A. It is unlawful for any person to willfully or negligently permit or cause the escape or flow of water in such quantity as to cause flooding, to impede vehicular or pedestrian traffic, to create a hazardous condition to such traffic, or to cause damage to the public streets of the city, public utility easements, alleyways or any other publicly owned property.

B. It is unlawful for any person to willfully or negligently permit or cause the escape or flow of water in such quantity as to cause flooding, to impede vehicular traffic or to cause damage to the public streets of the city, public utility easements, alleyways or any other publicly owned property through failure or neglect to properly operate or maintain any structure, delivery ditch, or waste ditch in which said person has a vested right or interest or through the willful or negligent failure of said person to accept water after it has been ordered by him.

C. Swimming pools should be drained on the property to irrigate the landscape on the property whenever possible. If it is not possible to contain all the water from the swimming pool on the property, the water from the swimming pool should be drained into the sanitary sewer cleanout on the property after obtaining approval from the sewer provider.

D. Any person found responsible for a civil violation of this section, whether by admission, default, or after a hearing, shall pay a civil penalty between two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) and two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for the first violation. A second finding of responsibility shall result in a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00) and two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). Any subsequent finding of shall result in a civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). [Ord. 21-10 § 1.]