The record-union., 1894-12-11
ORDINANCE NO. 34S.
Providing for the Collection of Water
Rates, and Providing a Penalty for
the Violation Thereof

TTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
i City OF sacramento ordain as follows:
Section 1. All water rates shall be collected
| from the owners of the premises to which
water is supplied by the city; provided
however, that the Committee on Water
Works may authorize the collection of water
rates from the occupant of business premises
providing the owner of the premises fur
nishes good and sufficient bond, in a sum
equal TO one years water rate; said bond to
| be filed in the Office of the City Collector
Section ,. All water rates shall be PAYABLE
monthly IL advance.
Section 3. II the amounts due for wafer
| rates are not paid to the City Collector AT his
| Office, or WITHIN thirty days after the same
| shall become due the City Collector shall. in
! writing, within ten days thereafter, notify
| the City Taper of such default: and il shaiI
| be the duty of the City Taper, within ten
| days after receiving said notice, to cause the
water TO be shut OIL from said premises in the
| following manner to wit:
If the service pipe leading to the premises
| is directly connected with the water main by
| means OF the stop-cock at the main: W hen
| the service pipe leading to the premises is not
! directly connected with the water main, but
| has been connected with another service pine.
| and the water IS supplied through such other
| service pipe, by disconnecting the service
| pipe OF delinquent from such other service
! pipe.
Section i. In no case shall the water be re-
| stored to any premises, when shut OFT as pro-
| Vldeu IN this ordinance, unless the pipe lead
| ing thereto is directly connected with the
| city mains, and unconnected with any other
| service pipe leading to any other premises
| and except on payment of all arrearages and
! the additional sum of five dollars for shut
| ting of and letting on the water; provided,
| that in case OF poverty the Board of Trustees
may remit the SAID additional sum of five
| dollars.
| Section 5. If any person refuses to allow
| the City Taper to enter the premises OF said
! person, for the purpose of disconnecting the
| service pipe OF a delinquent water-taker from
| the service pipe of said person, the City Tap
| per shall Immediately cause the water to be
| shut of from the premises of the person so
! refusing IN the manner provided for shutting
| on water from delinquent water-taker, and
said person shall thereafter, in all respects, be
| deemed 10 be and treated as a delinquent
water-taker.
Section q. No person having a permit to
| use city water shall supply water to any other
| person or family not having q permit, or al
| low them to use said water from the hydrant.
Section z. Any person violating any of the
| provisions of this ordinance, snail, for the
| nrst ot1ense, be fined in the sum of twenty
/ five dollars and for each succeeding otense
| be fined the sum of fifty dollars, and in de-
| fault of payment of said fine shall be imprls-
| oned in the City Jail, not less than ten, or
| more than twenty-five days.
| Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect
| from and after the first day OF July, 1894.
| Passed July rs, 1894.
| W.D. LAWTON,
| President Board of Trustees.
| o, >. FLINT, CITY Clerk, d11-3t