(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and the district’s NPDES/SDS permit.
(C) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is situated within the city and adjacent to any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is located a public sanitary sewer of the city shall be required, at the owners’ expense, to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this chapter, within 30 days of the date the public sewer is operational. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this division (D), an official 30-day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make the connection.
(E) If an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under this section, the city must undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost against the benefitted property. Such assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the County Auditor and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 3.12) Penalty, see § 52.99