(A) The owner of all the 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 located available public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at his or her expense to install a suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 120 days after date upon which the City Council certifies that said sanitary sewers are completed and ready for use, provided that said public sewer available as defined below.
(B) AVAILABLE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER shall mean sanitary sewer within 200 feet of any property line describing the lot or tract in question, which discharge into the city treatment facility; provided, however that where a sanitary sewer lies within 200 feet of any property line describing the lot or tract in question but the building to be served lies more than 200 feet from the sanitary sewer, then such sanitary sewer shall not be considered an available sanitary sewer within the meaning of this section if the City Council determines by resolution that all the following conditions have been met:
(1) The building will be connected to an alternative sewage disposal system which is constructed and operated in accordance with regulations adopted from time to time by the County Health Department;
(2) The proposed alternative sewage disposal system will not in the opinion of the City Engineer adversely affect public health; and
(3) The estimated cost of attaching the building to be served to the closet sanitary sewer exceeds the cost of an alternative sewage disposal system by a factor of two.
(Prior Code, § 18-7-2)