§ 98-58. Water shortage.  


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  • In case of emergency caused by a shortage of water in the city water system, it shall be the duty of the city manager immediately to give notice by publication to the water consumers of the system not to use water obtained from the system for any purpose other than for strictly domestic use and such other use as he may designate, so long as the water shortage lasts. Thereafter and until he proclaims the emergency at an end, it shall be unlawful for any person, during the existence of the emergency, to use water obtained from the city water system for the purpose of watering or sprinkling a lawn, flower bed, park, hedge or garden, or to use said water for any purpose other than strictly domestic use and such other uses as he may have designated.

(Ord. No. 251, § 24, 8-27-59; Code 1973, § 21-37)