(A) It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain or use any pit privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility used or intended to be used for the disposal of wastewater where public sanitary sewer service is available as defined in § 51.015 (A), except as provided for in §§ 51.035 and 51.036.
(B) The existence within the city, wherever the services of the city sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal facilities are now available, of open surface drainage of wastewater, pit privy, privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, sewage lateral, earth pits, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage fields, private sewage disposal systems, or any other facility or works for the disposition of the sanitary sewage wastes other than the facilities of the city, is declared to be a menace to the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of the city and is hereby determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance.
(C) The existence of facilities such as toilets, sinks, wash basins, shower baths, bath tubs, kitchen sinks, any commercial or industrial machinery, facility, or device producing a liquid waste product and the like in or upon any improved property or premises in this city where the facilities of the city’s sanitary sewage collection treatment system are available, or may hereafter be made available, is declared to be a menace to the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of this city and is determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance, unless the facilities and/or devices are connected to the city’s sanitary sewage collection and treatment system.
(D) The city acting through its Mayor or the Superintendent of the Sewage Department may prescribe the type and manner of connection to the sanitary sewage collection and treatment system, and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized agent of the city.
(Ord. 408-1986, passed 9-25-86) Penalty, see § 51.999