(A) The owners 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, or is otherwise available (as the term “available” is defined in § 52.002) a public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after the date of the official notice to do so; provided that, the public sewer is within 100 feet (30-1/2 meters) of the property line. Unless a Commission policy provides otherwise, it shall be the responsibility of the developer/owner to install, construct, and maintain, at the developer's/owner's expense, any infrastructure (e.g., pump station), improvements, or extensions necessary to provide adequate sewer service for the property/subdivision so as to make use of the available public sewer, which infrastructure, improvement, and/or extension shall be installed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the requirements of the Commission.
(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 waste water where public sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in division (A) of this section, except as provided in §§ 52.030 through 52.032. It shall be unlawful to construct or install any privy, privy vault, septic tank, seepage lateral, cesspool, private sewage disposal system, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of waste water within the city, unless the Manager has, in writing, approved said construction or installation. The Commission may develop regulations governing the construction, installation, and maintenance of any privy, privy vault, seepage lateral, septic tank, cesspool, private disposal system, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of waste water within the city.
(1) 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 (as the term “available” is defined in § 52.002), of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies, 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.
(2) The existence of the facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, shower baths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product, and the like, 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 a menace to the public health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants unless such facilities are connected to the city sewage collection, treatment and disposal system.
(3) The Manager may prescribe the type and manner of connection to those facilities and may require that each connection to 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 waste water disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system in compliance with this chapter within 90 days after such line is placed into service or within 90 days of official notice to do so. Any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private waste water disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(Ord. 7-92, passed 2-4-1992; Am. Ord. 26-2010, passed 10-19-2010) Penalty, see § 52.999