(A) (1) Where required by the city, the owner of any property serviced by a sanitary sewer shall provide protection from an accidental discharge of prohibited materials or other substances regulated by this chapter. Where necessary, facilities to prevent accidental discharges of prohibited materials shall be provided and maintained at the owner’s expense. Detailed plans showing facilities and operating procedures to provide this protection shall be submitted to the city for review and approval prior to construction of the facility. Review and approval of the plans and operating procedures shall not relieve any user from the responsibility to modify the user’s facility as necessary to meet the requirements of this chapter.
(2) Users shall notify the city and the Commission immediately upon having a slug or accidental discharge of substances of wastewater in violation of this chapter to enable countermeasures to be taken by the city and the Commission to minimize damage to the wastewater treatment works. The notification will not relieve any user of any liability for any expense, loss or damage to the wastewater treatment system or treatment process, or for any fines imposed on the city on account thereof under any state and federal law. Employers shall insure that all employees who may cause or discover a discharge are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
(B) No person, having charge of any building or other premises which drains into the public sewer, shall permit any substance or matter which may form a deposit or obstruction to flow or pass into the public sewer. Within 15 days after receipt of written notice from the city, the owner shall install a suitable and sufficient catch basin or waste trap, or if one already exists, shall clean out, repair or alter the same and perform other work as the city may deem necessary. Upon the owner’s refusal or neglect to install a catch basin or waste trap or to clean out, repair or alter the same after the period of 15 days, the city may cause the work to be completed at the expense of the owner or representative thereof.
(C) Whenever any service connection becomes clogged, obstructed, broken or out of order or detrimental to the use of the public sewer, or unfit for the purpose of drainage, the owner shall repair or cause the work to be done as the city may direct. Each day after 15 days that a person neglects or fails to so act shall constitute a separate violation of this section, and the city may then cause the work to be done, and recover from the owner or agent the expense thereof by an action in the name of the city.
(`87 Code, § 403.04)