(A) Unlawful deposits. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the district or in any area under the jurisdiction of the district, any human excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) Discharge to natural outlets. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet, within the district, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the district, any sewage or other priority pollutants or hazardous chemicals as defined by EPA, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this subchapter.
(C) Use of septic tanks, cesspools and the like. Except as provided in this section, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for disposal of sewage.
(D) Connection required where public sewers available.
(1) The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the district and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the district, is hereby required at his or her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, provided the public sewer is available as hereinafter defined, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so from the district or other authorized agent. The precise time for compliance shall be determined by the district depending upon the particular facts involved, it being understood the prescribed time limit should be reasonable and practicable.
(2) After 90 days from the date that the notice to connect is issued, billing for sewer service will commence.
(E) Available defined.
(1) The term AVAILABLE as used in connection with this subchapter means a public sewer within 200 feet of the building to be served; whereupon it shall become the duty of the owner of such property to connect the premises to the sewage collection facility. This distance will be measured in a direct line from the sewer tap to the customer’s building.
(2) If a pump is necessary to convey sewage from the customer’s building (or portion of the building), the provisions of the Kentucky Plumbing Code will apply.
(F) Septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies and the like declared public nuisance. The existence within the district, wherever the services of the district sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal facilities are available, or may hereafter be made available, as the term AVAILABLE is defined in division (E) of this section, of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies, earthpits, cesspools, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage field, private sewage disposal systems, or any other such facilities or works for the disposition of sanitary sewage wastes other than the facilities of the district, except where suitable treatment has been provided for in accordance with subsequent provisions of this subchapter, is hereby declared to be a menace to the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of the district, and is hereby determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance. The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, shower baths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product, and the like, in or upon any improved property or premises in the district where the facilities of the district’s sewage collection, treatment, and disposal system are available, or may hereafter be made available, is similarly declared to be a menace to the public health and general welfare of the district and its inhabitants, unless such facilities are connected to the district sewage collection, treatment and disposal system. Each connection shall be supervised, inspected and approved by an authorized and qualified agent of the district.
(G) Approval for private sewage treatment systems. Notwithstanding division (F) of this section, any person required in this section to use the public sewers may maintain and use a private sewage treatment and/or disposal system with the written approval of the district.
(Ord. 01-07.28.16, passed 7-28-2016) Penalty, see § 52.99