(a) No storm water, roof water leader or sub-soil drain shall at any time be led into or connected with the separate, or sanitary system of sewer, or led into or connected with any soil pipe or house or other building drain, or house or other building sewer tributary to the separate or sanitary system of sewers.
(Ord. 17-64. Passed 6-1-64.)
(b) For every dwelling house and commercial building in the City, located on a lot which abuts a street improved with curbs and gutters, or which has access to a public storm sewer located in the abutting street or in an easement traversing or abutting such a lot, all roof water shall be carried from downspouts to the street gutter or storm sewer, as the case may be, (except as provided in Section 1331.09
(h)(1)) through a pipe approved by the Director of Building and Zoning Department. Such pipe shall be sealed and laid to a proper grade and buried underground to its discharge to the street gutter or storm sewer.
(Ord. 2012-30. Passed 10-15-12.)
(c) Whoever, being the owner, agent, occupant or the holder of any interest in real estate or building thereon which connects, causes to be connected, or permits the connection of any drain downspout or any other conveyor of storm water, roof water, surface water, or sub-soil water drain, to be made with the sanitary sewer system or any tributary of such sanitary sewage system shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined as provided in Section 935.99.
(d) Whoever, permits or continues to permit the connection of such storm, roof, or surface drains to a sanitary sewer line after notice by the Director of Building and Zoning to remove such connection, within not more than thirty days fails to comply with the order to discontinue or disconnect such connection, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor subject to the penalty as provided in Section 935.99.
(e) No contractor, builder or person, whether owner thereof or employer, shall upon erection of any building connect any sub-soil drain with any line, pipe or conductor of sanitary sewage from said building into the sanitary sewer system of the City.
(f) The Director of Building and Zoning is hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of this section and for such purpose and for the purposes of determining whether or not roof water, drains or other surface water or sub-soil drains are connected with any sanitary sewer line is hereby authorized after reasonable notice to the owner or occupant of any premise or building within the City to make such investigation and issue such orders necessary for a full and complete investigation of the matters herein; and for the purposes of the section such Director of Building and Zoning may employ the services of any other department or employer within the City or may employ such other persons, firms, corporations or associations as may be necessary to adequately investigate or enforce the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 17-64. Passed 6-1-64; Ord. 92-33. Passed 12-7-92.)
(g) The Director of Building and Zoning upon finding such connection made to the sanitary sewer system of this City is hereby authorized to forthwith disconnect such roof drains or downspouts, properly plug such lines at the first solid joint below ground level and close with cement mortar.
(1) All cost incurred by the City in the removing or disconnecting any unauthorized or illegal connection to the City's sanitary sewer system shall be charged to the property owner from whose property such illegal attachment or connection to the sanitary sewer system of the City is removed.
(2) The Director of Building and Zoning, upon completion of the work provided for herein shall cause a statement for all cost in connection therewith to be forwarded to the owner of the property by mail, at the address provided for the mailing of tax bills to the property owner.
(3) If such costs are not paid within thirty days from the date of mailing the Director of Building and Zoning shall certify such cost to the Clerk of Council for ordinance authorizing the same to be listed on the tax duplicate of that parcel of property and collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected.
(Ord. 17-68. Passed 6-3-68; Ord. 92-33. Passed 12-7-92.)