(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter and when approval has been obtained from the appropriate regulatory authority. Stormwater or other unpolluted discharges shall be discharged to storm sewers, roadside ditches, culverts or any natural outlet approved by the appropriate regulatory authority except where such discharges are allowed to be discharged to the sanitary sewer under a special agreement approved by the Superintendent.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain within the City any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(d) The owner of a house, building or property 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 a public sanitary or combined sewer of the City, is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with this chapter within ninety days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(e) Whenever the paving or repairing of any street or public highway has been ordered by Council, the City Engineer shall serve upon such owners of property abutting such street or highway, as he or she may deem necessary, a notice directing such owners to make such sewer and water connections as he or she may designate within a time specified therein.
(f) At the expiration of the time specified, if the connections are not made as herein provided, the City Engineer shall cause the same to be made, and the cost thereof shall temporarily be paid by the City, which cost, together with a penalty of six percent, shall be assessed by Council on property abutting on the street or highway to be paved, to be paid in cash to the Finance Director. If not so paid, the Clerk of Council shall certify the assessments to the County Auditor to be collected as other taxes are collected.
(g) Whenever sanitary sewers or portions thereof are laid at the expense of the City without the cost of the line or lines being paid for by, or assessed against, all the property owners abutting the lines and benefited thereby, the owner of any of the abutting property to be serviced by the line or lines and for which property the cost thereof has not been paid or assessed shall pay his or her pro rata share of the line or lines before tapping in.
(h) Whenever the lines are laid by the owners or other persons with the authority and under the direction of the City Engineer, except in cases where the owners of new subdivisions are required to make installations at their expense by an order of the Planning Commission under and by virtue of the Subdivision Regulations of the City, these persons shall certify the cost of the improvements to the City Engineer immediately upon completion. These amounts shall be subject to the approval of the City Engineer and may be reduced if the City Engineer, in his or her unqualified discretion, feels that the costs are excessive.
(i) The owner of any abutting property serviced by the line or lines, for which the cost has not been paid, shall pay his or her pro rata share of the cost of the line or lines as determined by the City Engineer before tapping in. The money received shall be paid to the persons who paid the cost of the line, or to their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns. However, no payment to a person or persons shall be made more than ten years after completion of the job and certification of the cost to the City Engineer. Any money received for tapping in after ten years shall be a part of the sanitary sewer fund of the City.
(Ord. 5330. Passed 10-15-91.)