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RULES AND REGULATIONS

PART 2 - Section 16 - 19

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR WATER SERVICE CONNECTIONS

WITHIN THE COUNTY OF KAUAI, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES

FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF

SECTION XVI - RESPONSIBILITY FOR WATER RECEIVING EQUIPMENT

1. The consumer shall at his own risk and expense furnish, install, and keep in good and safe condition all equipment that may be required for receiving, controlling, applying and utilizing water, and the Department will not be responsible for any loss or damage caused by the improper installation of such equipment, or the negligence, want of proper care, or wrongful act of the consumer or of any of his tenants, agents, employees, contractors, licensees or permittees in installing, maintaining, using, operating or interfering with any of such equipment.

2. Water service may be discontinued to any consumer whose water system includes plumbing fixtures, or water containers in any form, or of any use, which, in the opinion of the Department, may endanger the Department’s water supply from a public health standpoint. Any such discontinuation of service shall continue until objectionable installations have been corrected and the Department has been assured that the objectionable uses and practices will not be resumed.

3. The Department will not be responsible for damage to property caused by spigots, faucets, valves and other equipment that may be open when water is turned on at the meter, either when turned on originally or when turned on after a temporary shutdown.

SECTION XVII - ABATEMENT OF NOISES

Where it has been determined that noises emanating from a consumer’s premises are caused by plumbing fixtures or other equipment attached to water pipes and such noises are being transmitted through the water pipes and causing annoyance to other consumers, the Department may issue a notice in writing to the offending consumer or to the owner of such premises, or to his agent, giving reasonable time within which to correct or to remove the cause of complaint. Failure on the part of such consumer, owner, or person responsible to correct or remove the cause of noise will be sufficient reason for discontinuance of water service to the consumer until such time as the condition complained of has been remedied.

SECTION XVIII - ELECTRICAL GROUNDING

1. The Department will not be responsible for the maintaining of a continuous metallic water piping system and reserves the right, without liability to public utility electric companies, electric consumers, or any other agency or individual to create a physical break in its service connections and mains, or to incorporate non-metallic pipes and appurtenances in its system and to make joints of any materials, without regard to their efficiency as conductors of electricity and without giving notice.

2. In the event that protective grounding of alternating current secondary distribution circuits are made to the water system, the grounding installation shall conform in all details with the National Electrical Code of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and with the Kauai County Building Code then in existence. The Department shall not be responsible for any damage or injury caused by any electrical grounding.

3. No grounding of direct current system to any portion of the water shall be permitted.

SECTION XIX - CONSUMER’S PUMPING INSTALLATIONS

1. Consumers shall not be permitted to install or operate pumps pumping water directly from the mains of the Department’s system except in cases approved in writing. No such approval will be given in cases where it is the opinion of the Department that such an installation and the operation thereof may adversely affect the water service extended by the Department to other consumers.

2. Approvals given by the Department under this section will be qualified by clauses making them revocable upon ninety (90) days’ notice during which period the consumer, if he desires to continue the operation of the pump, shall eliminate the objectionable features causing the giving of such notice.

3. No pump shall be equipped with a direct water supply connection for priming purposes except with the written permission of the Department.

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