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Section 7406. Unauthorized Turn On. No person other than a duly authorized amployee of the City shall turn on water at any metered service. Violation of this provision shall be a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance to report any violations of this Section to the City Attorney, who shall institute appropriate legal proceedings forthwith. Section 7407. Meter Box and Hydrant Obstruction. No person shall place trash, dirt, building materials, or other objects or obstructions on meter boxes or around or adjacent to City hydrants, and no person shall allow the same to become obstructed or obscured by vines, trees, shrubs, or other plants in any manner so as to make their location difficult to determine, or to in any way interfere with or render difficult free access to, or use of, said meter boxes and City hydrants. In the event of such obstruction or obscuring, notice shall be given by the Finance Department to the property served by such meter, or ad- Jacent to such hydrant; such notice shall contain the requirement that the obstruction, whether a growing thing or otherwise, be removed within twenty-four hours. In the case of a meter box being obstructed or obscured, a penalty charge of One Dollar shall be placed upon the water bill and charged to the consumer to defray the cost of the meter reader's return to read the meter. Such penalty shall be added to the water bill and col- lected in the same manner and under the same condition as water rates are collected. Section 7408. Circuses, Shows, etc. All circuses, shows or exhibitions using water from the mains of the City shall make application for such water at the office of the Department of Public Works, and shall pay in ad- vance therefor the stun of Forty Dollars per day. Section 7409. Change of Location. Any person desiring to change the location of any water service that has been installed, shall make application to the Department of Public Works for such change, and said Department, if in its Judgment it deems such change to be necessary or ad- visable, will cause such change to be made. The applicant res questing such change shall become liable to the City for the cost of all labor, equipment, materials, and overhead used, in- cluding the cost of any heavy cast iron meter box where it be deteEnined that the installation of the same is necessary. Said charges are due upon the completion of the work herein referred to. Unless such charges are paid within ten days of mailing a statement thereof to the applicant requesting the same, the supply of water will be shut off from the premises and the same shall remain shut off until all charges, rates or penalties have been paid, including One Dollar for again turnin~ the water on. The Department may demand a cash deposit in an amount estimated to be the cost of the work before any work is started. Section 7410. Fire Hydrants. City fire hydrants are provided for the sole purpose of ex- tinguishing fire and shall be opened and used only by the Water -3-