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Recovery of moneys.
Proof of moneys due.
Waste.
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Washing clothes near public standpipes.
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Injury or alteration of waterworks or inside services.
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Fraudulent measurement.
Waterworks.
Moneys due.
17. All moneys, other than penalties or fines, payable or recoverable under this Ordinance shall be recoverable at the suit of the Accountant General in the summary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court together with interest thereon at a rate not exceeding eight per cent per annum, and any judgment given or order made shall be enforced in the same manner in which any judgment or order may be enforced in any other action in the Supreme Court.
18. In any such action a certificate under the hand of the water authority that any sum of money is due shall in the absence of evidence to the contrary be conclusive evidence of such debt and of the non-payment thereof.
Offences and penalties.
19. Any person who wilfully or negligently misuses or wastes or allows to be misused or wasted any water supplied from the waterworks either through a metered service or public standpipe shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
20. Any person who in any public street, road or lane washes clothes at or near a public standpipe with water therefrom shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.
21. Any person who wilfully or negligently injures the waterworks, or unlawfully draws off, diverts or takes water from the same or from any stream or waters by which the waterworks are supplied, or alters or causes or permits any inside service to be altered without the approval of the water authority, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
22. Any person who alters or causes or permits to be altered any inside service with intent to avoid the accurate measurement of water by means of any meter, or who wilfully or negligently interferes with or injures any meter, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and any inside service so altered or meter so injured or interfered with shall be replaced or ...
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