Discontinuing service to consumers using common line where one branch out of repair.
Huntsville Code of Ordinances § 26-542
in effectSec. 26-542. - Discontinuing service to consumers using common line where one branch out of repair.
If one of several branches from a common line through which water is distributed individually and separately to the several consumers from the common line should get out of condition and leak or waste water, although such branch belongs individually to the consumer or owner of the house, building or property, the city shall have the right to cut the water off to the entire common line as mentioned in section 26-536 and thereby deprive other consumers on such common line of water, though their individual branches are in repair, if such cutting off the water is necessary and without fault of the city, to avoid the creation or maintenance of a nuisance to property owners not connected with or interested in the common line, or to any other person or property.
(Code 1982, § 23-23)
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