§ 54.01 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED.
   (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 jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under city jurisdiction, any waste water or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with 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 waste water.
   (D)   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 that part of 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 owner(s)’ expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so.
   (E)   In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under division (D) of this section, the city may undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted property. The assessment shall be a lien against the property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council, shall be certified to the county’s Auditor and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 201, passed 12-7-1988) Penalty, see § 54.99