(a) 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 of Newton Falls, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) 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.
(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 sewage.
(d) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the City and abutting on any alley, street or right of way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the City, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable sanitary facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within ninety days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within one hundred feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
(e) Where public sanitary or combined sewers are not available or existing sewers may be inadequate, and the City Manager has determined health hazards may exist or a nuisance does exist due to malodorous or deleterious discharges to water courses, the City Manager shall proceed with preliminary studies, giving consideration to:
(1) Present and future sewer needs;
(2) Area that should be included;
(3) Economic feasibility and methods of financing;
(4) Petitions by property owners;
(5) Need for additional treatment facilities and pumping stations;
(6) Condition of existing sewers;
(7) Condition of existing private disposal system.
(f) All industrial customers must have a pretreatment plan approved by the City and the Ohio EPA, prior to discharging into the City Sanitary System.
(Ord. 90-05. Passed 2-20-90.)