A. Mandatory Connections:
1. Required: The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes 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 any public sanitary sewer of the city is required, at his expense, to install suitable toilet and wastewater facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, no later than September 30, 1982. (Ord. 147, 1980; amd. Ord. 174, 1982)
2. Accessibility To Public Sewers: Accessibility to the public sewers of the city is declared to be properties abutting on any street, alley or right of way in which there is located a public sewer main; provided, that such public sewer main is within two hundred feet (200') of the property line or building or establishment; and provided, further, that it is feasible that a sewer connection can be constructed. (Ord. 147, 1980)
B. Drainage Connections:
1. Application For Connection:
a. Any person desiring to make any connection with the waterworks and sewerage system or plant for their water service, or have the use thereof shall first make application through the city clerk upon a blank form or forms furnished by the city. With regard to such application and installation, the following shall apply: The application shall contain an agreement on the part of the applicant that all the rules, regulations, conditions and provisions of any ordinance relating to the waterworks and sewerage system will be complied with; that all water and sewerage rates, assessments and rents and fines and penalties assessed, charged or imposed against the applicant upon the property described in the application will be paid. In the case of new construction, the application shall be made at the same time as the application for a building permit as required in this code, and no building permit will be issued without a permit hereunder having first been issued. When the applicant hereunder has complied with all the provisions of the ordinances of the city, and the city has approved the application, and all applicable permit fees have been paid, a written permit shall then be issued by the city clerk authorizing the connection to be made and specifying the size thereof. (Ord. 404, 5-22-2000)
b. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the permit and inspection fee for any sewer service connection shall be two hundred dollars ($200.00), provided however that with respect to connections to sewer mains privately owned and maintained in manufactured home districts, the permit and inspection fee for such connections shall instead be one hundred dollars ($100.00). City inspections as set forth in subsection B1c of this section shall still be required in such instances. (Ord. 406, 6-12-2000)
c. Prior to covering any sewer service lines after installation of same, the applicant will notify the city, which will then cause the proposed sewer service line to be inspected by a city representative. (Ord. 404, 5-22-2000)
2. Discharges Of Plumbing Fixtures, Commercial Or Industrial Wastes: The discharge from plumbing fixtures or commercial or industrial liquid wastes shall be connected to the public sanitary sewer of the city and shall specifically include basement floor drains.
3. Prohibited Connections: The connection of footing tile, area drains, surface water inlets, downspout, yard or field drains or any other drainage facility which receives ground water seepage or collected surface water to the public sanitary sewers of the city is prohibited.
4. Maintenance And Repair: After installation, the owner shall assume all responsibility for maintenance and repair of service pipe from the sewer main to and including the building plumbing. The city may, in case of emergency, repair any service pipes, and if this is done the cost of such repair work shall be repaid to the city by the owner of the premises served. All excavation and/or repair work on city right of way or property shall be conducted by the city, which shall be reimbursed for the reasonable cost for the work and for damages for injury or damage to the right of way and street, by owner. (Ord. 147, 1980; amd. Ord. 307, 1994; Ord. 404, 5-22-2000)