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16.
A single service may not supply more than one premises.
17.
All new services, renewed services, and existing services transferred to new owners shall be metered. The commission may meter private fire lines if it so desires.
18.
All new and renewed services shall be a minimum of one inch in diameter with no soldered joints underground. Services shall be type K copper tubing. Customers who replace their service line at their discretion shall be responsible for excavating back to the main, backfilling with gravel and compacting the trench. The commission shall re-tap the main, replace the tubing to the corporation stop and patch the road.
19.
All services shall be provided with a full way shut off and valve box at the curb or at a convenient point prescribed by the commission between the curb and the property line, and with a ball valve inside the cellar wall, except that valves without wastes may be used in connections with a meter, one valve to be located on the street side and the other on the building side of the meter. Where more than one building on a premises is supplied by a single service, the branch line to each building shall have an underground shut off valve with valve box outside the building.
20.
When an applicant applies for service, except in conjunction with new main extensions, the commission or its agent will furnish, install, own and maintain such new service connection. The applicant will bear the cost of the service connection pipe and curb stop and their installation. The applicant will also be charged for tapping the main, furnishing and installing the corporation cock and curb box, and for the costs of excavation, backfill and removal and replacement of paving, walks, curbs, etc., necessarily incurred with respect to new services. Such charges shall be assessed in the form of an installation fee which shall be based on the amount of time and material incurred by the water department in performing installation. The minimum installation fee shall be $1,850.00 for services installed on town roads and $3,300.00 for services installed on state highways. Said installation fee shall be utilized to cover the actual installation expenses incurred. The commission will consider, on a case by case basis, requests to waive the installation fee with respect to connections which will service low or moderate income housing as defined in section 45-53-3 of the Rhode Island General Laws as amended from time to time.
21.
The commission or its agent will furnish, install, own and maintain at its expense, all replacements of service connections it deems necessary, including the cost of excavation, backfill, removal, and replacement of paving, walks, curbs, etc. necessarily incurred with respect to each replacement.
22.
The customer at his own expense shall furnish, install, own and maintain the service pipe from the curb stop to the place of consumption, and shall assume ownership of the curb box, keeping service pipe and box in good repair in accordance with reasonable requirements of the commission.
23.
The customer shall inform the commission previous to backfill so that the commission may make an inspection in order to determine whether the service pipe complies with company requirements. No service pipe shall be turned on without prior approval by the commission.
24.
Maintenance of all service pipes from curb stop to inside the cellar wall, shall be paid for by the customer.
25.
The service pipe shall extend through that point on the customer's property line or the street line easiest of access to the utility from its existing distribution system and, where practicable, from a point at right angles to the existing distribution line in front of the premises to be served. New service pipes and replacement of existing service connections shall not cross-intervening properties. The approval of the commission shall be secured as to the proper location for the service pipe.
26.
Services shall be laid at a minimum depth of four to six inches below ground. The commission will not be responsible for damages done to services which have not been properly drained. Services for buildings without cellars shall have underground stop and waste valves between building and curb shutoff.
27.
Customers who wish to convert from seasonal to year round service shall be responsible for lowering service to a minimum depth of four to sic inches below ground level. Such services which have been lowered shall be inspected by the commission before backfilling. The commission, at its discretion, may shut off seasonal meters which are used all year, which have not been lowered to the proper depth.
28.
Water services may not be laid in the same trench with other underground utility facilities.
29.
No service pipe shall cross any portion of a seepage system or be installed less than 10 feet away from any portion of a seepage system.
30.
All existing underground lawn sprinkling systems shall be equipped with check valves and vacuum breakers to prevent back siphonage into the water system.
31.
If part of a multiple family house changes ownership, the new owner shall have a separate service and meter installed.
32.
The cost of restoring a deactivated service in excess of any salvage realized shall be borne by the customer.