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CHANGE 0F LOCATION SECTION 7: Any person desiring to change the location of domestic service that has already been installed, shall make application to the City Water Department,~ and upon payment of ~5.00 to cover cost of same, the Water Department will cause change to be made. Where it is necessary to protect meters from damage by heavy trucking in driveways where meters are located, a charge of ~15.00 will be made to cover cost of heavy cast iron meter box. FIRE SERVICES SECTION 8~ No fire line shall be used for any purpose other than for the extinguishment of fire. Under no circumstances shall any meter be installed on fire lines. All necessary maintenance and repairs on fire lines from water main to City curb cocks shall be paid for by owner. Upon failure to pay said charges, water will be shut off until such charge is paid. Fire hydrantm are provided for the sole purpose of extinguishing fire, and shall be opened and used only by the Water and Fire Departments, or such persons as may be authorized to do so by the Water Department. AI~ persons using water through fire hydrants, or other hydrant owned or ~ controlled by the City of Santa Ana, shall be required to obtain a permit so to do from the Water Department, which shall issue no such permit to any person who has violated any of the provisions of these rules, or whose indebtedness to the City of Santa Ana for water used, or damage to hydrants, is delinquent. All persons permitted to open fire hydrants, will be required to replace caps on the outlets when the same are not in use. Failure to do so will be sufficient cause to prohibit further use of the hydrants, and the refusal to grant subsequent permits for the use of such fire hydrants. ~.~.TERS TO REMAIN PROPH~TY OF. THE CITY SECTION 9: All water meters and meter boxes installed by the Water Depart- ment shall remain at all times the property of the Water Department, and where replacements, repairs or adjustments of any meter are rendered necessary by the act, negligence or carelessness of the consumer, any expense caused the department thereby~~ shall be charged against, and collected from the consumer. If consumer or owner fails! to pay such charges, water may be shut off until such charges are paid. Each separatei pipe connection in any meter box shall be separately metered. FAILURE OF, M~TE~ SECTION 10: If a meter fails to register du~ing any period or is known to register inaccurately, the consumer shall be charged with an average daily consumption at same season, as shown by the meter when in use and registering accurately. INSTALLING METERS SECTION ll: The City of Santa Aha shall have the right at any time, and at any point, to put in a water meter, and may force the collection for the amount of water that shall be used, in accordance with all the ordinances, rules and regulations ~ of s aid City, governing the consumption of water,and for that purpose, and at any time, i go upon the premises of the consumer of water. STOP COCKS SECTION 12: There shall be a stop cock in every attachment on the sidewalks, Just inside the curb, at a point to be designated by said City, which said stop cock