CHAPTER 52: SEWERS
Section
   52.01   Operation and funding
   52.02   Definitions
   52.03   Application for permit
   52.04   Sewer contract
   52.05   Mandatory hook-up
   52.06   Direct connections
   52.07   Service contracts
   52.08   Installation procedure
   52.09   Installation expense
   52.10   Repairs and maintenance
   52.11   Classification
   52.12   Old house sewers
   52.13   Unlawful use
   52.14   Special equipment
   52.15   Manholes
   52.16   Inspections
   52.17   Destruction of property
   52.18   Complaints
   52.19   Rates
§ 52.01 OPERATION AND FUNDING.
   The municipality owns and operates the sewer system through the Sewer Commissioner. The governing body, 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 the said tax shall be known as the Sewer Maintenance Fund. The Sewer Commissioner shall have the direct management and control of the Sewer Department and shall faithfully carry out the duties of his or her office. He or she shall have the authority to adopt rules and regulations for the sanitary and efficient management of the Sewer Department subject to the supervision and review of the governing body.
(Neb. RS 17-574, 17-925.01) (Prior Code, § 3-201)
§ 52.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   BUILDING 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 and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building 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 main sewer.
   GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
   INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
   NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
   pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
   PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. Waste from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded 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 any dimension.
   PUBLIC SEWER. A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by public authority.
   SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwater 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.
   SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
   SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
   SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
   STORM SEWER. A sewer which carries storm and surface drainage but excludes sewage and polluted industrial waste.
   SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and are removable by laboratory filtering.
   WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 3-202)
§ 52.03 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT.
   (A)   Any person wishing to connect with the sewer system shall make an application in writing therefor to the City Clerk. There shall be two classes of building sewer permits for:
      (1)   Residential; and
      (2)   Commercial service.
   (B)   In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall accompany his or her application with plans and specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the City Clerk. Sewer service may not be supplied to any house or building except upon the written order of the Sewer Commissioner. The Sewer Department shall not supply sewer service 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 city to provide sewer service to non-residents.
(Neb. RS 17-574, 19-2701) (Prior Code, § 3-203)
§ 52.04 SEWER CONTRACT.
   The city, through the Sewer Department, 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 city may also furnish sewer service to persons whose premises are situated outside the corporate limits of the city as and when according to law the governing body may see fit to do so. The rules, regulations, and sewer rental rates hereinafter named in this chapter 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 city to which said contract both parties are bound. If the customer shall violate any of the provisions of said contract or any reasonable rules and regulations that the governing body may hereafter adopt, the Sewer Commissioner or his or her agent may cut off or disconnect the sewer service from the building or premises of such violation. No further connection for sewer service to said building or premises shall again be made save or except by order of the Sewer Commissioner or his or her agent.
(Prior Code, § 3-204)
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