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No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the city and any commercial or industrial concern whereby any waste of unusual strength or character may be conditionally accepted by the city for treatment, subject to payment therefor by the discharger.
('66 Code, § 6-4.118) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79)
ARTICLE 2: SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LATERAL SEWER. That portion of any side sewer within a street or public easement.
MUNICIPAL SEWER DISPOSAL SYSTEM. The sewage treatment plant, pump stations, outfall sewer line, and appurtenant structures and equipment constructed or acquired by the city and comprising the sewerage disposal system, including the primary clarification treatment plant, digester, digester control building, pumping station, separate sludge digestion and sludge drying beds, bar screens and detritor structure, office and laboratory, pipes and pipelines, sewage disposal machinery and equipment, lands, easements, rights-of-way, and other works, property, or structures necessary or convenient for a sewerage disposal system.
MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM. The municipal sewer disposal system, together with all trunk sewers, main sewers, lateral sewers, and outside sewers, all comprising the municipal sewer system of the city.
OUTSIDE SEWER. Sewer lines lying outside the city limits.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT. Any two or more rooms having a bathroom or toilet and kitchen plumbing facilities, suitable for residential occupancy by any number of persons living together as a single-family, including single-family dwellings, and each group of rooms constituting living quarters for a single-family in any duplex, triplex, apartment, court, or other multiple dwelling structure, but excluding any living or sleeping quarters in hotels, apartments, rooming houses, motels, or auto courts where kitchen facilities are not provided.
SIDE SEWER. That part of any sewer piping beginning at the junction thereof with any house plumbing system at not closer than two feet outside the foundation wall of the building served and terminating in any main sewer.
('66 Code, § 6-4.201) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79)
(A) Required. No person owning any premises within the city on which the nearest outlet of the plumbing system of such premises is located within 200 feet from the point at which a connection can be made to the municipal sewer system, and upon which any sewage (exclusive old industrial sewage or industrial wastes) is produced, shall use any means of sewage disposal other than through the municipal sewer system. Every person owning any premises so located and upon or in which any sewage (exclusive of industrial sewage or industrial wastes) is produced shall be required to connect such premises to the municipal sewer system within 30 days from the date when a main sewer or lateral sewer located within the distance specified in this division is completed and available for connection to such premises. Applicants for new sewer connections shall pay the sewer capacity charge designated by resolution.
(B) Declaration of public nuisances. The city hereby declares that the further maintenance or use of cesspools or other local means of sewage disposal on any premises so located shall constitute a public nuisance, and the city may invoke any legal means or the police power to abate the same.
(‘66 Code, § 6-4.202) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79; Am. Ord. 2103-C-S, passed 5-12-15) Penalty, see § 6-4.210
(A) Required. No person whose premises are not now connected with the municipal sewer system shall connect any premises or cause any premises to be connected with the municipal sewer system without first obtaining a permit to do so from the City Engineer.
(B) Filing of statements. The City Engineer may require any person who applies for any such permit to file a statement or affidavit for the guidance of the City Engineer and the Council in ascertaining the amount of the monthly sewer service charge payable by such person pursuant to the provisions of this article. Each such statement or affidavit shall contain such information as may be required by the City Engineer. Failure by any person to file such statement or affidavit containing such required information shall constitute a violation of the provisions of this article. No statement or affidavit shall be conclusive as to the matters therein set forth, nor shall the filing of any statement or affidavit preclude the city from collecting from the person responsible for payment, as provided in this article, by appropriate action, such sum as is actually due and payable for monthly sewer service charges under the provisions of this article. Each such statement or affidavit and each of the several items therein contained shall be subject to verification by the City Engineer.
('66 Code, § 6-4.203) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79) Penalty, see § 6-4.210
(A) For the purpose of providing funds for the payment of the costs of the maintenance and operation of the municipal sewer disposal system, there are hereby levied and assessed upon all premises having, or required by the provisions of this article to have, any sewer connection with, or discharging or required to discharge sewage into or through, the municipal sewer system monthly sewer service charges for the services and facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage furnished or available to such premises by the municipal sewer disposal system.
(B) Such charges shall be established from time to time by resolution of the Council or amendments thereto. For periods of service of less than one month, the sewer service charges shall be prorated in a like manner as the charges for water service are prorated.
(‘66 Code, § 6-4.204) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79; Am. Ord. 2101-C-S, passed 5-12-15)
Sewer service charges shall become effective immediately upon the beginning of the operation of the sewage treatment plant as to all premises then connected to the municipal sewer system, and there-after such charges shall become effective against all premises not then connected to the municipal sewer system immediately upon connection, or within 30 days from the time a connection to the municipal sewer system could be made, as provided in § 6-4.202 of this article, whichever is the earlier.
('66 Code, § 6-4.205) (Ord. 409-C-S, passed 8-9-79)
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