§ 6-603. WATER CONSERVATION DEVICE REQUIRED.

(a) No person shall install or replace any system including portable systems on any premises, unless such system is equipped with a water conservation device, and such device is properly maintained at all times, except as follows:

(1) In a multi-story building, unconserved water-cooled refrigeration units used only for the commercial preservation of food may be installed, replaced or maintained provided that such unit has a capacity of less than one ton and that all such units on any one premises do not exceed a cumulative total capacity of two tons and do not consume more than 1.5 gallons of water per minute per ton of capacity per unit.

(2) Evaporative coolers may be installed, replaced, or maintained provided that no evaporative cooler or coolers on any premises shall have a cumulative total capacity of more than eighteen hundred cubic feet of air per minute.

(3) A system may be installed, replaced or maintained provided it is not connected to city water, and a source of water supply is developed on the same premises for the exclusive use of such system, and a drainage well, drilled pursuant to and in conformance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 6-401), Chapter 6, of this Code, is used as the sole means of disposing of water discharged from such system.

(b) When a system is installed or maintained on any premises contrary to the provisions of this article, no city water service shall be granted to serve said premises, whether located in or out of the city limits.

(c) No person shall sell or deliver any evaporative cooler designed to deliver more than eighteen hundred cubic feet of air per minute which he knows or has reason to know is intended to use city water unless such cooler is, when sold and delivered, equipped with a water conservation device. (Added Ord. 4890, 1956; Am. Ord. 5309, 1958; Rep. and Added Ord. 6436, 1964).