(B) 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, as the term “available” is defined in § 52.003, of septic tanks, seepage laterals, privies, earthpits, 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.
(C) The existence of such facilities as toilets, sinks, wash basins, showerbaths, bathtubs, any commercial or industrial machinery, or devices producing a liquid waste product, and the like, in or upon any improved property or premises in the 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.
(D) The Manager may prescribe the type and manner of connection to these facilities, and may require that each connection be supervised and inspected by an authorized and qualified agent of the Municipal Utility Commission.
(E) 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.
(1995 Code, § 52.016) (Ord. passed 1- -1987) Penalty, see § 52.999