(a) (1) No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged, either directly or indirectly, any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(2) Any connections made either before or after the effective date of this chapter shall be considered illegal and shall be subject to immediate removal by the owner of the premise so connected and at such owner's expense.
(3) The Director of Public Safety-Service or any employee of the City designated by him may enter upon any lot or parcel of land within the City and test any downspout on any building thereon to determine whether or not it discharges water into any sanitary sewer.
(4) Should the owner of an illegally connected premise fail to remove the connection within ninety (90) days, the City shall cause the connection to be removed, charging the owner the full costs of such removal.
(b) Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into sewers which are specifically designed and designated as storm sewers or to a combined sewer or a natural outlet approved by the City.
(c) No person, firm, or corporation, or municipality constructing a sanitary sewer, building or house connection, shall leave same open, unsealed, or incomplete in such a fashion as to permit storm, surface or subsurface water to enter the sewers.
(d) No person shall open, enter, or allow to remain open, any manhole in any public sewer without a permit from the Director of Public Safety-Service.
(Ord. 73-12. Passed 12-10-12.)