The provisions of this chapter are enacted to aid in the enforcement of the pretreatment regulations set forth in this chapter. The city by enacting this subchapter designates the WRA and its operating contractor as the enforcement agency under this chapter. Employees, agents and officers of the WRA and of its operating contractor, while acting to enforce this chapter for the WRA, are empowered to make inspections, issue orders or permits and take those actions within the corporate boundaries of the city or sanitary sewer district as are authorized by this subchapter. The WRA or its operating contractor is also authorized to impose and collect all fees or penalties authorized by this chapter, and are authorized to directly bill and collect from contributors penalties, fees, charges and surcharges from all users within the city. A user's failure to pay any fee, charge, penalty or surcharge is a municipal infraction and shall also be grounds to discontinue sewer service to the user, all as hereafter more particularly provided. The enforcement of this chapter in the city or sanitary sewer district is not dependent upon passage of this chapter or a similar ordinance by other WRA participating communities.
(Ord. 2010-09, passed 7-13-2010; Am. Ord. 2019-03, passed 2-26-2019; Am. Ord. 2022-09, passed 8-23-2022)
Cross-reference:
Municipal infractions, see Chapter 11