(a) A separate meter and service connection shall be installed to serve each one-family dwelling unit, as defined in Title 15, Zoning, of the city of Yakima Municipal Code, supplied with domestic water service; provided, multiple dwellings (including duplexes and apartment houses), mobile home parks, co-ops, condominiums, and similar dwelling unit complexes, under single or common ownership or management, may be served by either a single meter and service connection or multiple meters and service connections at the option of the owner or manager thereof, regardless of whether the dwelling units therein are individual consumers for the purpose of computing water service charges as provided by Section 7.68.265.

(b) (1) In the event of the sale or other transfer of title of any one-family dwelling unit constituting a portion of a multiple dwelling, mobile home park, co-op, condominium, or other similar dwelling unit complex so that such sold or otherwise transferred dwelling unit is separately owned, a separate meter and service connection shall be installed to serve each such separately owned dwelling unit; provided, this subsection shall not apply to the sale of dwelling units within condominiums by unit number according to applicable laws.

(2) In the event a separate meter and service connection is required by this section, the city may discontinue water service to the premises which is required to be separately served until such separate meter and service connection is installed.

(c) After the applicant has complied with all the prescribed requirements relating to the application for service connections and has paid all charges, the city shall cause the property described to be connected with the municipal water system. Wherever practicable the service connection shall be made in the street in front of the property to be served. Each service shall consist of a tap and connection with the main pipe, a length of service pipe extending from the main to a curb cock and water meter situated outside of the traveled roadway adjacent to the property to be served, together with the necessary covers for meters and curb cock.

(d) The city shall have the right to install a single service pipe from the main to the property line, of sufficient size to supply two or more separate properties, and with individual curb cocks and meters for the separate properties. (Ord. 1556 § 1, 1973: Ord. B-606 § 10, 1944).