(A) The Director of Public Works shall be charged with the administration of the sewer system and with the enforcement of all of the provisions of this chapter. The Director of Public Safety and all police officers of the city shall be deputies of the Director of Public Works for such purposes.
(B) In the event of a violation of any terms of this chapter, the Director of Public Works, in writing, shall notify the person causing, allowing or committing the violation, specifying the violation and the time after which, upon the failure of the person to prevent or rectify the violation, the Director of Public Works will disconnect the property served by the city sewer system; provided, that the time shall not be less than 15 days after the deposit of the notice in the U.S. Post Office in the city, addressed to the person to whom notice is given. In the event the violation results in an immediate public hazard or menace, then the Director of Public Works may enter upon the premises without notice and do the things and expend the sums as may be necessary to abate the hazard and the reasonable value of things done and the amounts expended in so doing shall be a charge upon the owner in violation. All charges due and payable by the owner to the city, pursuant hereto, and unpaid when due shall become a lien and placed upon the secured tax roles of the county for the parcel being served.
(`61 Code, § 18.20) (Ord. 258, passed 12-4-1950; Am. Ord. 858, passed 9-20-1994)