City water shall be delivered pursuant to and only upon a written contract signed by the consumer or purchaser providing for a term of not less than one (1) month. Consumers or purchasers, whether residential, commercial or industrial, able and willing to receive water at standard pressures, flow rate and volume using the standard distribution system of the city, shall be charged for such water in accordance with the water rates established in section 12.02.002 of this chapter. Consumers or purchasers desiring water at a minimum delivery pressure, particular flow rate, volume in excess of one and one-half million (1,500,000) cubic feet per month, or which require construction of oversized additions to the city’s distribution system shall be delivered water pursuant to a written contract upon such terms, conditions, and at such rate as may be fixed by the city council, which rate shall be other than the rate established in section 12.02.002 of this chapter.
(1970 Code, sec. 31-2; Ordinance 85-019, sec. 1, adopted 4/15/85; 1988 Code, sec. 34-2)
Each person desiring a water or sewer tap within the city shall make application to the department of community development and shall pay a fee for each such tap as provided in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code.
(1970 Code, sec. 31-3; Ordinance1992, sec. 1, adopted 12/14/70; Ordinance 2071, sec. 1, adopted 1/10/72; Ordinance 2246, sec. 1, adopted 10/13/75; Ordinance 84-071, sec. 1, adopted 10/8/84; Ordinance 88-032, sec. 1, adopted 8/8/88; Ordinance 2000-056, sec. 2, adopted 11/13/00; Ordinance 2005-018, sec. 2, adopted 5/18/05; Ordinance 2009-021, sec. 2, adopted 6/8/09; 1988 Code, sec. 34-4; Ordinance 2019-039, sec. 3, adopted 9/23/19; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning property within two hundred (200) feet of any sanitary sewer line within and belonging to the city to construct, use or maintain, or permit to be constructed, used or maintained, on or about such property, any apparatus, appliance, equipment or thing of any kind used, or to be used, for the purpose of receiving or removing sewage matter or slop of any kind, unless the same is connected with the sanitary sewer system of the city.
(b) 
If any person owning improved property within two hundred (200) feet of any sewer line of the city shall fail or refuse to make the connections required by subsection (a) of this section, the city shall have the right to make such connections and charge the cost of same, including labor and material necessarily used, as well as any other expenses connected therewith, against such owner, who shall be personally liable for the payment thereof. To secure the payment of such costs, the city shall have a lien against the property on which the connection was made.
(1970 Code, sec. 31-4; 1988 Code, sec. 34-5)