(A) In the event that any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, which is connected to the wastewater sewer, is destroyed or removed, the owner shall file a certificate with the City Recorder and/or Administrator stating the date of destruction or removal. All service charges due shall be paid up to the date of destruction or removal, and thereafter, there shall be no monthly service charge made to the property until new improvements are placed on the properties and connected to the wastewater sewer.
(B) The City Recorder or Administrator, upon receipt of a certificate of destruction or removal of improvements to property connected to the wastewater sewer shall present the certificate at the next Council meeting and the Council shall then consider the matter. Upon adoption of a resolution removing the property from the sewer service charge rolls, the City Recorder or Administrator shall make the proper notation in the proper records of the city and remove the property from the monthly sewer charges until the property is again connected to the wastewater sewer.
(C) Every abandoned building sewer, or part thereof, shall be plugged or capped in an approved manner within five feet (1.5 meters) of the property line or right-of-way line. The abandonment shall be made under the supervision of the Manager or his or her authorized representative.
(D) It is further provided that, in the event at any time in the future, there shall be additional territory taken into the city or areas outside the city shall be served by the wastewater facilities every cesspool, septic tank and seepage pit which has been abandoned or has been discontinued otherwise from further use or to which no waste or soil pipe from a plumbing fixture is connected, shall have the sewage removed therefrom and be completely filled with earth, sand, gravel, concrete or other approved material.
(1) The top cover or arch over the cesspool, septic tank or seepage pit shall be removed before filling and the filling shall not extend above the top of the vertical portions of the sidewalls or above the level of any outlet pipe until inspection has been called and the cesspool, septic tank or seepage pit has been inspected by the Manager or his or her authorized representative. After the inspection, the cesspool, septic tank or seepage pit shall be filled to the level of the top of the ground.
(2) No person owning or controlling any cesspool, septic tank or seepage pit on the premises of the person or in that portion of any public street, alley or other public property abutting the premises, shall fail, refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section or upon receipt of notice so to comply from the department having jurisdiction.
(3) Where disposal facilities are abandoned consequent to connecting any premises with the public sewer, the permittee making the connection shall fill all abandoned facilities as required by the administrative authority within 30 days from the time of connecting to the public sewer.
(Ord. 157, passed 6-18-1998) Penalty, see § 50.99