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EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 247 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE WASTE OP WATER; DEFINING WASTE OF WATER; REGULATING THE USE THEREOF; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as followsf WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas is threatened with a water shortage on account of the diminishing supply flowing from the artesian wells in said City and an aecount of the present waste thereof by the inhabitants of said City; and WHEREAS, the capacity of thd sewer system of the City is overtaxed by reason of water wasting into the sewers without being put to a full beneficial use; and WHEREAS, the Board of City Commissioners deem it expedient and necessary for the protection of health, comfort, safety, life, welfare and property of the Inhabitants of said City to regulate the use of water therein and to prevent the waste thereof, NOW THEREFORE, Section 1, Waste of water in the City of Las Vegas is here by prohibited and declared unlawful. Section 2. Any one of the following acts shall constitute waste of water, as the term is used in this ordinance; (a) Permitting a hydrant, tap, cock or valve connected with any water system belonging to any public utility, to leak onto the ground or into any sink, bowl, toilet or tub connected with a sewer or cesspool, or permitting water to drain from a personas premises into any street, alley or road, after the person permitting the same has been notified to remedy such leak or to prevent such draining by any public officer, or an agent of any public utility, as hereinafter defined; (b) Using water from any water system belonging to any public utility for the purpose of cooling any refrigerator, refrigerating machine, ice plant, ice machine, cooler, cooling plant, cooling mystem, air conditioning machine or apparatus, engine or motor, where said water, after being so used, is permitted to flow into a sewer or cesspool or onto the ground, provided, however, that the use of water for such cooling purposes is not prohibited where, after being so used, it is collected, re-cooled and re-used, and is not permitted to flow into a sewer, cesspool, or onto the ground;