(a) No person shall put the carcass of any dead animal, or the offal of any animal, or the contents of any privy vault or septic tank, or sewage or industrial waste, or any filthy or contaminating substance, into the waterways of the City, including any ditch, stream, river, lake, pond or other watercourse including any public or private storm water system or at any point of such waterways up to twenty miles from the corporate boundaries of the City. No owner, lessee, occupant or person in possession of any land situated within 165 feet of either side of such waterways, within the above limits, shall knowingly permit any of such substances to remain on such land or neglect or refuse to remove the same within twenty-four hours after knowledge of the existence and location of such substances or after notice thereof in writing from the Director of Public Service or his duly authorized representative.
(b) No person shall place or dispose of in any manner any garbage, waste, including yard waste, or peelings of vegetables or fruits, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, parts of automobiles, wagons, furniture, glass, oil, animal carcasses, animal feces or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature in any ditch, stream, river, lake, pond or other watercourse, except those waters which do not combine or effect the junction which with natural surface or underground waters, or upon the bank thereof where the same is liable to be washed into the water either by ordinary flow or annual floods.
(c) The Director of Public Service or his duly authorized representative may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property in the City to inspect and investigate conditions relating to water pollution and the construction, maintenance and operation of the public water system and may take samples for analysis.
(d) Whoever violates subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall be guilty of water pollution, a minor misdemeanor. If entry or inspection authorized by subsection (c) of this section is refused, hindered or thwarted, the Director of Public Services or his duly authorized representative may by affidavit apply to any judge of a court of record for an appropriate inspection warrant necessary to achieve the purposes of such section which are within the court’s territorial jurisdiction.
(Ord. 04-16. Passed 5-4-04.)