All of the provisions of the city's water and sewer policies shall be deemed to be incorporated in every contract between the city utility department and its consumers, and each consumer shall be charged with knowledge of the provisions of these policies, and by applying for and accepting water from the city utility department, to have assented to the provisions hereof.
(Code 1975, § 23-4)
(a) 
Title to sanitary sewers.
Title to all sanitary sewers constructed under article V of this chapter, including service connections, shall be vested in the city. The city retains the right to invoke the contractor's maintenance bond in the event of applicable defect.
(b) 
Maintenance and operation of sewers whose title is vested with city.
The city shall maintain and operate only those sanitary sewers whose title is vested in the city.
(c) 
Title to service connections.
Title to all water mains constructed under article V of this chapter, including title to service connections, shall be vested in the city.
(d) 
Maintenance and operation of water mains whose title is vested with the city.
The city shall maintain and operate only those water mains whose title is vested in the city.
(e) 
Furnishing easements or rights-of-way for sanitary sewers.
All necessary easements or rights-of-way for water mains and sanitary sewers shall be furnished without charge to the city.
(Code 1975, § 23-5)
Every person taking water from the city utility department shall at all reasonable times permit the director of utilities or his agents or as otherwise designated by the city manager to enter the premises and building for examination of pipes and fixtures and the manner in which the water is used, and refusal by any consumer shall result in refusal of water supply from the city utility department until such permission is granted.
(Code 1975, § 23-6)
The right is reserved in the city utility department or as otherwise designated by the city manager to temporarily discontinue and to reconnect without notice water supply to all consumers for the purpose of making repairs, connections, and extensions, and clearing of mains, machinery, reservoir or any part of the city utility department property.
(Code 1975, § 23-7)
When the necessity arises to turn the water on or off at the curb stop, the city shall do so on request at no charge. The responsibility for damage to the curb stop rests with the city; except when persons other than authorized city employees damage the curb stop by turning it on or off, the responsibility then lies with the consumer in whose name the meter is registered.
(Code 1975, § 23-8)
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Editor's note – Former § 78-37, which pertained to water wells and derived from § 23-9 of the 1975 Code, was repealed by Ordinance 3208, 7/9/2012.
The director of utilities shall maintain currently by months an accounting of estimated total water produced by wells and by purchases as well as the total water sales and shall estimate the distributions of the difference to fire usage, leakage, unaccounted losses and other cause of loss if known.
(Code 1975, § 23-10)
No water connection from the city's public drinking water supply system shall be made to any heat exchanger, condenser, cooler, industrial processor, or any other system of nonpotable usage by which the public water supply system is used as a heat dissipater or heat sink unless the water is metered through a customer connection and no water is returned to the city's public potable water system. All these types of uses will be regulated under the city's current building codes.
(Code 1975, § 23-12)