(A) It is 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 is unlawful for any person to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater, or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and the city’s NPDES/SDS permit.
(C) Except as provided hereinafter, it is unlawful for any person to construct, or maintain, any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended, or used, for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties 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 chapter, within ten days of the date the public sewer is operational; provided, the public sewer is within 150 feet of the structure generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer 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 hereunder, the city must undertake to have the connection made, and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefitted property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the 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, § 3.40) Penalty, see § 52.99