(A) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes (hereinafter, collectively, “buildings”), situated within Jessamine County and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or sanitary sewer easement in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the Jessamine-South Elkhorn Water District (hereinafter JSEWD), is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities and wastewater disposal facilities therein, and to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 180 days after the date of official notice to do so from the JSEWD, provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet of the owner’s property line. In the event the public sewer is within 100 feet of the owner’s property line and the necessary easement for a lateral extension therefrom does not otherwise exist, and in the further event the installing property owner, after exercising reasonable efforts, is unable to obtain such easement right by agreement, then the JSEWD shall obtain the necessary easement for the lateral. In the further event of a determination of a health hazard by the Jessamine County Health Officer, connection to the public sanitary sewer may be directed by JSEWD where technically feasible notwithstanding the location of the sewer in relation to the property. Every owner and/or user of the public sanitary sewer shall timely pay their monthly bill as indicated on the monthly billing.
(C) At the time that a public sanitary sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public system within 180 days after date of official notice to do so from JSEWD in compliance with this chapter.
(D) Farmsteads, as presently defined by KRS 211.015(1)(b), are exempted from compliance with the provisions of this chapter. However, in the event of a determination of a health hazard by the Jessamine County Health Officer, connection to the public sanitary sewer may be directed by JSEWD where technically feasible notwithstanding whether or not the property is a farmstead.
(Ord. passed 10-4-2005; Am. Ord. passed 8-3-2010) Penalty, see § 51.99