Boonville Restrictions on business, institutional and industrial uses ordinance (§ 21-42)

In times of emergency, any restrictions imposed on the consumption of water within the city shall first be levied against industrial, institutional and business users, with the city administrator hereby empowered to limit the consumption of water by industrial, institutional and business users to the amount used by such users during the corresponding month of the year previous to the emergency, a fraction thereof, or he may suspend such services entirely when, in his opinion, the welfare of the city so warrants. If no previous year consumption data is available, the city administrator shall establish a formula establishing a consumption average.