10A.15.030 Responsibility and Liability of Customer and City.
(1) The City, its officers, and employees shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever caused by
(a) any defect in the customer's line, plumbing, or equipment.
(b) water passing through the customer's valves and pipes which may be open or defective at the time water is ordered turned on by the customer.
(c) high or low water pressure conditions, water interruptions, or shortage or insufficiency of water supply. The use of water upon the premises of the customer is at the risk of the customer, and the responsibility of the City shall cease at the point of delivery of water which shall be at the customer's side of the water meter.
(d) water service being temporarily interrupted as provided for in 10A.15.040 or cutoff to a user for nonpayment of charges as provided for in 10A.35.030.
(e) the effects resulting from the breaking of a pipe, connection, or other part of the water system because of pressure, accident, or other cause which is not the fault of the City.
(2) The City does not assume the duty of inspecting a customer's water line, plumbing, or equipment located beyond the customer's side of the water meter to points of water usage on a customer's premises and shall not be responsible therefore, and will not be responsible if a customer fails to receive water service on the customer's premises on account of defective piping, plumbing, or apparatus located on the customer's side of a water meter. (Ord. 88-23 §17, 1988).