(A) The owner of all the houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located any public sanitary (or combined) sewer of the city, is required at his or her expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet (30 meters) of the property line.
(B) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property owner (within 100 feet of the property line) served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public system within 90 days after date of official notice to do so and in compliance with this chapter. Any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(C) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater where public sewer service is available, as defined in division (D), except as provided for in “Private Sewage Disposal”, § 52.16.
(D) 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 city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(E) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 88-57, passed 12-27-1988; Am. Ord. 2008-09, passed 4-29-2008) Penalty, see § 52.99