The purposes of this chapter are:
A. To provide for operation and maintenance of the city's sewer system in a reliable and serviceable condition;
B. To eliminate or minimize sanitary sewer overflows by eliminating or minimizing stoppages and reducing sources of inflow and infiltration into the city's sewer system;
C. To comply with applicable legal requirements pertaining to the city's sewer system;
D. To protect the public health and safety by establishing and providing a mechanism for enforcing performance standards for private sewer laterals that connect or are connected to a public sewer main; and
E. To comply with the goal of the city's Sewer System Management Plan which was adopted at the request of the State Water Resource Control Board, and to maintain all parts of the sewer system and reduce and prevent sanitary sewer overflows. (Ord. 2012-02 § 1 (part), 2012)