(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner, on public or private property within the city, any sewage.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet or stream within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage or other wastes except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(C) 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 sewage, except as provided in this chapter and approved by the city, or as approved by the State Department of Environmental Quality or its agent, the County Sanitarian.
(D) Except as stated in division (F) below, the owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the city and abutting or within 300 feet of any street, alley, right-of-way, or easement, in which there is now located or may in the future be located a community sewer belonging to the city, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable facilities therein, including an interceptor tank as specified by the Sanitation Manager, and arrange for connection of the facilities directly to the community sewer system. The connection shall be made under the direction of the Sanitation Manager within 90 days after official notice to do so.
(E) The Sanitation Manager shall establish, by written policy, the materials, including interceptor tank and effluent sewer piping, to be used in the installation, construction, and connection of all new facilities, and shall establish leakage allowances for both interceptor tanks and effluent sewers using a standard exfiltration test.
(F) (1) During the initial construction phase of the sand-filter sewer system, the city shall install all interceptor tanks and sewer lines from the interceptor tank to the community sewer system, and from the interceptor tank to within five feet of the structure to be serviced.
(G) Within one year of construction completion, owners shall, at their expense, abandon and fill all existing on-site septic tanks not connected to the community sewer system in accordance with the regulations of the State Department of Environmental Quality.
(Prior Code, § 50.03) (Ord. 420, passed 10-5-1987; Ord. 492, passed 4-9-2001; Ord. 502-B, passed 1-21-2003) Penalty, see § 51.99