(A) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the City, is hereby required at the owners expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the POTW, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety (QO) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said POTW is within 100 feet (30.5 meters)of the property line.
(B) 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 where POTW service is available, as defined in division (A) of this section, except as provided for in “Private Sewage Disposal” (§ 54.017). The existence within the city, wherever the services of the POTW are available or may hereafter be made available (as the term “available” is hereinbefore defined), of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privys, earthpits, cesspools, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage fields, private sewage disposal systems, or any other such facilities or works for the disposition of sanitary sewage wastes, other than the POTW, is hereby 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. The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, showerbaths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product, and th like, in or upon any improved property or premises in the city where POTW facilities are available, or may hereafter be made available, is similarly declared to be a menace to the public health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants unless such facilities are connected to the POTW. The Superintendent may prescribe the type and manner of connection to said facilities and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized and qualified agent of the city.
(C) At such time as the POTW becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the POTW in compliance with this chapter within 90 days after such line is placed into service or within 90 days of official notice to do so. Any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(Ord. 2017-72.01d, passed 2-27-17)