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Title 18 : Water and Sewers
Chapter 1 : Water And Sewers

18-127 : Liability for cutoff failures.

The town'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 cutoff a water service, the town has failed to cutoff such service.
  2. The town has attempted to cutoff a service but such service has not been completely cutoff.

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

    Except to the extent stated above, the Town of Mountain 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 town's cutoff. Also, the customer (and not the town) shall be responsible for seeing that his plumbing is properly drained and is kept properly drained, after his water service has been cutoff. (1994 Code, § 18-127)