§ 52.016. WATER CONTRACT.

(A) The city, through its Water Department, shall furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises abut a street or alley in which a commercial main now is or may hereafter be laid. The city may furnish water to persons within its corporate limits whose premises do not abut a street or alley in which a city commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid and may also furnish water to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate limits of the city, as and when, according to law, the City Council may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations, and water rates hereinafter named in this chapter shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for water service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every consumer now or hereafter served. Without further formality, the making of application on the part of any applicant or the use or consumption of water service by present consumers thereof and the furnishing of water service to the consumer shall constitute a contract between the consumer and the city, to which contract both parties are bound. If the consumer shall violate any of the provisions of the contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the City Council may hereafter adopt, the City Administrator, or his or her agent, may cut off or disconnect the water service from the building or premise or place of the violation. No further connection for water service to the building, premise, or place shall again be made except by order of the Administrator or his or her agent.

(Prior Code, § 3-104)

(B) Contracts for water service are not transferable. Any person wishing to change from one location to another shall make a new application and sign a new contract. If any consumer shall move from the premise where service is furnished, or if the premise is destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall at once inform the City Services Director who shall cause the water service to be shut off at the premise. If the consumer should fail to give notice, he or she shall be charged for all water used on the premise until the City Services Director is otherwise advised of the circumstances.

(Neb. RS 17-537)

(Prior Code, § 3-114) (Ord. 776, passed 8-20-2002; Ord. 800, passed 10-18-2005)