§ 51.015  MANDATORY SEWER CONNECTION.
   (A)   All owners, tenants, occupants of dwelling houses, apartments, apartment buildings, hotels, mobile homes, house trailers, mobile home parks, trailer camps, manufacturing plants, commercial establishments or any other building or structure or unit of any kind or nature used at any time for human occupancy, or suitable for human occupancy, situated on any lot or lots or parcel of land, through which any publicly-owned sewage collection line now or hereafter is installed, or which abuts on any road, street, alley, or easement, in which there is now or is hereafter installed a publicly-owned sanitary sewage collection line or to which property a publicly-owned sanitary sewage line is now or hereafter extended shall at the owner’s or occupant’s sole expense install suitable toilet and other facilities for the receiving of human and domestic waste and other impure waters within 90 days after the sewage collection line is placed in operation, or within 90 days of official notice to do so, connect therewith all sanitary sewage drain pipes of the dwelling(s), house(s), apartment(s), hotel(s), motel(s), mobile home(s), house trailer(s), mobile home park(s), trailer camp(s), manufacturing or commercial establishments, or other building with the sanitary collection line conveying thereby all the sewage and wastewater therefrom into the available sanitary sewage collection treatment and disposal system. The connection shall be made in accordance with all rules and regulations as the city may by ordinance (including this chapter) from time to time establish and the failure to make the connection is hereby declared unlawful and a nuisance.
   (B)   Prior to occupancy or use of any building, structure, or other facility constructed, remodeled, added to, or otherwise modified, located on premises to which a public sewer is available and at such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property or premises served by a private wastewater disposal system, and not previously served by a public sewer, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system (after all necessary permits have been applied for and obtained) in compliance with this chapter. Any septic tanks, cesspools, privy pits, and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleared of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(Ord. 408-1986, passed 9-25-86) Penalty, see § 51.999