No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area within the jurisdiction of the City any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City or within any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the Federal, State and City regulations. No owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any lot or land located within the City shall establish, construct, maintain or permit to remain, a privy, cesspool or other receptacle for sewage or excreta, or a connection to a private sewer, ditch or other outlet, if such lot or land is accessible to a public sewer constructed and used for the purpose of conveying sewage and if a public water main or other water supply satisfactory to permit use of plumbing is available. When such public sewer and water main or other water supply is available or is hereafter made available, a connection to such public sewer shall be established and used by such owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant.
Every building within this City shall be separately and independently connected by a separate building sewer to a public sewer where there is such sewer adjoining the lot or parcel of land on which such building stands.
Every building in existence prior to the construction of a public sewer adjacent to the lot or parcel of land on which such building stands shall, upon the construction of such adjacent public sewer be connected to such sewer within six months of the time the sewer is so constructed and made available for use.
The Director shall cause written notice to be given to the owner of each lot or parcel of land to which such connection required herein is to be made. The notice under this section shall be by certified mail addressed to such owner at his last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent. The returned receipt for notice given by certified mail accepted by the addressee or anyone purporting to act for him shall be prima-facie evidence of the service of notice required under this section.
If it appears by the return of the certified mail notice that the owner cannot be found, such owner shall be served by publication of the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation within the City.
If such connections to the public sewer are not installed by the owner of the property within thirty days from the date of service of such notice, the work may be done by the City and the cost thereof together with a forfeiture of five percent (5%) assessed against the lots and lands for which such sewer connections are made; furthermore, such owner shall be liable for all legal expenses, interest expense, etc., associated with the aforementioned action, as specified in Section 933.99(a).
(Ord. 87-8399. Passed 2-18-87.)