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Persons owning property outside the corporate limits of the City may connect sanitary sewers to sanitary sewers within the limits of the City, by proceeding in the manner set forth in this chapter and complying with the rules and regulations of the Director of Public Service.
(1941 Code, Sec. 17-18.)
Each owner or occupant of a building on a private lot or land abutting a sanitary sewer shall make, maintain and use a connection with the public sanitary sewer, or shall make a connection to a sanitary sewer as soon as such sewer is made accessible. If a sanitary sewer is accessible, or as soon as such sewer is made accessible, any privy vault, cesspool or other receptacle for sewage or excreta within a distance of 500 feet shall be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected, filled with suitable filling material and abandoned.
(Ord. 4871. Passed 11-6-58.)
(a) No person shall connect any downspout of any building, any subsoil drain or the waste drain of any hydrant or water plug, either directly or indirectly, to any sanitary sewer, or permit any storm water to be in any manner discharged into such sewer.
(b) No person shall connect any open gutter, cesspool or privy vault with any Municipal sanitary sewer or with any private sewer which is or shall be connected to such Municipal sanitary sewer.
(Ord. 6490. Passed 4-18-74.)
(c) The Service Director and other duly authorized employees of the City, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter any and all properties and buildings, public and private, at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice, for the limited purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing sewer connections and any appurtenances for violations of the sewer rules and regulations.
(Ord. 2017-10. Passed 9-6-17.)
(a) Whoever violates any provision of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
(Ord. 4871. Passed 11-6-58.)
(b) Whoever violates any provision of Section 925.10 or fails to comply with any requirement thereof or who assists in such violation or noncompliance shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 6490. Passed 4-18-74.)