(A) Except as provided hereinafter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, private vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage. It is further unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city or in any area under its jurisdiction any human or animal excrement, sewage, garbage or other objectionable material or waste.
(B) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which sewage is discharged shall be required at the owner’s expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 90 construction working days of the date of notice to the owner; provided that, the Council may waive the requirements herein if the public sewer is located more than 200 feet from the property line and a private wastewater disposal system is connected and meets all requirements of § 53.03 of this chapter. All future buildings constructed 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 instructing the affected property owner to make the connection and no occupancy of the building shall be permitted until the connection is made.
(C) In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under division (B) above, the city may undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted 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.
(Prior Code, § 3.21) Penalty, see § 10.99