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(a) The Director of Public Safety-Service, upon authorization by Council, may permit the extension and installation of sanitary sewers, storm sewers, or both, beyond the corporate limits of the City, and allow such extensions to be connected to existing or new sewers within the corporate limits, provided the existing sewers have the capacity to accept the new sewage flow they will be expected to receive, and that the new sewer extensions meet the specifications adopted as standard by the City for its sewer collection system. The plans and specifications for all sewer extensions outside the corporate limits shall be approved by the Director of Public Safety-Service, prior to the commencement of any construction.
(b) All extensions of sewers outside the corporate limits shall be effected only upon written agreement between the City and the land owner, or owners requesting the extension of the sewer line. Extensions of the sewer lines shall follow the procedures set forth in Section 911.10 of the Codified Ordinances.
(Ord. 3-06. Passed 3-14-06.)
(a) All sewer lines installed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether within or outside the corporate limits of the City, shall, upon connection with existing City sewer lines, become the sole property of the City, and thereafter the City shall exercise exclusive control over the sewer lines.
(b) The Director of Public Safety-Service shall have the authority and the right to further extend any sewer line extension, under any of the procedures set forth herein, to serve additional premises beyond any original or subsequent extension of a sewer or sewers without reimbursement to anyone who might have contributed to an earlier extension of a sewer or
sewers. (Ord. 3-06. Passed 3-14-06.)
The determination of the estimated cost of any proposed extension of a sanitary or storm sewer shall include, but not be limited to, all items of material and labor, including costs occasioned by the opening of pavements, street reconstruction or resurfacing, rock digging, together with allowances for engineering, testing, inspections, storage and delivery of materials and equipment all necessary to construct the extension.
(Ord. 3-06. Passed 3-14-06.)
Sewer line extensions into new real estate subdivisions shall not be permitted until the plat of the subdivision has been approved by the Planning Commission of the City, and the plat is accepted in accordance with the City ordinances.
(Ord. 3-06. Passed 3-14-06.)
Whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and be subject to imprisonment of not more than six months, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed to have been committed for each day that such violation continues after a period of thirty days following the original conviction.
(Ord. 37-05. Passed 12-20-05.)