The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-13

Be It Ordained by the Board Of Super
visors of the County Of Maui, Terri
tory of Hawaii, that;
l. Any person, firm, or corporation
desiring to be supplied with water
from any public waterworks system
hereinafter referred to in the County
of Maui, shall make application there
for on a printed form supplied by the
County of Maui for that purpose
which application shall be signed by
such applicant. Every privilege grant
ed upon such application shall be sub
ject to the rules and regulations here
in provided for. Blank applications
will, upon request, be furnished by
the local Superintendents of water
works.
2. The Applicant shall pay, in ad
vance, at the office of the local Su
perintendent of Waterworks an
amount sufficient to cover the actual
cost of tapping, connecting and laying
of the service pipe leading into the
premises upon which the privilege is
to be situated to a stop-cock inside OF
said premises; provided however
that a minimum charge of $500 shall
be made for such tapping, connecting
and laying of such pipe.
3. All meters shall be owned by the
County and shall be under the control
of the local Superintendent of Water.
works, or his authorized agent.
4. Each Superintendent of Water.
works shall have charge of the water
system placed in his control; and he
shall have authority to grant and sign
all permits for water privileges and
make all agreements in connection
herewith, so long as the same are
not at variance with the Rules and
Regulations governing the water sys-
TEN over which he has control. He
shall be responsible, on his official
bond, for all government property
connected with and comprising said
system, and for all moneys paid by
consumers to him or his authorized
agent for either services rendered or
water used.
5. No person other than the local
Superintendent of Waterworks or his
duly authorized agent, shall tap main
pipes and turn on or turn off water
therefrom.
6. The local Superintendent OF
Waterworks, or his duly authorized
agent, shall at all reasonable hours,
be permitted to enter upon the prem
ises of a privilege holder for the pur-
pose of inspecting, shutting off, or
turning on, the water, or for the pur-
pose of making repairs to the service
pipes, stop-cocks or meters, and to see
that the provisions hereof and the
rules and regulations herein provided
for are being complied with.
7. All water rates shall be paid
quarterly. They shall be due on the
first days of January, April, July and
October of each year; shall be pay
able at the office of the local Superin-
tendent of Waterworks, and shall be-
come delinquent thirty days after due.
8. The local Superintendent of
Waterworks or his authorized agent
shall at the end of each quarter,
promptly make out and present to
each consumer a bill for all sums
then due.
The local Superintendent of Water
works shall acknowledge receipt of
all payments made to him upon an
official numbered receipt signed by
him, the form of which receipt shall
be approved by the County Auditor.
8. In all cases of non-payment of
water rates within thirty days after
the same are due, ten percent in ad-
dition to the regular rates shall be
charged to, and become due, by the
person holding such privileges, and
the local Superintendent of Water
works may forthwith, without notice,
shut off the water from such privilege,
and charge the expense of the same
to the holder of the privilege. The
water so shut off from such privilege
shall not be again turned on until the
rates for such privilege and all ex-
penses incurred, shall have been paid
in full.
10. Water rates shall be charged
to and payable by, the privilege
holder, for all premises, whether oc-
cupied or not, until such time as the
water is, in writing, ordered shut off,
or is actually shut off.
IL. The wner of the premises shall
be held responsible for the settlement
of all water rates.