Section
General Provisions
52.01 Definitions
52.02 Operation and funding
52.03 Licensed plumber
52.04 Complaints
Service Connection and Maintenance
52.15 Mandatory hookup
52.16 Application for permit
52.17 Sewer contract
52.18 Direct connections
52.19 Plumber’s liability
52.20 Service contracts
52.21 Installation procedure
52.22 Installation expense
52.23 Old house sewers
52.24 Repairs and maintenance
52.25 Service to nonresidents
52.26 Inspections
Fees, Billing and Payment
52.40 Classification
52.41 Rate setting
Discharge Requirements
52.55 Unlawful use
52.56 Interceptors or other special equipment
52.57 Discharge of certain waters into sanitary sewer system prohibited
52.99 Penalty
Cross-reference:
Fee schedule, see Chapter 37
Utility services, see § 50.06
GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN or HOUSE DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a house or building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of any building or house.
BUILDING SEWER or HOUSE SEWER. The part of a house or building drainage system extending from the house or building drain to its connection with the main sewer.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities for the collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(Prior Code, § 6-301)
(A) The city owns the sewer system and operates the same through the Utilities Superintendent. The City Council, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the management and maintenance of the 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.
(B) The Utilities Superintendent shall have direct management and control of the Sewer Department and shall faithfully carry out the duties of his or her office. The Utilities Superintendent shall have the authority to adopt rules and regulations for the sanitary and efficient management of the Department subject to the supervision and review of the City Council.
(Prior Code, § 6-302)
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