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* Editors Note: Ord. No. 4207, § 1, adopted July 8, 1974, amended this Code by repealing former ch. 24, §§ 24-1--24-4, 24-7 and 24-8, and enacting in lieu thereof new ch. 24, §§ 24-1--24-8, pertaining to the same general subject matter. Former ch. 24 was derived from 1953 Code, ch. 23, § 7; Ord. No. 2139, §§ 1--3, adopted Mar. 6, 1961; Ord. No. 3456, § 1, adopted May 25, 1970; and Ord. No. 3488, § 1, adopted July 21, 1970.
Editors Note: Resolution No. 10860, adopted June 26, 1979, approved the execution of the Intergovernmental Agreement with Pima County, Arizona, that transferred all of the ownership and maintenance responsibilities for the City of Tucson sewer system to Pima County, Arizona, and superseded the provisions of this Chapter for the duration of the Intergovernmental Agreement.
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Art. I. General and Administrative, §§ 24-1--24-3
Art. II. Connection Fees, §§ 24-4--24-19
Art. III. User Fees, §§ 24-20--24-39
Art. IV. Industrial Waste Control and Industrial Cost Recovery Program, §§ 24-40--24-53
Article I. General and Administrative
Sec. 24-1. Definition of terms.
Sec. 24-2. General considerations.
Sec. 24-3. Application for approval to construct sewerage systems, extensions or waste treatment works.
Article II. Connection Fees
Sec. 24-4. Fees for connection to sanitary sewers.
Sec. 24-5. Construction of sewer systems under private contract authorized.
Sec. 24-6. Provision for refund of cost of sewers installed by private contract under certain conditions authorized.
Sec. 24-7. Permits for temporary installations for areas not contiguous to sewers.
Sec. 24-8. Failure to obtain permits and approvals as required.
Secs. 24-9--24-19. Reserved.
Article III. User Fees
Sec. 24-20. Definition of terms.
Sec. 24-21. User fees.
Sec. 2422. Review of established fees; powers of the director.
Sec. 24-23. Minimum and maximum sewer user fees.
Sec. 24-24. Setting of fee.
Sec. 24-25. Private wells and private water companies.
Sec. 24-26. Sales taxes; business privilege taxes; in-lieu-of-franchise taxes.
Sec. 24-27. Billing.
Sec. 24-28. Deposits.
Sec. 24-29. Use of fund revenues.
Sec. 24-30. When and where bills are due and payable.
Sec. 24-31. User fees and water charges; application of payment.
Sec. 24-32. Enforcement.
Secs. 24-33--24-39. Reserved.
Article IV. Industrial Waste Control and Industrial Cost Recovery Program
Sec. 24-40. Definitions of terms.
Sec. 24-41. Rules and regulations.
Sec. 24-42. Permit for industrial wastewater discharge.
Sec. 24-43. Industrial wastewater permit requirements; restrictions and conditions.
Sec. 24-44. Truckers' discharge permit.
Sec. 24-45. Prohibition of specific substances.
Sec. 24-46. Industrial cost recovery.
Sec. 24-47 Power and authority of inspectors.
Sec. 24-48. Enforcement.
Sec. 24-49. Appeal procedure.
Sec. 24-50. Billing.
Sec. 24-51. Deposits.
Sec. 24-52. Use of funds.
Sec. 24-53. Effective date.
ARTICLE I.
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
Acre shall mean forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet of land, excluding easements or rights-of-way and any other unusable portions of land.
Applicant for development shall be defined as an applicant for sewer service for an area under development for marketing purposes.
Applicant for service shall be defined as an applicant for sewer service for personal use requiring the extension of an existing sewer.
Area under development refers to an area in which sanitary sewer improvements are being constructed and may include single-family and multiple-family residential subdivisions, mobile home subdivisions or parks, improvement districts, plats or development plans with intent of developing land for residential, commercial or industrial use. Generally the category includes all development in which "on-site" sewerage improvements have been provided by the applicant by improvement district or contract.
Director of water and sewers refers to the administrator of the city department of water and sewers and is hereafter referred to as "director."
Improvement district shall mean a district formed under the provisions of A.R.S. title 18, chapter 4, article 2, as amended, or formed by the city for the purpose of installation of sanitary sewers, which district shall be considered as an area under development
Industrial wastes shall mean the liquid, gaseous or solid wastes produced as a result of any industrial operation.
Multifamily residence shall mean a residential complex under single or corporate ownership, designed for use by more than one (1) family unit, including apartments, mobile home parks, hotels, motels, school dormitories, guest ranches and churches, but excluding townhouses and condominium projects, excepting those fixtures to which the public has general access such as restaurants, bars, laundromats, etc., which should be continued under the commercial classification.
Nonparticipating property shall mean any property either residential, commercial or industrial that has not participated directly in the construction cost of a sanitary sewer providing service to that property.
Off-site sewerage improvements shall include all sewerage construction necessary to connect "on-site" facilities to an existing system as required by the director of water and sewers.
On-site sewerage improvements shall mean all sewage facilities within any plat, improvement plan, development plan or other improvement but shall exclude capacities in excess of capacities necessary to serve the development as may be required by the director.
Participating property shall mean any property, either residential, commercial or industrial, that has participated directly in the construction cost of a sanitary sewer providing service to that property.
Person shall mean the state, a municipality, county or other political subdivision, a cooperative, institution, corporation, company, firm, partnership or individual person.
Pollution shall mean contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters in the city, discharge of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance into any waters, onto or under any land within the city that creates a nuisance or renders such waters or land harmful or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other lawful beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.
Residential shall mean an area under development where a family unit normally resides.
Sewage shall mean the wastes from toilets, baths, sinks, lavatories, laundries and other plumbing fixtures in residences, institutions, public and business buildings, mobile homes, and other places of human habitation, employment or recreation.
Sewerage system shall mean pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains and all other devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting and conducting wastes to a point of treatment and disposal.
Subdivision shall mean any tract of land which is hereafter divided into five (5) or more parcels along an existing or proposed street, highway, easement or right-of-way for sale, lease or rent as residential, industrial or commercial building plots regardless of whether the lots or plots are described by metes and bounds, by reference to a map or survey of the property, or by any other method.
Waste treatment works shall mean any plant, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, incinerator or other works used for the purpose of treating or stabilizing sewage and industrial wastes.
Waters of the city shall mean all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through the border upon the corporate limits of the city or any portion thereof.
(Ord. No. 4207, § 1, 7-8-74; Ord. No. 4340, § 1, 4-7-75; Ord. No. 4594, § 1, 11-22-76; Ord. No. 4672, § 1, 6-20-77)
(a) No sewage or industrial wastes shall be permitted to flow into waters within the city or upon or under any lands within the city in any manner determined by the director to be detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of persons who may be affected by the resulting environmental condition.
(b) No individual disposal system, development plan or improvement plan shall be approved, nor shall any sewage disposal system be installed in a subdivision or development consisting of lots one (1) acre in size or less, except as approved by the director.
(c) Where soil conditions or topography are such that in the opinion of the director, based on his experience, knowledge or engineering data, a septic tank system cannot be expected to function satisfactorily or where groundwater conditions are such that septic tank systems may cause pollution of the groundwater supply, other sewage disposal methods satisfactory to the director shall be provided; and in no such case shall an individual disposal system be approved or installed.
(d) Subdivisions consisting of lots of one (1) acre or less within the corporate limits of the city shall be connected to a sewerage system.
(Ord. No. 4207, § 1, 7-8-74; Ord. No. 4594, § 2, 11-22-76)
Before any person shall construct or contract for the construction of sewerage systems, sewerage system extensions, or waste treatment works or shall install any such process, device or equipment, either in whole or in part, an application for approval to construct the contemplated works shall be made to the director on forms provided by the director. The director shall act on the complete application within thirty (30) days upon receipt thereof by designating either approval or disapproval. In case of a disapproval, the director shall state in writing the reasons for the disapproval. No construction shall be commenced until approval has been obtained from the director.
(Ord. No. 4207, § 1, 7-8-74; Ord. No. 4594, § 3, 11-22-76)
ARTICLE II.
CONNECTION FEES
CONNECTION FEES
(a) Connection Fees Relating to Participating Property in Areas Under Development.
(1) Single-family residential. For service of residential subdivisions and residential improvement districts, the fee shall be charged at the rate of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) per residential lot payable in cash at the time of application or upon execution of a written agreement between the owner and city for the sewer service.
(2) Multifamily residential. For service of residential subdivisions and residential improvement districts, the fee shall be charged at the rate of two hundred seventeen dollars ($217.00) per residential unit payable in cash at the time of application or upon execution of a written agreement between the owner and the city for the sewer service.
(3) Commercial and industrial. For service of commercial and industrial property, the fee shall be charged at the rate of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for each fixture unit so connected as determined from the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the city [section 6-124], and according to the following tables:
TABLE 1 | ||
Kind of Fixture | Minimum Trap and Trap Arm Size (inches) | Units |
TABLE 1 | ||
Kind of Fixture | Minimum Trap and Trap Arm Size (inches) | Units |
Bathtubs | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Bidets | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Dental units or cuspidors | 1 1/2 | 1 |
Drinking fountains | 1 1/4 | 1 |
Floor drains | 2 | 2 |
*Interceptors for grease, oil, solids, etc. | 2 | 3 |
*Interceptors for sand, auto wash, etc. | 3 | 6 |
Laundry tubs | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Clothes washers | 2 | 2 |
*Receptors (floor sinks) indirect waste receptors for refrigerators, coffee urns, water stations, etc. | 1 1/2 | 1 |
*Receptors, indirect waste receptors for commercial sinks, dishwashers, airwashers, etc. | 2 | 3 |
Showers, single stalls | 2 | 2 |
Showers, gang, (one unit per head) | 2 | |
Sinks, bar, private (1 1/2" min. waste) | 1 1/2 | 1 |
Sinks, bar, commercial (2" min. waste) | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Sinks, commercial or industrial, schools etc., including dishwashers, wash up sinks and wash fountains (2" min. waste) | 1 1/2 | 3 |
Sinks, flushing rim, clinic | 3 | 6 |
Sinks, and/or dishwashers (residential) (2" min.waste) | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Sinks, service | 2 | 3 |
Trailer park traps (one for each trailer) | 3 | 6 |
Urinals, pedestal | 3 | 6 |
Urinals, stall | 2 | 2 |
Urinals, wall (2" min. waste) | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Urinals, wall trough (2" min. waste) | 1 1/2 | 3 |
Wash basins (lavatories) single | 1 1/2 | 1 |
Wash basins, in sets | 1 1/2 | 2 |
Water closets | 3 | 6 |
*Note--The size and discharge rating of each indirect waste receptor and each interceptor shall be based on the total rated discharge capacity of all fixtures, equipment or appliances discharging thereinto in, accordance with table 2.
Drainage piping serving batteries of appliances capable of producing continuous flows shall be adequately sized to provide for peak loads. Clothes washers in groups of 3 or more shall be rated at 6 units each for the purpose of common waste pipe sizing.
Where trap sizes are increased over the minimums shown in table 1 or greater waste loadings are evident, the discharge rating shall be determined in accordance with table 2.
Trap sizes shall not be increased to a point where the fixture discharge may be inadequate to maintain their self- scouring properties.
TABLE 2
DISCHARGE CAPACITY
(in gals. per min.)
Up to 7 1/2
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Equals | 1 unit |
8 to 15 | Equals | 2 units |
16 to 30 | Equals | 4 units |
31 to 50 | Equals | 6 units |
Over 50 gals. shall be determined by the administrative authority.
(b) Connection Fees Relating to Nonparticipating Property in Areas Under Development.
(1) Single-family residential. For service of single-family residential property, the fee shall be charged at the rate of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per fixture unit as determined from the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the city [section 6-124].
(2) Multifamily residential. For service of multifamily residential property, the fee shall be charged at the rate of twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) per fixture as determined from the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the city, but not less than two hundred seventeen dollars ($217.00) per residential unit.
(3) Commercial and industrial. For service of commercial and industrial property, the fee shall be charged at the rate of seventy dollars ($70.00) per fixture unit as determined from the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the city.
(c) Special Facilities. If the property to be connected to the sanitary sewer system necessitates the construction of special facilities required to handle the waste, the director may require the applicant to provide these special facilities at his own expense.
(Ord. No. 4207, § 1, 7-8-74; Ord. No. 4594, § 4, 11-22-76; Ord. No. 4854, § 1, 7-3-78; Ord. No. 4860, § 1, 8-7-78)
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