Bakersfield Municipal Code Ch. 14.08 Water—purity

It shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation furnishing water for domestic and/or other uses to the city and its inhabitants to supply pure, clean and wholesome water in quantities sufficient for the service to which the user is entitled, and to extend its mains to other or additional sources of water supply if and when its present sources are inadequate, insufficient, unclean, or unsuitable for the needs of its patrons in the city, and to keep its distributive system reasonably free from obstruction and foreign matters or substances, and to supply water to its patrons in sufficient quantities and under sufficient pressure for all ordinary and proper uses. (Prior code § 8.60.010)

A. Sources of water supply, reservoirs, tanks or other storage and pumping facilities shall be kept sanitary and be open to the inspection at any and all times of the city manager and commissioner of public utilities and franchises.

B. Any person, firm or corporation furnishing such water shall make tests as to the purity of water, including bacteriological analysis, mineral, and organic contents at its own expense when requested to do so by the city manager and commissioner of public utilities and franchises, and at their request furnish to said city a certified copy thereof. (Prior code § 8.60.020)

A. If and when any such person, firm or corporation furnishing water for domestic and/or other uses to the inhabitants of the city fails, in the opinion of the city manager and the commissioner of public utilities and franchises, to comply with each and all of the conditions set out in Sections 14.08.010 and 14.08.020, then and in that event they shall petition the council of the city to take action requiring the correction thereof. Whereupon, the city council may, in its discretion, issue an order to show cause against the person, firm or corporation supplying water for domestic and/or other uses to the inhabitants of the city requiring such person, firm or corporation at a definite time or place to show cause, if any, he or it may have why he or it should not be compelled to comply with and correct the conditions set out in said petition. The city council shall cause notice of said order to show cause to be served on said person, firm or corporation at least five days before the hearing hereof.

B. At the time set for said hearing or at any time to which the same may be adjourned the council may proceed to hear evidence as to the facts and conditions set out in said petition, and to pass upon the same. If said council finds that the allegations are true and that the conditions should be remedied, then said person, firm or corporation so furnishing said water shall by order of the council remedy the defect within a time to be specified by the council in its said order. (Prior code § 8.60.030)

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation furnishing said water to fail or refuse to comply with the order of said council, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of not to exceed one hundred dollars for each and every day which it fails to comply with said order, and each and every day being a separate and distinct offense. (Prior code § 8.60.040)