923.02 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED.
(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(d) The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated either within the City or outside the corporation limits of the City and within a designated sewer district or otherwise subject to a cooperative agreement with Wayne County or an adjoining township for the provision of sanitary sewerage services by 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 or combined sewer of the City, is hereby required at his 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 chapter, within ninety days after date of official notice to do so provided that such public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(Ord. 2011-27. Passed 10-17-11.)
(e) Whenever the paving or repairing of any street or public highway has been ordered by Council, it shall be the duty of the Director of Administration to serve upon such owners of property abutting upon such street or highway, as it may deem necessary, a notice directing such owners to make such sewer and water connections as it may designate within a time specified therein.
(f) At the expiration of the time specified, if such connections are not made as herein provided, the Director of Administration shall cause the same to be made and the cost thereof shall temporarily be paid by the City, which cost, together with a penalty of six percent (6%) shall be assessed by Council on such property abutting on the street or highway to be paved, to be paid in cash to the Director of Finance; if not so paid, the Clerk of Council shall certify such assessments to the County Auditor to be collected as other taxes are collected.
(g) Whenever sanitary sewers or portions thereof are laid at the expense of the City without the cost of such line or lines being, since January 1, 1960, paid for by, or assessed against, all the property owners abutting such lines and benefitted thereby, the owner of any of the abutting property to be serviced by such line or lines and for which property the cost thereof, since January 1, 1960, has not been paid or assessed, shall, except as provided in subsection (i) hereof, pay the charge provided for in Section 924.17 of the Codified Ordinances of the City before tapping therein.
(h) Whenever such lines are laid by the owners or other persons with the authority of and under the direction of the Director of Administration, except in cases where the owners of new subdivisions are required to make such installations at their expense by the order of the Planning Commission under and by virtue of the Subdivision Regulations of the City, such persons shall certify the cost of the improvements to the Director immediately upon completion. These amounts shall be subject to the approval of the Director and may be reduced if the Director, with the advice of the Engineer and in his qualified discretion, feels that the costs are excessive.
(i) The owner of any abutting property thereby serviced by any line or lines, the cost of which shall have been paid by persons other than the City, and for which property the cost thereof has not been paid, shall pay the tap charge as determined by the Director of Administration in accordance with this chapter before tapping therein. The money so received shall be paid to the persons who paid the cost of such line, or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, but in no event will the aggregate of such payments exceed the cost of the improvements certified to the Director. However, no such payment to such person or persons shall be made more than ten years after completion of the job and certification of the cost to the Director, and after such period the charge for tapping therein shall be the charge provided for in Section 924.17 of the Codified Ordinances of the City. Any money received for tapping in after ten years shall be a part of the Sanitary Sewer Fund of the City.
(Ord. 2001-57. Passed 11-5-01.)