A. Superintendent: The sewer system of the city shall be under the immediate care, supervision and control of the superintendent of public works, who shall in this chapter be hereinafter referred to as the "superintendent". The superintendent shall have charge of all the equipment and appurtenances pertaining to the sewage system of the city. He shall have the direction of the laying of the sewer main and of putting service pipes, and the regulation and disposal of sewage, and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by law or ordinance or his contract of employment. He shall make reports to the city council as the city council shall by resolution provide and shall make such suggestions as the nature of the service may require.
B. Rules And Regulations: The mayor and the city council shall from time to time enact by resolution regulations prescribing connection charges and rates to be charged for the use of the sewer system, inspection and permit fees and procedures, rules for levying, billing, guaranteeing and collecting the charges for sewer service, rules governing the manner of making connections to the sewer system, materials to be used and such other rules and regulations for the management and control of sewage disposal as they shall deem fit.
C. Survey Conducted: The city council has caused a survey to be made of sanitary conditions within the city, including the geological aspects in relation to industrial, business and residential establishments as the same affect the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the city, and has determined and does hereby determine and require that it is necessary for the protection of the public health that owners of improved property within the city be required to connect their industrial, business and residential establishments to the sewer system and to cease to use all other methods of sewage disposal, if such establishments are capable of being served by and through the municipal sewer system.
D. Contracts: The city council is hereby authorized to make and enter into such contracts as may be necessary, convenient or proper with respect to the carriage and treatment of sewage for improved property outside the territorial limits of the city and with respect to the payment of property charges for such service, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, connection charges justly related to but not less than the charges hereinabove fixed; provided, that no such contract shall impair the ability of the city to carry and treat properly the sanitary sewage furnished within the territorial limits of the city. (Ord. 82-1, 2-22-1982)