A. Connection Required: The owner or occupant of any house, building or property used for residential, commercial, industrial, governmental or recreational use, or other purpose, situated within the city which is abutting on or having a permanent right of access to any street, alley or right of way in which there is located a public sewer of the city is hereby required to cease using any other method of disposing of sewage, waste or polluted water, and at their expense to connect such building directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within fifteen (15) days after date of official notice from the city to do so; provided, however, that said sewer is within three hundred feet (300') of any property line of the building to be served or common property line in a multiple building development.
B. New Subdivisions: The developer of a new subdivision shall, at their expense, construct the necessary extensions of the public sewer system to provide public sewer facilities for each lot in said subdivision.
C. Prohibited Deposits: It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit 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.
D. Prohibited Discharge: 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 subsequent provisions of this chapter.
E. Privy, Septic Tank, Cesspool, Etc.: Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facilities intended or used for the disposal of sewage. (Ord. 383, 2-4-1988)
F. Sewer Use Exceptions:
1. Lots, parcels, or sites consisting of one acre or forty three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet or more; and if the closest property line is in excess of three hundred feet (300') from the sewer main, may construct a septic system with city, county and state approvals.
2. Lots, parcels, or sites consisting of less than one acre or less than forty three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet shall hook up to the city sewer system with no consideration to its location or distance from the sewer main. (Ord. 533, 7-8-2008)