(a) No person shall uncover or cause to be uncovered any public sewer, or part thereof, or public connection or branch thereof, in the City without the written permission of the City.
(b) No person shall throw or deposit, or cause or permit to be thrown or deposited, into any vessel or receptacle connection with a public sewer, any solid or viscous substances in such quantities or of such size as are capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of
the sewerage works, such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, cotton, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, ingrained garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders, or other similar substances, except the necessary water closet paper, urine, liquid house slops and, when properly trapped, cellar drainage.
(c) The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose situated within the City, and abutting any road, highway, street, alley or right of way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sewer of the City, is required, at his or her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities and to connect such facilities to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within fifteen days after the date of official notice to do so.
(d) No owner or occupant of any building or part thereof in which food is cooked or clothing is washed shall fail, after the notice provided for in subsection (c) hereof, to provide a suitable sink for the reception of wastewater. The sink shall be installed at the owner’s or occupant’s expense and be connected to the City sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within fifteen days after the date of official notice to do so. However, if the water closet is of a kind suitable to receive the waste water, the sink may be dispensed with.
(e) No person shall use or cause to be used any house drain for purposes other than those specified in this section.
(f) The City shall serve all necessary notices provided for in this section and shall supervise and direct the tapping of sewers in the City.
(g) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(h) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sanitary sewage, industrial waste or other polluted water, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter.
(i) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the City any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter and the City’s NPDES permit.
(Ord. 97-011. Passed 6-23-97.)