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Injury or alteration of water- works or inside services.

Fraudulent

measure. ment.

Inter-

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21. Every 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 not excceding two hundred and fifty dollars.

22. Every 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 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.

23. Every unauthorized person who interferes with or ference with opens or shuts any valve or hydrant or stop cock belonging valves, etc.

to the waterworks shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

Water to be taken only through

metered inside services or

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

Pollution.

Penalities

25.-(a) Every person who deposits or allows to be 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.

(b) Every person who bathes, washes his person or enters in any part or any water of the waterworks, or washes, throws or causes to enter therein any creature, alive or dead, or any thing, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

26. Every breach of this Ordinance or regulations for for breaches which no penalty is by this Ordinance otherwise expressly not provided

provided shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars..

for.

Water authority may be

represented by an authorized officer.

Penalties do not prejudice powers of water authority.

27. In any complaint or proceedings under this Ordin- ance the water authority may be represented by an authorized officer.

28. No fine or punishment imposed under this Ordinance. or regulations shall affect or prejudice the powers of the water authority under section 5 of this Ordinance.