(A) The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city service area 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 the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
(B) 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 wastewater where public sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in § 30.002, except as provided for in §§ 30.030 and 30.031. The existence within the city, wherever the services of the city sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and disposal facilities are available, or may hereafter be made available, of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privys, earthpits, cesspools, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage fields, private sewage disposal systems, or any other such facilities or works for the disposition of sanitary sewage wastes, other than the facilities of the city, is hereby declared to be a menace to the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of the city and is hereby determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance. The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, showerbaths, bathtubs, and commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product, etc., in or upon any improved property or premises in the city where the facilities of the city’s sewage collection, treatment and disposal system are available, or may hereafter be made available, is similarly declared to be menace to the public health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants unless such facilities are connected to the sewage collection, treatment and disposal system. The Superintendent may prescribe the type and manner of connection to the facilities and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized and qualified agent of the city.
(C) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system in compliance with this article, within ninety (90) days after the line is placed into service or within ninety (90) days of official notice to do so. Any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(Ord. 5-1996, passed 2-12-96)
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Cross reference:
Nuisances, see Ch. 50
Penalty for violation, see § 30.999