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§ 50.030 WRITTEN NOTICE.
   Any person found to be violating any provision of the Sewer Use Ordinance, adopted by reference in § 50.003 of this chapter, except Art. IX, § F thereof, shall be served by the Board of Utility Commissioners and/or the city or other authority, such as the County Health Department, with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
(Prior Code, § 50.20) (Ord. passed 3-6-1989)
§ 50.031 REVOCATION OF PERMIT.
   Any person violating any of the provisions of the Sewer Use Ordinance, as adopted by reference in § 50.003 of this chapter, shall be subject to termination of its authority to discharge sewage into the city sewer system upon a determination pursuant to the terms of the Sewer Use Ordinance that such violation currently exists and is of a continuing nature.
(Prior Code, § 50.21) (Ord. passed 3-6-1989)
§ 50.032 LIABILITY.
   Any person violating any of the provisions of the Sewer Use Ordinance, as adopted by reference in § 50.003 of this chapter, shall become liable to the Board of Utility Commissioners and/or the city for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the Board of Utility Commissioners and/or the city by reason of such violation.
(Prior Code, § 50.22) (Ord. passed 3-6-1989)
CONNECTIONS
§ 50.045 CONNECTION WITH PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM REQUIRED.
   All owners and occupants of houses, hotels, manufacturing or commercial establishments, or any building of any kind, situated upon lots abutting upon any street, alley or other easement or private property in which there is a sewer line which is a part of the sewer system of the city, shall connect therewith all sewerage drainpipes of such houses, hotels, manufacturing or commercial establishments or other buildings conveying sewerage, as hereinafter defined, therefrom. The connections shall be made under such regulations as the City Council may establish by ordinance, and to fail to do so is hereby declared to be unlawful and to be a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 50.25) (Ord. passed 11-2-1953) Penalty, see § 50.999
§ 50.046 NEW BUILDINGS.
All architects, contractors, builders or other persons who shall erect new buildings or repair old buildings shall, before doing so, exhibit to the City Council or other board or body of the city in charge and control of the operation of the combined and consolidated municipal waterworks and sewer system satisfactory evidence that a means has been or will be provided for connecting, as soon as practicable, the sewerage drain from the building with the municipal sewer system. The buildings to be erected or repaired shall be situated on a lot abutting on a street, alley or other easement or private property in which there is located a line of such sewer system.
(Prior Code, § 50.26) (Ord. passed 11-2-1953) Penalty, see § 50.999
§ 50.047 PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool or similar contrivance for the reception of human excreta or other sewerage when the premises abut upon a public sewer line in either street, alley or other easement or private property. All such privies or toilets shall be removed by the owners and the occupants of the property abutting on any street, alley or other easement or private property on which runs a sewer line and to which the drainage from such premises may be connected. All such privies or surface toilets or other means of casting or depositing human excreta or other sewerage upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water or into any cistern, well or sink whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewerage are hereby declared to be nuisances and shall be abated.
   (B)   When the house, hotel, manufacturing or commercial establishment or other building from which the sewerage drained is situated on a lot not abutting on a street, alley or other easement or private property in which a line of the municipal sewer system runs and which, for this reason, may not be drained into public sewer system, then the sewerage from such locations may be drained into a state septic tank or into a state pit with concrete floor and riser. Where inside toilets not connected with the municipal sewer system for reasons of location as stated above, then so long as such conditions exist, such sewerage shall be drained into a state septic tank constructed according to the specifications prescribed by the State Board of Health. Where there is no inside toilet, then the sewerage from such premises shall be connected with a pit with concrete floor and riser constructed and maintained according to the specifications of the State Board of Health. Such specifications are set out in printed exhibits of the State Board of Health marked “A” and “B” respectively, and now made a part of this chapter by reference, and one copy marked “A” and the other “B” are attached to Ord. dated 11-2-1953. The construction of such septic tank or pit above referred to shall be approved by the State Board of Health or by an authorized representative of the city, or by the City Engineer, as conforming to the terms of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 50.27) (Ord. passed 11-2-1953) Penalty, see § 50.999
§ 50.048 SEWER TAPS.
   The procedure for all sewer taps shall be as follows.
   (A)   All sewer taps shall be made by the city water and sewer system.
   (B)   The city water and sewer system will run the extension from such taps to the property line of the particular property which is to be serviced.
   (C)   No individual, other than an employee of the city water and sewer system, shall be allowed to render this service.
(Prior Code, § 50.28) (Ord. passed 3-19-1956) Penalty, see § 50.999
CROSS-CONNECTIONS
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