A. 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 the City any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste or other material detrimental to health and safety or prohibited by subsections 7–5–5A through E of this Chapter.
B. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Chapter.
C. 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 sewage.
D. The owner 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 or combined sewer of the City is hereby required, at his/her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, within ninety (90) days after the date of official notice to do so; provided, that said public sewer is within three hundred feet (300') of the property line.
E. No unauthorized person shall maliciously, wilfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the Municipal sewage works.
F. The City shall not be liable for damage to any sewer user by reason of a stoppage or other interruption of his/her water supply or sewer disposal service caused by scarcity of water, accidents to the sewage works, alterations, additions or repairs to the sewer system or from other unavoidable causes beyond the control of the City or those which could be avoided had appropriate check valve apparatus been installed by the sewer users.
G. The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
H. Any person found to be violating any provision of this Chapter, except Section 7–5–5, shall be served by the City with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall become liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the City by reason of such violation. (Ord. 395, 9-6-83; 1994 Code)