§ 55.005 LEGAL AUTHORITY.

   The Board and the utility have the legal authority to:

   (A)   Develop and enforce specific limits on prohibited substances;

   (B)   Enter the premises of any industrial user to conduct inspections, surveillance, record review and/or monitoring, as necessary to determine compliance with the sewer use ordinance and, if applicable, any effective industrial wastewater pretreatment permit;

   (C)   Accept or deny any new or increase discharges from any indirect discharger;

   (D)   Immediately halt or prevent any discharge of pollutants to the sewage works which reasonably appears to present an imminent endangerment to the health or welfare of the public, the environment, and/or which threatens to interfere with the operation of the POTW;

   (E)   Require compliance with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements by indirect discharges;

   (F)   Impose fees, if necessary to offset the cost incurred by the permittee for administering the pretreatment program requirements established in this chapter; and

   (G)   Impose fines in accordance with §§ 55.100 through 55.199.

(Ord. 2017-06, passed 6-12-2017)