(a) Deposits Prohibited. No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area within the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) Discharge to Natural Outlet Prohibited. No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or within any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with Federal, State and City regulations.
(c) Connection Required; Costs.
(1) Every building within the City shall be separately and individually connected by a separate building storm sewer lateral to a public storm sewer where there is such storm sewer adjoining the lot or parcel of land on which such building stands. Any and all costs for the initial installation and replacement where replacement is necessary due to an increase in storm sewer demand resulting from a change in the nature of the use of the structure within the boundaries of the private premises of individual property owners in the City shall be paid for by the owner of the property being served by the storm sewer laterals. The owner of the property shall maintain, repair and replace where necessary due to poor condition of the lateral that portion of the storm sewer lateral located within the public right of way and on private property from the City main to the building being served by the lateral. Where storm sewer laterals are a part of a street reconstruction project, the City shall repair and/or replace where necessary that portion of the storm sewer laterals located within the public right of way.
(2) Every building in existence prior to the construction of a public storm sewer adjacent to the lot or parcel of land on which the building stands shall, upon the construction of such adjacent storm sewer, be connected to such storm sewer within six months of the time such storm sewer is so constructed and made available for use.
(3) The Service Director shall cause written notice to be given to the owner of each lot or parcel of land to which such connections required herein are to be made. The notice shall state the number and character of connections required. The notice under this section shall be by certified mail addressed to such owner at his last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent. The returned receipt for notice given by certified mail accepted by the addressee or anyone purporting to act for him shall be prima facie evidence of the service of notice required under this section. If it appears by the return of the certified mail notice that the owner cannot be found, such owner shall be served by publication of the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation within the City.
(4) When such connections to the public storm sewer are not installed by the owner of the property within thirty days from the date of service of such notice, the work may be done by the City and the cost thereof together with a forfeiture of twenty five percent (25%) of the cost thereof, assessed against the lots and lands for which such storm sewer connections are made.
(5) This section shall be supplemental to and not in derogation of existing ordinances relative to storm sewer connections required for any building within the City.
(d) Buildings shall be connected to the public sewers only through a service from the main in the street or dedicated utility right-of-way on which the lot has frontage, except that when there is no main in the street or dedicated utility right-of-way and a proper connection can be made elsewhere on adjoining property, the owner of the lot may, after obtaining a recorded easement from the owner of a lot on an adjoining street or dedicated utility right-of-way, obtain a connection to the public sewer through said easement from the adjoining street or dedicated utility right-of-way. The owner of the lot to be served through the easement shall furnish a copy of the recorded easement to the Department of Public Service. When the main is laid in the street or dedicated right-of-way on which the lot has frontage, the owner shall install a standard service from the new main or dedicated utility right-of-way and disconnect the service from the main in the adjoining street or dedicated utility right-of-way.
(e) Storm Sewers Under Control of City. All storm sewers of any kind within the lines of any street or other public ground, or any storm sewer constructed by the City shall be under the control of the City. (Ord. 2017-17. Passed 3-15-17.)