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service box. Water customers shall, for their own protection, provide at their own <br />expense another valve at the first suitable point beyond the meter. <br />(u) Unused service connection. Any service connection which has been <br />installed for a period of ten (10) years or more and has not been activated for ten (10) <br />years shall be considered inactive and obsolete. Any person desiring water service for <br />such premises or any portion thereof formerly supplied by the inactive service shall <br />make application for a new service connection and pay the current charge therefore. <br />(v) Meter box or hydrant obstruction. No person shall place trash, dirt, <br />building materials, or other objects or obstructions on or around meter boxes or on, <br />around, or adjacent to city hydrants. No person shall allow the meter boxes or hydrants <br />to become obstructed or obscured by vines, trees shrubs, plants, or in any manner so <br />as to make their location difficult to determine, or so as to interfere with or render <br />difficult free access to, or use of, meter boxes or fire hydrants. In the event of <br />obstruction or obscuring, notice shall be given by the agency to the property served by <br />such meter, or adjacent to such hydrant; such notice shall contain the requirement that <br />the obstruction be removed within twenty-four (24) hours. Where a meter box is <br />obstructed or obscured so that it cannot be read, a "special investigation/meter reread <br />fee" shall be made for returning to read the meter. <br />(w) Responsibility of city. The city's responsibility ends at the customer's side <br />of the meter or where the city's facilities terminate. <br />(x) Above ground water system appurtenances. Fire hydrants and <br />aboveground backflow prevention devices, fire connection stand pipes and above <br />ground meters shall be entirely color coded as follows: <br />Public fire hydrant White <br />Private fire hydrants OSHA Red <br />Irrigation meter and Backflow Prevention Device Green <br />Domestic meter and Backflow Prevention Device Blue <br />Fire Backflow Prevention Device and fire connection standpipes OSHA Red <br />All colors shall follow the city's standard specification as established by the agency <br />(y) Fire hydrant location. Fire hydrants shall be installed in locations specified <br />by the agency. If an applicant requests, and the agency approves, a change in the size, <br />type, or location of specified hydrants may be made. The applicant shall pay any <br />additional costs required to comply with the request. <br />Sec. 39-24. - Temporary service; fire hydrant meters. <br />(a) Use of fire hydrants as temporary water service. City fire hydrants are <br />provided for the primary purpose of extinguishing fire and shall be opened and used <br />only by the agency, fire department, or such persons as may be authorized by permit. <br />Ordinance No. NS -XXX <br />Page 20 of 56 <br />75A-22 <br />