[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of
the City of Port Jervis as indicated in article histories. Other amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-27-1965 (Ch. 155, Art. I of the 1981 Code)]
The Common Council hereby finds, as a matter
of legislative determination, that an adequate supply of water for
domestic, commercial, industrial and public use in the City of Port
Jervis is essential to the safety, health, welfare and comfort of
its people and that restrictive regulations for the purpose of conserving
by appropriate limitations the supply of water are required to provide
and maintain such supply.
For the best interest of the public and for
the preservation of the safety, health, welfare and comfort of the
people of the City of Port Jervis, it is hereby ordered and directed
that the Mayor is hereby authorized, whenever, upon the recommendation
made by the Director of Public Works, the circumstances warrant, to
proclaim an emergency and promulgate such rules and regulations as
may in his opinion be necessary to conserve the supply of water. The
provisions of this article shall apply to all persons, firms, partnerships,
associations, corporations, companies or organizations of any kind
using water both in and outside the City and regardless of whether
any such persons, firms, partnerships, associations, companies or
organizations shall have a contract for water service with the City.
[Amended 4-25-2016 by L.L. No. 10-2016]
It is further ordered and directed that such
rules and regulations may include, but shall not necessarily be limited
to, the restriction or prohibition of the use of water for air-conditioning
equipment, car washing, sprinkling or irrigation of lawns, plants,
shrubs, trees or gardens, swimming pools, the escape of water through
defective plumbing, which shall mean the knowing permission for defective
plumbing to remain out of repair, or any other water-consuming operation. The
Building Official or Deputy Building Official may direct that water
service be denied or terminated at any time at a property where the
certificate of occupancy for that property/structure has been revoked
or denied for a violation of any local, county, state or federal statute
or regulation.
The proclamation of the emergency as aforestated
and the restrictions to be imposed shall be conveyed to the public
by radio, television and newspaper. Announcement by the local radio
station or television station and in one daily newspaper published
in the City of Port Jervis shall constitute notice to the general
public.
Said proclamation shall specify the duration
of the limitation, prohibition or restriction, if practical. Otherwise
such limitation, prohibition or restriction shall continue in full
force and effect until the Mayor shall declare that the emergency
no longer exists.
