(a) Every person desiring water service within the city shall make written application to the plumbing department on forms prepared by the city and shall provide such information as may be necessary to properly process the application. The property owner or his lawful agent must sign the application.
(b) Laying the pipe from the service main to a point six (6) inches inside the curb line abutting the property to be served shall be done by the city at the expense of the property owner. The board of aldermen may establish, by resolution, a written schedule of fees for same. The city shall install a stopcock six (6) inches inside the curb and connect the service pipe to be laid by the property owner with the service main at the stopcock at the curb. No person other than the superintendent of waterworks shall make any such connection. No service main, whether laid by the city or by the property owner, shall have a diameter of less than three-fourths (3/4) of an inch.
(c) The charge for connecting one dwelling unit to the service main with a three-quarter-inch line shall be the sum of five hundred fifty dollars ($550.00). Where the property owner assumes the responsibility to provide public improvements without cost to the city, including water service, he shall pay a water connection fee in the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each dwelling unit.
(d) Any extension of the service main shall be at the sole expense of the property owner requesting water service.
(e) The above charges shall be paid upon application for such installation. No building or other permits shall be issued until the above charges shall have been paid.
(f) The term “dwelling unit” and the calculation of equivalent dwelling units for commercial, industrial, institutional or other uses shall be as defined and provided in Appendix G of this Code. (Code 1953, § 21.17; 1961 Supp., § 21.17; Ord. No. G-70-35, § 1, Ord. No. G-80-5, § 1, 4-3-80; Ord, No. G-87-10, § 1, 7-9-87)