[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Chester as Art. 1139 of the 1978 Codified Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
No person shall wilfully or negligently furnish to City residents water for potable or any domestic purposes which is in a state of impurity or impregnated with any matter deleterious to health.
B. 
All persons furnishing City water for potable or domestic purposes through pipes located in the public streets, shall adopt, use and maintain in the most efficient manner and without interruption, for the purification of such water, some system of filtration which experience has shown to be most effective in freeing water from impurities, deleterious matters, organic and inorganic, and germs of disease, and furnish the same clean and wholesome, and in sufficient quantities.
Council or the Department of Public Safety may at any time cause an examination of water supplied to City residents to be made by an expert chemist and if, on analysis, the water is found to be in any respect not fully up to acceptable requirements, the Mayor shall take immediate action to remedy the same.
[Amended 6-6-1990 by Ord. No. 4-1990]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, be fined not more than $1,000 for each offense and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned not more than 90 days.