A bylaw for regulating the distribution and use of water and prescribing penalties for non-compliance with the regulations.
The Trustees of Razor Point Improvement District ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1. In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:
a) “Trustees” means the Trustees of the Improvement District or their duly authorized representatives.
b) “Water” means water conveyed through the works operated or maintained by the Improvement District.
c) “Works” means anything capable of or useful for storing, measuring or conveying, conserving, retarding, confining or using water.
d) “Swimming pool” means an artificially created body of water having a depth of 18” or more used for recreational or physiotherapy purposes.
Service Connections
2. The type and size of service connection and the arrangement of valves and other appurtenances required to regulate the water will be specified in writing by the Trustees.
3. Where an applicant for a water service requires a quantity, pressure or type of service in excess of that which can be supplied from the works of the Improvement District, the Trustees may require the said applicant to pay for all or part of any works considered necessary to augment system capacity in order to meet the water requirements. Alternatively, the said applicant may be required to make a capital contribution towards the future provision of such works. Applicants considered under this section may be required to enter into a formal agreement with the Improvement District regarding the special terms and conditions under which water is supplied.
Change of Occupancy
4. No agreement between the occupant of premises and the Improvement District with respect to water service to those premises may be transferred to another occupant. New occupants of premises must apply in writing to the Improvement District for water service and receive permission before they commence to use water.
Turn Off and Turn On
5. Consumers who wish to have their water service discontinued must pay the prescribed turn-off charge, and give the Improvement District fourteen (14) days notices. The service will be cut off at the end of the month succeeding the termination of the notice. Before the service is again renewed, the tenant or occupant must pay to the Improvement District the prescribed turn-on charge for the renewal of the service.
6. The Improvement District may order the water to be turned off to any premises where tolls have been owing for ninety (90) days or longer.
Trustees Right of Access
6. a) The Trustees or their designate shall have right of access to all parts of a person’s property or premises at all reasonable hours for the purpose of inspecting or testing any works, fittings or appliances related to the use of water, or for the purpose of installing, removing, repairing, reading or inspecting meters.
b) No person will obstruct or prevent the Trustees or their designate from carrying out any of the provisions of this bylaw.
Improvement District’s Works
7. No person except the Trustees or their designate will open, shut, adjust, draw water from or tamper with any of the Improvement District’s works.
8. No person will obstruct at any time or in any manner the access to any hydrant, valve, stop-cock or other fixture connected with the Improvement District’s works, and should any person so obstruct access to any said fixture by placing thereon or near thereto any structure or material, the Trustees may remove such obstruction at the expense of the offending person.
9. When a landowner requests that any of the Improvement District’s works situated within an easement in favour of the Improvement District be moved or relocated, the entire cost of moving or relocating the said works will be borne by the landowner unless other arrangements are agreed upon in writing by both parties.
Works on Private Property
10. No person to whose premises water is supplied will make, or permit to be made, any additional connection to his service of either temporary or permanent nature, for the purpose of supplying water to another building, or house trailer on his, or any other property without permission of the Improvement District.
11. No person will interconnect any portion of the works on private property which are supplied by the Improvement District with an external source of water, such as a well, except with written permission of the Improvement District. Wherever works on private property which are supplied by the Improvement District are connected to a body of contaminated water, such as a swimming pool, in such a way that, if a reverse flow were to be induced, a health hazard could result, the owner of the private property will install and maintain a back-flow preventer on every such potentially dangerous cross-connection to the approval of the Improvement District.
12. No person will use or permit the use of any pump or other device for the purpose of, or having the effect of, increasing the pressure in any pipe without the written permission of the Trustees, whether such pipe forms part of the Improvement District’s works or of the works on the said person’s premises. The Improvement District may, without notice, discontinue service to any person employing such pump or other device.
13. No device designed to introduce another substance into the water in the connection between the building and the water supply main will be installed without written permission of the Trustees who, in consultation with the health inspector, will ensure that the device is so designed and installed that such substance cannot be introduced in the Improvement District’s works.
14. No device designed to introduce another substance into the water in the connection between the building and the water supply main will be installed without written permission of the Trustees who, in consultation with the health inspector, will ensure that the device is so designed and installed that such substance cannot be introduced in the Improvement District’s works.
15. The property owner will be responsible for the safekeeping, maintenance, repair and replacement of all service pipes and plumbing systems from the outlet of the Improvement District’s curb stop or standard waterworks valve at his property line and will protect them form frost or other damage, and will promptly repair frozen, leaky or imperfect pipes or fixtures.
16. Should it be necessary for the Improvement District to make a repair on a property owner’s’ premises during the owner’s absence, the Trustees will notify said owner at the earliest possible convenience and if said repair is deemed to be the result of neglect by the property owner then the repair costs will be paid by the owner.
Water Use Regulations
17. The Trustees may limit the amount of water used by an service in the interests of efficient operation of the Improvement District’s works and equitable distribution of water.
18. The Trustees may, at any time, substitute a metered service for a unmetered service to any premises. Each dwelling shall have meter separate from any other dwelling, in a position approved by the Trustees. All meters will be the property of the Improvement District.
19. No owner or occupant of any premises supplied with water by the Improvement District will sell, dispose of , or give away water, or permit the same to be taken away or applied for the benefit of other persons or premises, except by permission of the Trustees.
20. a) No person will use water for watering stock, filling swimming pools or reservoirs, or for any purpose other than required for normal domestic use.
b) No person shall use any service as motive power for the purpose of operating machinery without permission of the Trustees, who may terminate or withdraw such permission at any time.
21. a) The Trustees may, at any time, introduce regulations restricting the use of water for sprinkling or any other purpose. Upon receiving due notice of such restriction, no person will use water for the purposes forbidden by, or in excess of the limits imposed by, such restrictions. Due notice of restrictions will be given either by publication in a newspaper circulating with the Improvement District or by mail.
b) Notwithstanding the lack of, or limited form of, sprinkling regulations as hereinbefore provided, no person will, without permission of the Trustees:
i. Use water for sprinkling in excess of reasonable requirements:
ii. Use more than two outlets at one time for sprinkling purposes, neither of which said outlets will exceed ½” in internal diameter; or
iii. Use an open pipe or hose for sprinkling purpose;
iv. Irrigate more than ¼ acre of land (including that occupied by dwellings).
Liability of Improvement District
22. The Improvement District does not guarantee a specific pressure or a continuous supply of water quality to meet the special requirements of individual users. The Improvement District reserves the right to interrupt water service at any time for the purpose of making repairs or alterations to the works. If service is to be interrupted for more than four consecutive hours, due notice shall be given to those water users affected.
Penalties
23. The Trustees may, on twenty-four (24) hours written notice, turn off the supply of water to any person in default of the requirements of this bylaw. The person in default will not be entitled to receive any further water from the Improvement District until such person has remedied the default. It will be unlawful for any person whose water has been turned off, pursuant to this section, to turn such water on again, or take any water from the Improvement Districts’ works until such time as the Trustees again turn on the water.
24. A person who disobeys or fails to comply with any provision of this bylaw shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding Two Thousand dollars ($2,000.00) or to imprisonment not exceeding sixty (60) days, or both.
25. This bylaw repeals Bylaw No.2.
26. This bylaw may be cited as the “Water Distribution Regulation Bylaw”.
INTRODUCED AND given first reading by the Trustees on the 12th day of June, 2012.
RECONSIDERED and finally passed by the Trustees on the 12th day of June, 2012.
Chair of the Trustees
Lynda Challis
I hereby certify under the seal of Razor Point Improvement District that this is a true copy of Bylaw No. 10 of Razor Point Improvement District, passed by the Trustees on the 12th day, June, 2012.
Administrator of Trustees
Ann Douglas