The border vidette., 1912-10-26

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 Where water service is furnished for flat or tenement house, the rates shall be separate for each tenant or family, unless otherwise contracted for.
 The charge for supplying water to the municipality for the pur pose of extinguiehing fires, shall be One Dollar monthly for each town fire hydrant connected with the mains.
 Fire hydrants furnished by the town shall be installed by the Water Department, as required. at cost to the town of five dollars for each hydrant so installed and made ready for use.
 The Fire Department shall have the right at any time to test the pressure of water in the fire hyd rants.
 The regular rates shall be re- duced from year to year as the fin nces of the municipality may permit.
 Complaints from consumers re- garding water service, or other matters pertaining to the Water Department shall be made in writ ! ing and shall receive due attention | from the Water Com mittee, and be adjusted amicably and as satis- | ffactorily to the complainant as ! possible, consistent with the rules, regulations and welfare of the 1 Water Department.
 Section 10, For the fair and ! II eR of actual consumers of water may i have meters installed upon written request to the common council, such consumer to pay for said meter together with cost of install lation thereof, and the Water De- partment is hereby authorized and empowered to install meters for l such purposes. ... --. i The cost of the said meters. their tinsta lla tion, their repairs. and the labor employed and materia al tur- nished in making connections be- tween the water mains and the consumers property line on the premises to be supplied with water, :, shall be at the expense of the said 1 consumer, provided, however. no rental shall be charged for the use of such meter.
 If in the opinion of the Water l Committee, the amount of water used on any premises is in excess of the rent collected, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to in
 stall a meter upon such premises and collect for all water used ! through such meter. according to the reading of same at the rate set forth in this ordinance; provided, | however, said meter IS to be placed at the expense of the Water De- i partment.
 Befure installing a meter through which to supply water, the Water ! Department, in it's discretion, may exact deposit sufficient to guar antee the prompt payment of the probable amount due.
 The Water Department, through it's authorized employees, shall have access t0 any meter through which water is supplied whenever it's ex- animation, repalr or reading, is considered necessary.
 f Any property upon which water IS or has been furnished by the | Go" II ON ANoSdlOo, AIlZoids "hISh may not for any cause, have been registered or assessed for water ! rents on the books of the Water Department. shall be assessed for t!,e water rent for which it is in ; arrears, and upon the failure of the payment of same, the supply shall be turned off pending a settlement.
 Section H. All water rents shall be due and payable at the office of the Water Department, during re- gular office hours, on the first day of each month for service during the previous time, and if not paid within fifteen G5) days thereafter the supply will, without notice, be turned off and the charge of one dollar .OO] will be added for the cost of turning off and on the ser vice. also where water is furnished | consumers through a meter, in this event the water so used shall be paid for on the first day of the month for the water used during the preceding time, or within fif- teen [15] days thereafter, or same will be turned off and the same charge made for turning off and on as hereinabove provided for water used without a meter.
 1 Premises to which water has been discontinued shall be held