A. Connection Required: The owner or occupant of any house, building or property used for residential, commercial, industrial, governmental or recreational use, or other purpose, situated within the City which is abutting on or having a permanent right of access to any street, alley or right of way in which there is located a public sewer of said City, is hereby required to cease using any other method of disposing of sewage, waste or polluted water, at the owners expense, connect such building directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. The owner or occupant shall complete this within thirty (30) days after date of official notice from the City; provided that said sewer is within two hundred feet (200') of any property line to be served or common property line in a multiple building development.
B. New Subdivisions: The developer of any new subdivision, at their expense, shall construct the necessary extensions of the public sewer system to provide public sewer facilities to each lot in the subdivision and where multiple buildings are anticipated on a future lot, the developer shall make sewer available to each building where warranted. These extensions of City's sewer system may include, but not be limited to, the installation of mains, manholes, lift stations, and other facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewerage or sewage byproducts.
C. Unlawful To Deposit: It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste as described in section 10-3-8
of this chapter.
D. Privies, Septic Tanks Or Cesspools Prohibited: Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
E. Permit Required: No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances or perform any work on any lateral or building sewer without first obtaining a written permit from the city as provided for at section 10-3-14
of this chapter.
F. Adjacent Public Sewer For Each Lot: It shall be the position of the city that each lot be adjacent to a public sewer main. Where such a main does not exist at the time of plat or development, the landowner, property owner or developer may extend a public sewer main in accordance with applicable sections of this chapter. The City shall avoid approval of lateral sewer lines which cross private property through private easement, where practical.
G. Public Sewer Located In Public Right Of Way: It shall be the position of the city that any new public sewer system, identified as property of the city, be located, sited, placed, constructed and/or installed within a publicly owned right-of-way. Newly planned public sewer mains placed in private easements or on private property should not be allowed. Where a public sewer main is located within a private easement, the easement shall be no less than thirty feet (30') in width and provide the city with unencumbered public access to the facility to access, maintain, construction or repair the line. Any obstructions placed in said easement may be removed and not replaced by the city should access be required to maintain or operate the system. (Ord. 602, - -2022; amd. Ord. 608, 6-6-2023)