(a) Depositing of Objectionable Waste Prohibited. No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) Discharge of Polluted Waste to Natural Outlet Prohibited. No person shall discharge into any natural outlet within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(c) Private Disposal of Sewage Prohibited. Except as hereinafter provided in this chapter, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(d) Connection Required; Noncompliance. Every owner or occupant of any property, which is convenient of access to or bounds or abuts upon any sanitary sewer in this City, shall make adequate connections with such sanitary sewer. Such sanitary sewer connections must be made within nine months of the sewer availability, according to the regulations of council and by proper underground connections. In any case where there is failure by the property owner to comply with the foregoing, notice shall be given to such owner, tenant or occupant to make such connections forthwith, and if, within such nine months time of the sewer availability such connection is not made, the City shall then proceed to make such connection at the expense of the owner and assess it as a lien upon the property.
(e) Charges Levied Despite Owner’s Noncompliance. In all cases where property is served by an adequate sanitary sewer, the failure on the part of the property owner to connect into the sanitary sewer within the required nine months shall then necessitate the Director to charge the property owner such sanitary sewer charges as are currently in effect and to collect same according to the regulations of the City.
(Ord. 2004-24. Passed 4-13-04.)