(A) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, 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 the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 30 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(B) (1) 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 where public sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in division (A) above, except as provided for in §§ 52.030 and 52.031 of this code.
(2) The existence within the city, wherever the services of the city sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal facilities are available or may hereafter be made available, of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies, earth pits, cesspools, sanitary waste vaults, sewage drainage fields, private sewage disposal systems or any other such facilities or works for the disposition of sanitary sewage wastes other than the facilities of the city, is hereby declared to be a menace to the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens and inhabitants of the city and is hereby determined and declared to constitute a public nuisance.
(3) The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, shower baths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery or device producing a liquid waste product and the like, in or upon any improved property or premises in said city where the facilities of the city’s sewage collection, treatment and disposal system are available or may hereafter be made available is similarly declared to be a menace to the public health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, unless such facilities are connected to the city sewage collection, treatment and disposal system. The Superintendent may prescribe the type and manner of connection to said facilities and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized and qualified agent of the city’s Sewer Department.
(C) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer system in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(Ord. 634, passed 3-5-2002) Penalty, see § 52.999