§ 52.10 MANDATORY SEWER CONNECTIONS.
   (A)   The owner(s) of all 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 a public sanitary sewer of the city, is (are) hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
   (B)   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 sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in paragraph (A), except as provided for in §§ 52.20 - 52.21.
   (C)   At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system within sixty (60) days in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
   (D)   No unauthorized person(s) shall remove any sanitary sewer manhole covers in the city's sanitary sewer collection system unless written permission is first obtained from the General Superintendent or his designee. Any violation of the above provision shall be subject to any and all civil and criminal penalties as outlined under §§ 52.90 - 52.95 and the penalty provisions outlined in § 52.99.
(Ord. 14:1995, passed 5-25-95; Am. Ord. 5:96, passed 3-12-96)