Notwithstanding the granting of an Interim or other Permit as provided in Section 12.20.060-12.20.080, Food Service Establishments found to have contributed to a sewer blockage, SSOs or any sewer system interferences resulting from the discharge of wastewater or waste containing FOG, shall be ordered to install and maintain a grease interceptor within one hundred eighty (180) days of the FOG Manager's order, and may be subject to a plan to abate the nuisance and prevent any future health hazards created by sewer line failures and blockages, SSOs or any other sewer system interferences. SSOs may cause injury to public health, safety, and welfare and threaten life and property and are hereby declared public nuisances. Furthermore, sewer lateral failures and SSOs caused by Food Service Establishments alone or collectively, are the responsibility of the private property owner or Food Service Establishment, and individual(s) as a responsible officer or owner of the Food Service Establishment. If the City must act immediately to contain and clean up an SSO caused by blockage of a private or public sewer lateral or system serving a Food Service Establishment, or at the request of the property owner or operator of the Food Service Establishment, or because of the failure of the property owner or Food Service Establishment to abate the condition causing immediate threat of injury to the health, safety, welfare, or property of the public, the City's costs for such abatement shall be entirely borne by the property owner or operator of the Food Service Establishment, and individual(s) as a responsible officer or owner of the Food Service Establishment(s) and shall constitute a debt to the City and become due and payable upon the City's demand for reimbursement of such costs. The owner or operator of any Food Service Establishment which has caused or contributed to a Sanitary Sewer Overflow shall immediately notify the County of Orange Health Department.
(Ord. 3051 § 1 (part), 2004).