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GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 53.001 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in parts per million by weight.
   BUILDING OR HOUSE DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of any building or house and conveys it to the building or house sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building or house wall.
   BUILDING OR HOUSE SEWER. The part of a house or building drainage system extending from the house or building drain to its connection with the public main sewer or other place of disposal.
   GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation of cooking and dispensing of food and produce.
   INSPECTOR. Any person duly authorized by the Chairperson and Board of Trustees to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
   LOCAL VENTILATING PIPE. Any pipe through which foul air is removed from a room or fixture.
   MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
   PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
   pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
   PLUMBING FIXTURES. Receptacles intended to receive and discharge water liquid or water-carried wastes into the sewer system with which they are connected.
   PROPERLY SHREDDED. Shredding to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle larger than one-half inch in diameter.
   PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by the municipality.
   SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
   SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
   SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
   SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
   SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
   SOIL PIPE. Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closets with or without the discharge from other fixtures to the house or building drain.
   STORM SEWER. A sewer which carries storm and surface drainage but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
   SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in immersion in water, sewage or other liquids, and are removable by filtering.
   TRAP. A fitting or device so constructed as to prevent the passage of air or gas through a pipe without materially affecting the flow of sewage or waste through it.
   TRAP SEAL. The vertical distance between the crown weir and the dip of the trap.
   VENT PIPE. Any pipe provided to ventilate a house or building drainage system and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
   WASTE PIPE. Any pipe which receives the discharge of any fixture, except water closets, and conveys the same to the house drain, soil pipe or waste stack.
(Prior Code, § 3-202)
§ 53.002 OPERATION AND FUNDING.
   The municipality owns and operates the municipal sewer system. The governing body, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the management and maintenance of the municipal sewer system, may each year levy a tax not exceeding the maximum limit prescribed by state law on the actual valuation of all real estate and personal property within the corporate limits that is subject to taxation. The revenue from said tax shall be known as the Sewer Maintenance Fund. The Board of Trustees may adopt rules and regulations for the sanitary and efficient management of the sewer system.
(Prior Code, § 3-201)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-574 and 17-925.01
§ 53.003 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT.
   (A)   To connect with the sewer system, the owner or occupant of the premises shall make an application therefor to the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. Sewer service shall not be supplied to any person outside the corporate limits without special permission from the governing body; provided, that the entire cost of pipe and other installation charges shall be paid by such consumers. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the municipality to provide sewer service to nonresidents.
   (B)   (1)   Applications for sewer service shall be filed with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer upon a form to be supplied by the municipality. The application shall state the name of the applicant and the premises to serve. All applications filed after April 30, 1982 shall be accompanied by a connection charge, payable to the village, in an amount set by the governing body and on file with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. The owner of the premises served and the occupant thereof shall be jointly and severally liable for the sewer service provided to said premises.
      (2)   The applicant shall also pay a deposit in the amount set by the governing body and on file with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer. Upon disconnection of the sewer service, any balance of such deposit shall be returned to the applicant without interest.
(Prior Code, § 3-203)
Statutory reference:
   See Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-508
§ 53.004 SEWER CONTRACT.
   The municipality shall furnish sewer services to persons within its corporate limits whose premises abut a street or alley in which a commercial main is now or may hereafter be laid. The rules, regulations and sewer rental rates shall be considered a part of every application hereafter made for sewer service and shall be considered a part of the contract between every customer now or hereafter served. Without further formality, the making of the application on the part of any applicant or the use of sewer service by present customers thereof shall constitute a contract between the customer and the municipality to which said contract both parties are bound. The municipality may also furnish sewer service to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate limits of the municipality, as and when, according to law, the governing body may see fit to do so.
(Prior Code, § 3-204)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-901, 17-902 and 18-503
§ 53.005 SERVICE CONTRACTS.
   Contracts for sewer service are not transferable. Any person wishing to change from one location to another shall make a new application. If any customer shall move from the premises where service is furnished, or if said premises is destroyed by fire or other casualty, he or she shall at once inform the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer who shall cause the sewer service to be shut off from said premises. If the customer should fail to give notice, he or she shall be charged for that period of time until the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer is otherwise advised of such circumstances.
(Prior Code, § 3-205)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-901, 17-902 and 18-503
§ 53.006 CLASSIFICATION.
   For the purpose of rental fees, the governing body may classify the customers of the Municipal Sewer Department; provided, that such classifications are reasonable and do not discriminate unlawfully against any consumer or group of consumers.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-925.02) (Prior Code, § 3-208)
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