(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any manner upon public or private property within the City, or in any area within the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable or dangerous waste.
(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction or served by the City, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter or in compliance with requirements of the appropriate regulatory agencies.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any septic tank, cesspool or other facility, within or under the jurisdiction of the City intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(d) The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the City and abutting on 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, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety days after the date of official notice to do so, provided such public sanitary sewer is within 200 feet of such house, building or property.
(e) Except as hereafter provided, no person, firm or company, shall discharge, cause to be discharged, or permit to be discharged, any holding tank, septic tank, commercial, industrial or any other waste or material into any public sewer directly or indirectly.
(1) The only exception to subsection (e) hereof shall be where the Director of Public Service, or the Superintendent of the WRF, or their authorized agents have first authorized such discharge. Each such user shall be charged a fee in accordance with the rates established by Chapter 947.
(2) The only exception to the above is that no permit shall be required for direct discharge of domestic waste generated by a mobile home and/or recreational vehicle, provided that such discharges are made into a receptacle(s) designed and approved by the Director of Public Service to receive such waste. (Ord. 182-91. Passed 11-18-91.)
(f) No person shall connect roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface run-off or ground water to a building sewer or building drainage which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a sanitary sewer. This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection. An actual or threatened discharge to the sanitary sewer system that violates or would violate this section is declared to be a nuisance.
(Ord. 195-2004. Passed 9-27-04.)
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