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due.

18. In any such action a certificate under the hand of Proof of the water authority that any sum of money is due shall in moneys the absence of evidence to the contrary be conclusive evidence of such debt and of the non-payment thereof.

for charge-

19. No consumer shall be entitled to set off consumption Payments in any one quarter, month or other period against a less amount able water used in any other quarter, month or period.

Offences and penalties.

to be final,

20. Every person who wilfully or negligently misuses Waste. 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 not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

clothes near

21. Every person who in any public street, road or Washing lane washes clothes at or near a public standpipe with water public therefrom shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine standpipes. not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

alteration

inside

22. Every person who wilfully or negligently injures Injury or the waterworks, or unlawfully draws off, diverts or takes of water- water from the same or from any stream or waters by which works or the waterworks are supplied, or alters or causes or permits services. any inside service to be altered without the approval of the water authority, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

Fraudulent measure.

23. Every person who alters or causes or permits to be altered any inside service with intent to avoid the accurate ment. 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 not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and any inside service so altered or meter so injured or interfered with shall be replaced or repaired by the water authority and the cost of such replace- ment or repair may be recovered upon the order of a magistrate from the person convicted in the same manner as a fine.

24. Every unauthorized person who interferes with or opens or shuts any valve or hydrant or stop cock belonging to the waterworks shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

Inter- valves, etc.

ference with

taken only

25. Every person who takes any water from the water- Water to be works except through a metered inside service or from a through public standpipe without the permission of the water authority metered shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding services or two hundred and fifty dollars.

inside

public stand-

pipes.

26. (a) Every person who deposits or allows to be Pollution. deposited any earth, material or liquid in such manner or place that it may

be washed, fall or be carried into the waterworks shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and if such earth, material or liquid is allowed to remain so deposited after notice in writing from the water authority requiring it to be removed has been given to such person he shall be liable to a further fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each day during which the offence continues.

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