§ 50.036 CONNECTION REQUIRED; PERMIT REQUIRED FOR CONNECTION; CONNECTION CHARGES.
   (A)   The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose, situated in the city 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 property 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 chapter within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewers are within 50 feet of the property line.
   (B)   No connection shall be made to the public sanitary sewer, or until written permission of the Safety and Service Director or designee has been obtained by the person, firm, or corporation employed to perform the work. An application for a permit shall be signed by the owner, agent, or lessee of the property for which the connection is to be made and by the person, firm, or corporation employed to perform the work, and must describe the property where the work is to be performed and state the fixtures to be connected.
   (C)   The city shall not furnish sewer to any building and/or property not now being furnished with sewer unless the building and/or property is entirely within the corporation of the city. Additionally, the city shall not furnish sewer service to a building and/or property that doesn't currently have a city water service.
   (D)   No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated specifically on the permit, and any misrepresentation by the owner, his or her authorized representative, or the sewer tapper, if the misrepresentation appears to be intentional, shall be deemed sufficient cause for the revocation of the permit. The permit must be kept on the job at all times while work is in progress.
   (E)   No permit for the purpose described in division (A) of this section shall be issued by the Safety and Service Director until the applicant shall have paid a tap-in charge, which charge shall be the sum of the several charges and adjustments, as applicable, set forth in divisions (F) through (I) of this section.
   (F)   For the purpose of reimbursing the city for reasonable administrative and inspection costs related to the making of connections to the public sanitary sewer, the owner, agent, or lessee of the property for which the connection is to be made shall pay a charge of $30 when the sewer permit is obtained.
   (G)   In addition to the charge set forth in division (F) of this section, the owner, agent, or lessee of property described by any of the following categories shall, when the sewer permit is obtained, also pay a charge for the property for which the connection is to be made equal to the sum of the several charges and adjustments, as applicable, set forth in divisions (H) and (I) of this section:
      (1)   Any property within an area that has been annexed to the city after May 5, 1975, as amended by Res. 1975-12, duly adopted August 4, 1975;
      (2)   Any property that for any reason was not assessed, or is not to be assessed, under any assessment proceedings duly commenced by the City Council, pursuant to R.C. Chapters 727 or 729; and
      (3)   Any property that for any reason has been assessed, or is to be assessed, under any assessment proceedings duly commenced by the City Council, pursuant to R.C. Chapters 727 or 729, but which property was not, or is not to be, completely served by sanitary sewer service under the assessment proceedings and which property therefore was not, or is not to be, assessed at the same rate as those properties that were, or are to be, fully served thereby.
   (H)   (1)   Industrial, commercial, multi-family, or other similar structures shall pay a charge according to the following schedule.
      (2)   For any use not shown below, the number of use benefits shall be determined by the Safety and Service Director by the use of accepted engineering practice and on the basis of anticipated flow from the applicant when compared to a single-family residence where the flow of 400 gallons per day per residence will be considered as one use benefit.
Use
Use Benefit
Use
Use Benefit
Assembly halls, churches, auditoriums
   Up to 200 seats
$1,600
   Each additional 20 or fraction
$800
Bar, tavern, restaurant
   First 30 seats
$1,600
   Each additional 20 or fraction
$1,200
Car wash
   First bay
$4,800
   Each additional bay
$1,600
Factories, industrial plants
   For each 20 employees
$1,600
Hospitals, nursing homes, handicapped homes
   For each 3 beds
$1,600
Hotels or motels
   For each 5 rooms
$1,600
Laundries
   Coin-operated, per machine
$800
Multiple-family dwellings
   1 bedroom
$1,200
   2 bedroom
$1,400
   3 bedroom
$1,600
Offices
   Minimum 10 employees or less
$1,600
   Each additional 10 or fraction
$1,600
Retail merchant
   Minimum 10 employees or less
$1,600
   Each additional 10 or fraction
$1,600
Schools
   Elementary per 25 pupils
$1,600
   Jr. high or high school per 20 pupils
$1,600
Service stations
   First bay
$4,800
   Each additional bay
$1,600
Shopping centers without food service or laundries per 3,500 sq. ft.
$1,600
Other uses
Consult the Safety and Service Director
 
   (I)   The tap-in charges shall be paid in cash or by certified check payable to the city, at the time of filing an application for a permit.
   (J)   In the event the Safety and Service Director shall ascertain that any property has been connected into the public sanitary sewer in violation of the provisions in this section, the Safety and Service Director is authorized to disconnect the property, or cause the property to be disconnected, until the violation shall cease. The provisions of this division (I) are in addition to the penalties set forth in § 50.999.
(1982 Code, § 50.21) (Ord. 1941-17, passed 6-2-1941; Ord. 1973-21, passed 7-2-1973; Ord. 1975-21, passed 11-11-1975; Ord. 1979-8, passed 6-4-1979; Ord. 1984-39, passed 11-5-1984; Ord. 1989-12, passed 6-5-1989; Ord. 2002-14, passed 12-2-2002; Ord. 2013-2, passed 2-11-2013; Res. 22-12, passed 4-14-2022) Penalty, see § 50.999