(a) No person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable or dangerous waste.
(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or any area under the jurisdiction of, or served by the City, any sanitary sewage, 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 Agency, other than NPDES Permit No. A710 issued to the City.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility, within or under the jurisdiction of the City, intended or used for the disposal of sewage, except in conformance with Section 925.10, and the requirements imposed by the Mansfield-Richland County Health Board.
(d) The owner of all houses, building or structures used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, 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 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 ninety days after date of official notice to do so, provided there is a public sewer within 100 feet of the property line of aforesaid house, building or property.
(e) Private and semi-private sewers, as defined in Section 925.03, that are tributary or potentially tributary to the public sewer system of the City shall meet the design and construction standards applicable to public sewers as constructed by the City. The City shall have sufficient access or right of way to private and semi-private sewers for inspection, supervision, testing and enforcement of all health, sanitary, safety and sewer regulations.
(f) Those premises not complying with this section by failing, refusing or neglecting to connect into the City Sanitary Sewerage System within the time prescribed therein shall be conclusively presumed to discharge a constant volume of not less than 1900 cubic feet of sewage into the City sanitary sewerage system each quarter year in the event the premises is unmetered and be charged a rate as prescribed by this chapter. If such premises are metered, then they are charged accordingly.
(Ord. 80-24. Passed 3-20-80.)