Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 13.36 Fire Hydrants

Fire hydrants shall be opened only by city employees or such persons as may have first obtained a written permit from the water department. No such permit shall be issued to any person who has violated any of the provisions of this title or whose indebtedness to the department for water used or damage to hydrants is delinquent.

Before operating any hydrant valve for the purpose of obtaining water for cleaning or sprinkling the streets, flooding ditches, flushing sewers and culverts or for any other use except fighting fire by members of the fire department, a wheel-type gate valve having a National Standard Fire Thread (female thread on one end and male thread on the other) shall be installed on the hydrant outlet and this valve shall be the only valve operated for turning the water off and on, except for the initial opening and the final shut-off of the hydrant. Every person opening fire hydrants shall replace the caps on the outlets when the same are not in use. Failure to do so will be sufficient cause to prohibit further use of the hydrants and the refusal to grant subsequent permits for the use of such fire hydrants.

(Prior code § 14-120)