§ 53.017 PRIVIES, PRIVY VAULTS, SEPTIC TANKS, CESSPOOLS.

   Except as provided hereinafter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.

(Ord. 408, passed 12-26-1989) Penalty, see § 53.999

§ 53.018 SERVICE CONNECTION REQUIRED.

   The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is situated within the city and adjacent to any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the city, shall be required at the owner(s) expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this code, within 30 days of the date the public sewer is operational, provided the public sewer is within 500 feet of the structure generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official 30-day notice shall be served instruction to the affected property owner to make the connection.

(Ord. 408, passed 12-26-1989)

§ 53.019 COMPLIANCE REQUIRED; CITY ACTION.

   In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under § 53.018, the city must undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefited property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the County Auditor and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 408, passed 12-26-1989)

PRIVATE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL

§ 53.030 PUBLIC SEWER NOT AVAILABLE.

   Where a public sewer is not available under the provisions of § 53.018, the building sewer shall be connected to a private wastewater disposal system complying with the provisions of this subchapter.

(Ord. 408, passed 12-26-1989)