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No person or persons, firm or corporation shall establish or maintain a privy within twenty miles of the corporation line of the City and upstream from the water supply intake of the City unless the privy is provided with a vault constructed and maintained to prevent the material deposited therein from overflowing onto the surface of the ground. The owner, tenant or lessee of property on which such a vault is located shall have it cleaned at frequent intervals to avoid overflow and shall cause the material removed to be buried at a point not less than 300 feet from the river or any watercourse tributary thereto.
(Ord. 90-5835. Passed 8-14-90.)
USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED
No person, either as owner, agent, renter, lessee, or employee, shall build, construct, maintain or use on any lot, land or premises, within the City, any toilet, closet or privy the excrement from which is deposited in a vault, excavation or receptacle, which vault, excavation or receptacle is not connected with and flushed into a sanitary sewer, whenever such lots, lands or premises are capable of direct connection with any sanitary sewer. The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, 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 his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety days after the date of official notice to do so, provided such public sanitary sewer is within 200 feet of such house, building or property.
(Ord. 90-5835. Passed 8-14-90.)
(a) Every new residence, house, dwelling or other structure, whether single-family or multiple purpose, and every existing house, dwelling or other structure moved to a new location must have a separate sanitary service line connected directly from the dwelling, residence, house or other structure into the City sanitary sewer system. However, a waiver or other variance of this requirement may be granted by the Director on approval of the City Engineer, if constructed and installed in a manner the Engineer prescribes.
(b) The Director shall cause the appropriate inspection to be made to implement this chapter, deny and request to make a sewer connection not in conformity herewith and close any existing tap if additional houses, dwellings, residences or other structures are hereafter permitted to be joined into the existing tap.
(c) This requirement shall be in addition to the other laws governing the matter of City sewers.
(Ord. 90-5835. Passed 8-14-90.)
BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
No person shall perform sewer tapping work unless such person has first obtained from the City, a sewer tapping license or a plumbing license, if a method of obtaining such licenses has been provided for elsewhere by City ordinance.
(Ord. 90-5835. Passed 8-14-90.)
No person shall perform sewer tapping work unless the person has first obtained a permit from the Chief Building Inspector. Work for which a permit has been obtained must be commenced within six months or the permit shall become null and void. A cessation of more than one month in work which has been started shall also void the permit. Provided however a new permit will not be issued when it has been determined by the Mayor and/or the Director of Water/Sewer Operations that there does not exist sufficient capacity in the Sewage Disposal System including collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastes as may be discharged by the applicant of such new permit.
(Ord. 90-5835. Passed 8-14-90.)
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