HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 8839
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ORDINANCE N0. 8839
An Ordinance providing for water regulations, and providing a penalty for
failure to comply therewith, and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, the constant growth of the City has expanded the use of water for
irrigation and for other purposes to a point where during unusual and excessively
hot weather, water must be used conservatively in order to maintain adequate fire
protection and sanitary conditions essential to the preservation of the health of
the people of the city.
Now therefore,
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Eugene Water Board has heretofore adopted reasonable regula-
tions with respect t o t her use of water for irrigation in the city providing for alter-
nate days of use on eacY~ side of the City. Ttie Council hereby adopts and enacts said
regulations and directs the water board to issue notifications to water users by mail
stating the regulati ons; the Council hereby setting Detober 1, 19145, as the time at
which such regulations shall cease and be of no further effect.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in the
City of Eugene to.fail to comply with the foregoing regulation on the use of water.
Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation failing to observe the regulata
tions promulgated by the water board as hereinbefore set out, shall be deemed guilty
of a violation of the provisions of this ordinance and upon conviction before the
municipal fudge shall be fined not to exceed X100.00 and may be imprisoned one day
for each X2.00 of thefine unpaid.
Seetiaril~. Whereas, Eugene is experiencing a servers hot spell and constit-
uting a threat to the City's safety in the mattor of fire protection and also in the
matter of the health of the citizens occasioned by a water shortage, an emergency is
therefore declared to exist and the Council declared that it is necessary for the peace,
health and safety of the City of Eugene that this ordinance take effect immediately upon
its passage by the Council and approval by the Mayor, and it is so ordered.
PASSED BY THE COMt~QON COUNCIL
this 9th day of July, 19+5•
~s~ John Fields
recor er
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR THIS
10th day of July, 19145.
~s~ Earl L. McNutt
Mayor