929.03 LICENSE REQUIRED.

(a) 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 under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste.

(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77.)

(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sanitary sewage, storm drainage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and Section 1181.05, subject to approval by the Director.

(Ord. 6-2008. Passed 2-20-08.)

(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater within the City.

(d) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley or right of way in which there is now located a public sanitary sewer of the City, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 180 days after the date of official notice to do so.

(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)

SEWER BUILDERS

929.03 LICENSE REQUIRED.

No person, firm or corporation shall lay, alter or repair any house drain, or make any connection whatsoever with any sewer, house drain or sewer drain work or do any kind of work connected with the laying of house drains or house sewers, or making any repairs, additions to or alterations in any drain or sewer connected with the public sewers in the City, unless licensed by the Director. Any person doing such work without such license shall be subject to a fine as provided in Section 929.99.

(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)

929.04 LICENSE FEE; BOND.

Any person, firm or corporation desiring to do business as a sewer builder in the City shall file with the Director an application furnished by him, together with a surety bond, acceptable to the Director in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) made payable to or in favor of the City, conditioned that he shall indemnify and save harmless the City from all accidents and the consequences thereof, and also from all damages caused by any negligence in protecting his work, or by any unfaithful, imperfect, inadequate, careless or unskilled work done by him, and that he shall also at the proper time promptly restore and replace the sidewalk, pavement, or street surface over any excavation he may have made to as good a state and condition as he found it previous to opening the same, and to keep and maintain the same in good order, to the satisfaction of the sewer inspector designated by the Director, for the period of twelve months next thereafter, and that he shall pay all fines imposed on him for a violation of any ordinance, rule or regulation prescribed by the City. He shall also submit with such application, proof of comprehensive general liability insurance with minimum and maximum limits in an amount satisfactory to the City. The sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) must be deposited with the application as payment for the annual charge for license as a sewer builder in the City. No license shall be granted for more than one year, and all licenses shall be granted to expire December 31.

(Ord. 58-2014. Passed 1-5-15; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)

CONNECTION PERMITS

929.05 SEWER CONNECTION PERMIT REQUIRED.

No connection shall be made with any public sewer or drain within the City without the written permission of the Director, and every connection or opening made into any public sewer or drain without such permission or in any manner different from the mode herein prescribed for such opening or connection shall subject the person making the same, and the owner of the premises directing it, to a penalty as provided in Section 929.99.

(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)

929.06 CITY NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY CONNECTION.

The City reserves the right to grant such permits as it may deem necessary for allowing persons to connect to the public sewers or drains, provided, however, that the permit shall be granted on the express condition that the owner for whose benefit such connection is made shall, in consideration of the privilege thereby granted, hold the City harmless for any loss or damage that may in any way result or be occasioned by such connection.

(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)

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