The city may refuse to connect any premises to its pipe lines or refuse to deliver water to any consumer if by so doing it will endanger the efficiency of the city’s service or its property; or to enlarge any line, already in use, for the benefit of a proposed consumer except upon an advance payment by such consumer of such part of the construction cost as the city may require, not exceeding the entire cost. (Ord. 2961 § 1, 2015; Ord. 1090 § 7, 1952)