(A) It shall be unlawful to discharge into any natural outlet within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any wastewater or other polluted waters.
(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 without first obtaining the required permits from the city.
(C) No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
(D) It shall be unlawful to discharge into the building sanitary sewer the surface water which collects in basement of foundation excavations. If the building sanitary sewer is complete before the plumbing can be connected thereto, the builder or sewer tape shall keep the end of the building sanitary sewer tightly closed with a plumber’s plug or other water-tight plug.
(E) 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 any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the rules and regulations within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, provided the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other wastes originated is less than 50 feet from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located.
(F) No person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted to connect to or discharge wastewater to the sewage system unless it has been determined by the city that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey, and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person, firm, or corporation.
(G) All new or replacement sewers that are now connected to or that will be connected to the city sewage collection system and thereby discharging to the wastewater treatment plant shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications designated by the city standards.
(1982 Code, § 50.321) (Ord. 2004-20, passed 7-12-2004; Ord. 2013-2, passed 2-11-2013) Penalty, see § 50.999