(A) All owners, tenants, and occupants of dwellings, houses, apartments, hotels, motels, mobile homes, house trailers, mobile home parks, trailer camps, manufacturing or commercial establishments, or any other building of any kind or nature situated on a lot or lots, within the city limits, through which any sewage collection line has been or is hereafter installed, or which abuts upon any street, alley, or easement within the city limits in which there is hereafter installed a sewage collection line, or to which property a sewage collection line is extended, shall within 60 days following the date on which such sewage collection line is placed in operation, connect therewith all sanitary sewage drain pipes of such dwellings, houses, apartments, hotels, motels, mobile homes, house trailers, mobile home parks, trailer camps, manufacturing or commercial establishments, or other buildings, with the sanitary sewage collection line, conveying thereby all of the sewage therefrom into the sewer system; such connections to be made in accordance with such rules and regulations as the city may from time to time duly establish. The failure to make such connection is hereby declared unlawful and to constitute a public nuisance.
(B) Each owner, tenant, and occupant of similar property outside the city limits, who is connected to the city water system and receives water service from the city, shall, within 60 days following the date on which the city sends written notice to such party that a city sewage collection line is available to such property, connect such property to such sewage collection line in accordance with such rules and regulations; and the city shall cut off the water supply to any such owner, tenant, or occupant failing to make such connection.
(C) All architects, contractors, builders, or other persons, before commencing the erection of any building or other improvement capable of emitting liquid wastes or sewage, on any lot or parcel of land abutting on a street, alley, or easement in which there may be hereafter installed and maintained any such sewage collection line, or on any lot or parcel of land through which there may be hereafter installed a sewage collection line, or to which a sewage collection line is made available, shall before erecting or installing such building or improvement, exhibit to the City Council or to such official as the City Council may designate, satisfactory evidence that a means has been provided or will be provided for connecting the sanitary sewage drain pipes from such building or other improvement with such sewer collection line. No storm water or other surface or subsurface water drain shall be connected with any sanitary sewer line hereafter constructed, nor shall any storm water, surface, or subsurface water be otherwise introduced into any sanitary sewage collection line.
(Prior Code, § 51.05) (Ord. passed 10-6-1980) Penalty, see § 51.999
Cross-reference:
Private sewage disposal systems, see § 50.03