(a) (1) The owner(s) 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 or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the city, is/are hereby required at the owner(s) expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
(2) Any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleared of sludge and filled with suitable material.
(b) It shall be the responsibility of such owner(s) to properly maintain the sewer lateral and saddle tap to the public sewer main.
(c) (1) Where it is determined that intrusion of roots or other obstructions from a sewer lateral or saddle tap is impeding the proper flow of wastewater in the public sewer main, or where the condition of such lateral or tap is causing damage to the public sewer main, the city shall give notice to the owner of the sewer lateral or tap, establishing a period of 90 days from receipt of the notice, to abate the condition giving rise to the intrusion, obstruction or damage to the public sewer.
(2) If, following passage of the established period, the condition is not abated to the satisfaction of the city inspector, the city shall make or cause to be made the necessary corrective action, and shall charge the owner for the work, which charge if left unpaid, shall be certified as an abatement payable along with the taxes against the owner’s property served by the lateral or tap.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977; Ord. 1676, passed 1-3-2017)