(A) It shall be necessary that all property owners, contractors or occupants of property owners, contractors or occupants of property that desire to connect roof or surface water drainage down spouts to any sanitary sewer system of the city must first secure a permit to do so from the Board of Public Works and Safety or its designated agent.
(B) The permit shall be issued only if the connection of the down spouts to the sanitary sewer system will not work a hardship or create a nuisance to the city by causing the water to overflow the sewer system in a manner that it could cause water to back up into homes of other persons in the area.
(C) The Board of Public Works and Safety is authorized, after due investigation, to order any persons to disconnect their roof or surface water drainage down spouts from a sanitary sewer system where the connection of down spouts causes a flood of the sewer system and results, or may result in inconvenience and nuisance to other persons by virtue of water being forced back up flooded sewers into basements and homes of other parties in that area.
(D) Whenever the Board of Public Works and Safety or its designated agent has reason to believe that a sewer is being overburdened by virtue of connection of down spouts, they shall give notice to the occupants and owners of the premises of this fact, and notify them to disconnect the down spouts within 10 days. If the owner or occupants fail to so disconnect the down spouts, then in that event the city shall have the right to enter on the property and disconnect the down spouts in order to abate a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 52.061) Penalty, see § 52.99