921.03 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED.

   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the City, or in any area under jurisdiction of the City any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable or dangerous waste.

   (b)   It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the City of Norwalk, or any area under the jurisdiction of, or served by the City, any sanitary wastewater, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter, excepting that nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to control wastes which are discharged pursuant to any NPDES permit issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, other than NPDES Permit No. 2PD00024*HD issued to the City of Norwalk.

   (c)   Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility, within or under the jurisdiction of the City of Norwalk, Ohio, intended or used for the disposal of wastewater, except in conformance with 921.04 of this chapter and written approval by the Service Director.

   (d)   The owner of all houses, building or structures used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the City of Norwalk and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future located a public sanitary sewer of the City of Norwalk, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within six months after date of official notice to do so, provided there is an accessible public sewer within 200 feet of the property line of aforesaid house, building or property.

   (e)   Private and semi-private sewer, as defined in Section 921.02 that are tributary or potentially tributary to the public sewer system of the City shall meet the design and construction standards applicable to the public sewers as constructed by the City. The City shall have sufficient access or right-of-way to private sewers for inspection, supervision, testing and enforcement of all health, sanitation, safety and sewer regulations.

(Ord. 91-110. Passed 10-1-91.)