(a) No sewage disposal device or equipment shall be installed or maintained on property accessible to a sanitary sewer.
(b) The City Engineer shall approve the sanitary sewer for connection and issue written notification of acceptance. The Building Commissioner (or the Cuyahoga County Board of Health or the Ohio EPA) shall notify the property owner by either public notice or mail notice, when the sanitary sewer is made available.
(c) Whenever a sanitary sewer is made available to a property, and within three months of notification to the property owner, any sewage disposal device or equipment on such property shall be abandoned and the sewage shall be discharged directly from the building to the sanitary sewer through a watertight connecting sewer without passage through a sewage tank or other treatment device.
(d) No roof water, cistern overflow, or surface or subsoil drainage (storm water) shall be discharged to such sanitary sewer or to sewage disposal equipment hereinafter specified.
(e) The abandonment of such sewage tank or other device or equipment for treatment or disposal of sewage shall be accomplished in accordance with the requirements and specifications of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and the Cuyahoga County Sanitary Engineering Office.
(f) The Building Commissioner shall be responsible for the inspection and approval of the sewer connections from the building to the sanitary sewer connections as approved by the Cuyahoga County Sanitary Engineer’s Office.
(g) The Building Commissioner shall be responsible for issuing citations for failure to connect in a timely manner as required herein and/or stipulated by other governing authorities.
(h) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each day’s operation of a septic tank system without tying in pursuant to the requirements of this section shall constitute and be a separate offense.
(Ord. 17-2008. Passed 3-10-08.)