§ 13.00.550 SEWER SYSTEM OVERFLOWS AND INTERFERENCES, PUBLIC NUISANCE, ABATEMENT ORDERS AND CLEANUP COSTS.
   A.   Notwithstanding any waiver of any grease interceptor or other grease control device requirements under this chapter or any waiver or variance, a food facility determined by the City Manager to have contributed to a sewer blockage, SSOs or any sewer system interferences resulting from the discharge of wastewater or waste containing FOG, shall be ordered by the City Manager to install and maintain a grease interceptor, and may be subject to a plan to abate the nuisance and prevent any future health hazards created by sewer line failures and blockages, SSOs or any other sewer system interferences.
   B.   Sewer line failures, blockages, SSOs and other sewer system interferences may cause threat and injury to public health, safety, and welfare of life and property and are hereby declared public nuisances.
   C.   If the city must act immediately to contain and clean up a SSO caused by blockage of a private or public sewer lateral or serving a food facility, or other sewer system, facility or line failures, blockages, or other sewer system interferences, or at the request of the property owner or operator of the food facility, or because of the failure of the property owner or the food facility to abate the condition causing immediate threat of injury to the health, safety, welfare, or property of the public, the city’s costs for such abatement shall be entirely borne by the property owner or the operator of the FSE, and the individual(s) as a responsible officer, operator or owner of the FSE(s), and shall constitute a debt to the city and become due and immediately payable upon the city’s request for reimbursement of such costs.
(Ord. 1137, passed 4-20-10)