A. Use Required:
1. 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 said city, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
2. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of said city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
3. Except as hereafter 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.
4. The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes which require sanitary facilities, 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 a public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this chapter, within sixty (60) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within two hundred feet (200') of the building and reasonably accessible as determined by the superintendent.
B. Notice And Assessment:
1. Resolution And Notice To Owners: Whenever the city shall deem it necessary to construct sewer service connections from the public sewer to the curb line in the streets or alleys, a resolution shall be passed by the city requiring the property owners whose property has not been connected with the public sewer to construct such connecting sewer services from the public sewer to the curb line in the streets or alleys within the time specified not less then thirty (30) days from the passage of the resolution.
The resolution shall contain a notice to the owners stating what work is to be done and the time within which they are required to do it. Such notice may be general as to the owners but must be specified as to the descriptions of the lots or parcels of ground in front of which such connections are to be constructed.
2. Special Assessment For Connections: If such sewer service connections are not built, laid and constructed in the manner and within the time prescribed in said resolution, the city may order the same to be done by such person as it may contract with and under the direction of the superintendent at the expense of the lots and parcels of land adjoining in front of and for the benefit of which said sewer service connections have been laid, built and constructed. Such expense shall be assessed upon said lots and parcels of land so chargeable by the superintendent and returned by him to the city.
Payments therefor shall be due and payable from and after the filing of the assessment roll with the city and shall be collected as provided by law.
All steps taken for assessing of the property affected and collecting of such assessments and the selling of such property in default of payment of such assessment shall be done and performed in the same manner as other special assessments for local improvements are collected by the city. (Ord. 1759, 12-5-1994)