§ 98-63. Metering water bypassing sewer system.

(a)

Any commercial, industrial, multiunit, public utility or public school owning or having control of property on which there is located one or more facilities requiring water and such water provided to any one or more of such facilities is not discharged into the city sanitary sewer system may, at the owner's own expense, have installed by the city a water meter of a type and design and at a location approved by the director of utilities.

(b)

Any facility that does not discharge into the city's sewer system when the water is furnished by the city's water system shall be metered by a city water meter connected to a separate service line from the city water main and located in the utility easement, upon the making of application therefor by the owner of such property and making the required deposits and paying the cost of meter installation and tap fees provided for by this article. Such meter shall be read by the city's meter readers and will be subject to the established water rates and charges of the city the same as any other metered water connection to a city main.

(c)

No person shall be allowed to disconnect a water meter that meters a facility not discharging into the city's sanitary sewer system as stated in this section and then reconnect such meter to the city's water system within a 12-month period.

(d)

Any person representing to the city that the facility for which a meter is installed, under this section, does not discharge waste into the city's sanitary sewer system when in fact it does or any person having facilities for which such a meter is installed who subsequently connects such facility to the city's sanitary sewer system without notifying the director of utilities shall be punishable as provided in section 1-14.

(Code 1967, § 31-61; Ord. No. 3317, § 1, 2-11-82)