(Amended In Entirety by Ord. No. 173,980, Eff. 7/1/01.)
(a) Industrial Wastewater. For purposes of this section “industrial wastewater” shall mean all water carried wastes and wastewater of the community excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and shall include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural, or other operation where the wastewater discharged includes significant quantities of wastes of nonhuman origin.
(b) Dischargers in the City whose Wastewater is Treated by CSDLA. Dischargers of industrial wastewater whose wastewater is treated and disposed of in wastewater treatment facilities owned and operated by the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, and who are in the City of Los Angeles but not in a County Sanitation District shall comply with all ordinances and regulations of said districts which would be applicable to such dischargers if they had been in a district.
(c) Fees and Charges. Such dischargers shall pay, to the districts, charges equivalent to those imposed by the districts pursuant to the Districts’ Industrial Wastewater Treatment Surcharge as if the discharge were within a district using the same sewer system.
(d) Districts Responsibilities. The district shall have the responsibility to bill and serve all such charges. It shall have the right to sue and collect in its own name any such charges that may be delinquent.