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A.
Limited Services: The city hereby declares that, due to the ever growing demands placed upon its utility services by its citizenry and the commercial developments located within the city, the city does not have any primary nor surplus utility services to sell or to provide in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, to nonresidents, commercial developments or to parcels of real property located outside the city's corporate limits. The city shall not sell, deliver, provide to, nor allow any person, firm, partnership, limited company or corporation to purchase, take or divert from the city any utility services of any kind or nature whatsoever.
B.
Exception: Excepted from the purchase or sale prohibitions set forth in this chapter, are such nonresidents and parcels of real property to which the city has supplied utility services for a continuous period of not less than one year prior to the enactment of the ordinance codified herein.
(1985 Code § 18-4-2)