§ 110-38. Tapping, mains, service pipes and connections.

(a)

The public works department shall lay the service pipe to the property line of the owner who has signed a contract for water service, provided the property line corresponds to such lot lines as are dedicated and recorded in some subdivision plat. The public works department shall not run service connections into lots or parts of lots that have been divided and no provisions for easements or alleys have been made for water supply lines and recorded.

(b)

If the service supplying a house or building is found not to be large enough due to additions to the building or an increase or change in the number of fixtures, the public works department shall make the larger tap and install the larger service upon the payment of the tapping charge for the size of the new service. No credit shall be given for the service already in place that is found to be insufficient in size.

(c)

The owner shall place a gate valve on the service between the building and the meter box so the supply may be turned off by the owner in case of a break or repairs being made in the building.

(d)

The public works department in every instance reserves the right, at its option, to designate and prescribe the size of a service connection, either upon original installation of a new connection or upon any renewal or replacement of any old connection, and in any case, where a size of service other than that applied for by the owner, or previously existing is so designated and prescribed by the public works department, the owner shall be bound thereby.

(e)

The public works department reserves the right, at its option, where and when, in its discretion, the conditions may or might require it, at any time to require any owner to install on his service connection a tank, check valve, cock or gate valve, pressure regulator or other appliances, apparatus or equipment of such type and design as is approved by the public works department and thereafter to require any change, alteration, substitution or addition of and to any such appliance as aforesaid; and failure upon the part of the owner to comply with such requirements of the public works department within 30 days after written notice to the owner, or within some agreed extension beyond such 30 days also in writing, shall authorize the public works department, at its option and without further notice, to cancel the contract for such service and discontinue the same.

(Code 1964, § 45-9)