(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, or in any area under its jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this section and the city’s NPDES/SDS Permit.
(C) Except as provided hereinafter, 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.
(D) The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is situated within the city and adjacent to 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, shall be required at the owner’s expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days of the date the public sewer is operational, provided the public sewer is within 200 feet of the structure generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official 30 day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make the connection.
(E) In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under subsection (D) of this section, the city may undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted property.
(Ord. 72, passed 3-3-1986)