(A) Deposits. It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 said city, any human excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(B) Discharges. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this subchapter.
(C) Private systems. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) Connection required; exception. The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the sewer service area and abutting on any street, alley, easement or right of way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the city, or within 300 feet of the system, is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable sewer facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, within 180 days after date of official notice to do so; provided, that said sewer is within 300 feet of the owner's property line. An exception to this policy may be granted by the City Council in extraordinary cases only.
(E) Proposed subdivisions. The owner of any proposed subdivision plat located within the sewer service area shall be required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable sewer facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, if the property, from the nearest property line of any kind, falls within the required hookup distance. The formula to be used for this specific requirement is to multiply the number of lots by 300 feet. That total number (in feet) is defined as the required hookup distance. The city requires that the owner of any proposed subdivision plat of lots within the required hookup distance of any lateral, interceptor or collection portion of the system shall connect to the system, the failure of which shall constitute a public offense and punishable by law as a Class B misdemeanor. If after having calculated the required hookup distance and the owner's nearest property line of any kind is outside of that required hookup distance from any lateral, interceptor or collection portion of the system, then the city shall waive this requirement.
(F) Extraterritorial jurisdiction. To evidence compliance with the requirements of this section, the city adopts this penalty and compensatory sanctions, the violation of which shall constitute a Class B misdemeanor. Under the authority of UCA § 10-8-15, as amended, the city hereby exercises a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to protect its culinary water system and its source from exposure to underground percolation from any ecological injury, pollution or contamination of the watershed or exposure of the system and water polluting underground percolation's influencing the culinary waterworks source. The city, under the authority of UCA § 10-8-38, as amended, declares that all lands in the sewer service area within 300 feet on either side of the transmission or interceptor lines and the inlet facilities of each and all of the collection, interception and inlet facilities or one or any combination of the same (the "system") are a part of the wastewater facilities of the city and the system, and the city hereby requires that the owner or occupant of any land upon which any structure is located and on the nearest property line of any kind within 300 feet of any lateral, interceptor or collection portion of the system shall connect to the system, the failure of which shall constitute a public offense and punishable by law as a Class B misdemeanor.
(Ord. 2010-003, passed 3-9-2010; Ord. 2010-003, passed 6-11-2019) Penalty, see §
50.99