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The inspector and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within the easements. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
Any person found to be violating any provisions of this article except § 15-428 shall be notified in writing by the city, stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the initiation and completion of the correction thereof. The notified person shall, within the period of time stated in the notice, certify to the city that corrections have been initiated.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
(a) Any person violating any of the provisions of §§ 15-403 through 15-432 of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined a sum not to exceed $500 for each offense, at the discretion of the court, and every such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day on which such violation shall continue.
(b) Any person violating any of the provisions of §§ 15-403 through 15-432 of this article shall become liable to the city for any expense incurred as a result of such violations.
(c) In cases of repeated violations, the city may revoke the permit for the discharge of wastes into the sewer system, and effect the discontinuation of water and sewer service or both.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
(a) The city shall not be liable to any sewer customer for failure to provide adequate sewer service or for damages resulting from sewer backups unless the city is grossly or wantonly negligent or intends to create damages to the sewer customer.
(b) The city does not guarantee the provision of adequate sewer service through any of its mains and connecting services at any time except only when its mains are in good working order to meet the usual demand of its customers.
(Ord. 1081, passed 9-18-1990)
All users of the wastewater facilities of the city are hereby classified in the following manner.
(a) Individual domestic. Individual domestic shall mean any single-family residence, commercial business, office, institution, school, church or public entity having an individual direct or indirect connection to the wastewater facilities of the city and an individual city or private water service meter.
(b) Multi-domestic. Multi-domestic shall mean any multi-family residence, apartment or mobile home and any commercial business, office, institution, school, church or public entity having a direct or indirect connection to the wastewater facilities of the city and not having an individual water service meter, however served with city or private metered water by the owner of the property on which it is located.
(c) Industrial. Industrial shall mean any individual business engaged in the manufacturing or processing of one or more products, and in which wastewaters are produced from such manufacturing or processing, which are discharged, directly or indirectly, to the wastewater facilities of the city.
(Ord. 801, passed 6-21-1977)
(a) Generally. For the purposes of this article, CUSTOMER shall mean the account holder assigned a city water meter (excluding irrigation only meters) and having city wastewater service. For all residential and non-residential customers of the city, except as provided under division (b) below, the basis for the monthly use charges shall be the average monthly metered water consumption for January, February and March each year, which shall be effective from April 1 of the year until April 1 of the following year. New customers shall be billed by the average for the same customer class, until an average monthly metered water consumption for the January, February and March usages can be established. When the city is unable to read the water meter within the base period, the meter consumption shall be estimated based on the customer’s prior history.
(b) Car washes.
(1) Where water consumption is totally or partially used for a car wash, the basis for the monthly wastewater use charge shall be the average monthly water consumption over the most recent six-month period, from the April reading to the September reading, effective October 1 of each year, and from the October reading to the March reading, effective April 1 of each year.
(2) If no average water consumption is available for the applicable period, then the actual monthly water consumption shall be used for monthly wastewater billing purposes until the applicable average water consumption can be established.
(Ord. 1377, passed 4-2-2002; Ord. 1742, passed 1-19-2021; Ord. 1784, passed 11-15-2022; Ord. 1798, passed 12-5-2023)
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