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Title 18, Chapter 1
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§ 18-101
Kingston
Title 18 : Water and Sewers
Chapter 1 : Water And Sewer System Administration

18-122 : Liability for cutoff failures.

The city's liability shall be limited to the forfeiture of the right to charge a customer for water that is not used, but is received from a service line under any of the following circumstances:

  1. After receipt of at least ten (10) days' written notice to cut off water service, the city has failed to cut off such service.
  2. The city has attempted to cut off a service but such service has not been completely cut off.

  3. The city has completely cut off a service but subsequently the cutoff develops a leak or is turned on again so that water enters the customer's pipes from the city's main.

    Except to the extent stated above, the city shall not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from cutoff failures. If a customer wishes to avoid possible damage for cutoff failures, the customer shall rely exclusively on privately owned cutoffs and not on the city's cutoff. Also, the customer (and not the city) shall be responsible for seeing that his plumbing is properly drained and is kept properly drained, after his water service has been cut off.