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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
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)
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
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)
Prior to commencement of construction of a private wastewater disposal system, the owner(s) shall first obtain a written permit signed by the city. The application for the permit shall be made on a form furnished by the city, which the applicant shall supplement by any plans, specifications and other information as are deemed necessary to the city.
(Ord. 408, passed 12-26-1989)
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