(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter and the city's NPDES/SDS permit.
(C) Except as provided hereinafter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the owner of any house, building, or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged and which is situated within the city and adjacent to any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the city, shall be required at the owner’s expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this code, within 90 days after the date of mailing or delivery of official notice to do so, provided the public sewer is within 150 feet of the property line of the property on which the structure generating the wastewater is located. Any house, building or property defined in this subsection which is served by a private septic system shall not be required to connect to public sewer unless the conditions set forth in § 52.56(F) occur. The owner of any lot or parcel of land 5 acres or larger in size, which is eligible for subdivision under the regulations in the underlying zoning district, is not subject to the mandatory connection to the public sanitary sewer of the city as required in this subdivision until such time that application for subdivision is made by the owner. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer pursuant to this section shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official 30-day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make the connection.
(E) In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under this section, the city must undertake to have said connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted property. Such assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the County Auditor and shall be collected and remitted to the city in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the city shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 403.02) (Am. Ord. 2008-2-2, passed 2-26-2008; Am. Ord. 2010-12-4, passed 12-14-2010; Am. Ord. 2011-9-4, passed 9-13-2011)