town of Plymouth are required to comply to abate a situation of water supply emergency shall be sufficient, for purposes of this article, if it is published in a newspaper of general circulation within the Town of Plymouth or by such other notice as is reasonably calculated to reach and inform all users of the Town of Plymouth water supply.
Any person or entity who or which violates this article shall be issued a warning for the first violation and shall be liable to the Town of Plymouth in the amount of $50 for the second violation and $100 for each subsequent violation, which shall inure to the Town of Plymouth for such uses as the Select Board may direct. Fines shall be recovered by indictment or on complaint before the District Court or by noncriminal disposition in accordance with MGL c. 40, § 21D. Each separate instance of noncompliance following issuance of any warning or citation pursuant to this section shall constitute a separate violation.
Agents of the enforcement authority may enter any property for the purpose of inspecting or investigating any violation of this article or enforcing against the same.
The invalidity of any portion or provisions of this article shall not invalidate any other portion, provision or section hereof.