(A) The head person of the Wastewater Department or his or her designate shall have the right to inspect any and all treatment facilities in any industrial and/or commercial business or endeavor, whether inside the city or outside the city, which in any way utilizes the facilities of the Wastewater Department for the purpose of ascertaining the proper operation and functioning of the pretreatment facilities and machinery and/or to ascertain that the machinery is properly pretreating sewage to be dumped into the Wastewater Department line, and is in accordance with the Indiana State Board of Health standards regarding the pretreatment facilities and equipment and the discharge therefrom into the city’s sewage lines and ultimate treatment by the city's wastewater treatment plant.
(B) Should any industrial and/or commercial business or endeavor discharge or cause to be discharged into any facility or sewage line of the City Wastewater Department any non-biodegradable sewage and/or non-organic foreign substances, and that as a result of the prohibited discharge, the city shall incur a cost in repairing and/or replacing equipment (wastewater treatment plant equipment, machinery or other facilities, lift stations equipment, machinery and facilities, sewage lines due to blockage which requires repair or replacement), the costs which the city may incur shall be assessed and billed to the perpetrator discharging or causing to be discharged prohibited waste which shall be paid by the perpetrating industrial and/or commercial endeavor or business within a period of 60 days or the businesses and endeavors shall be penalized as hereinafter specifically set forth.
(Prior Code, § 52.076) (Ord. 10-80, passed 3-24-1980; Am. Ord. 23-2005, passed 1-9-2006) Penalty, see § 52.999