(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and the city’s NPDES/SDS permit.
(C) Except as provided hereinafter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is situated within the city and adjacent to any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the city, shall be required at the owner(s) expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this code, within 20 days of the date the public sewer is operational with the following exception: those owners of property which was annexed into the City of Amboy by Joint Resolution Between the Township of Shelby and the City of Amboy, the Resolution dated 5-5-1986, will be permitted to continue to use their septic tank systems until the time as these existing systems must be replaced. At that time, the owner(s) must install suitable service connections to the public sewer. During the time these individual septic tank systems are still in use, they must meet all requirements of any and all state statutes and rules pertaining to their operation. All future buildings from which wastewater is discharged that are constructed in the city shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this division (D), an official 30-day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make the connection.
(Am. Ord. passed 5-6-1996)
(E) In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under division (D) above, the city must undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the Auditor of the County of Blue Earth, Minnesota, and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 101, passed 1-3-1990) Penalty, see § 10.99