CHAPTER 51: SEWERS
Section
Connections; Discharges; Rates
   51.01   Connection with sewer system required
   51.02   New buildings to be connected with sewer system
   51.03   Privies, cesspools, and the like prohibited
   51.04   Prohibited discharges
Excavations for Utility Purposes
   51.15   Definitions
   51.16   Permit required; application, fee
   51.17   Repair and restoration
   51.18   Inspection fee
   51.19   Bond
   51.20   Liability insurance
   51.21   City may authorize repair or restoration; lien
   51.22   Violations
Storm Sewers
   51.40   Connection required
   51.41   Plans for drainage required for permit issuance
   51.42   Disposal where connection impractical
§ 51.01 CONNECTION WITH SEWER SYSTEM REQUIRED; TAPPING FEE.
   All owners and occupants of houses, apartments, hotels, motels, mobile homes, manufacturing or commercial establishments, or any other buildings of any kind situated upon lots abutting on any street, alley, or easement in the city in which there has heretofore been installed a sewer line of the municipal sewer system of the city, or in which there is hereafter installed a sewer line which is part of any future extension or improvement to said municipal sewer system, shall, within 90 days from the date such sewer line is installed and placed in operation, connect therewith all sanitary sewerage drain pipes of such houses, apartments, hotels, motels, mobile homes, manufacturing or commercial establishments, or other buildings, conveying the sewage therefrom into said sewer line.
(Ord. 830.1, passed 10-21-65; Am. Ord. 1997-7, passed 3-4-97; Am. Ord. 2019-6, passed 4-16-19) Civil offense, see § 38.15
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Cross-reference:
   Bond requirement for persons making sewer connections, see § 110.10
§ 51.02 NEW BUILDINGS TO BE CONNECTED WITH SEWER SYSTEM.
   All architects, contractors, builders, or other person who shall erect new buildings for dwelling, manufacturing, or commercial purposes on a lot or parcel of ground abutting on a street, alley, or easement in the city in which there may be hereafter installed and maintained any sewer line shall, before erecting the building, exhibit to the City Council or any other board or body of the city which may be in charge and control of the municipal sewer system, satisfactory evidence that a means has been or will be provided for connecting the sanitary sewerage drain pipes from the building to the sewer line. No storm-water drain shall be connected with any sanitary sewer hereafter constructed, nor shall any stormwater be otherwise introduced into any separate sanitary sewer.
(Ord. 830.1, passed 10-21-65; Am. Ord. 1997-7, passed 3-4-97; Am. Ord. 2019-6, passed 4-16-19) Civil offense, see § 38.15
§ 51.03 PRIVIES, CESSPOOLS, AND THE LIKE PROHIBITED.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank, or similar contrivance for the reception of sewage when the premises abut on a public sewer line in any street, alley, or other easement in the city. 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 the premises may be connected.
   (B)   All such privies, surface toilets, or other means of casting or depositing sewerage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, into the soil, into any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well, whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewerage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
(Ord. 830.1, passed 10-21-65; Am. Ord. 1997-7, passed 3-4-97; Am. Ord. 2019-6, passed 4-16-19) Civil offense, see § 38.15
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