[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Butler as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-21-1941 by Ord. No. 566]
[Amended 1-22-1957 by Ord. No. 835]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CITIES REPRESENTATIVE
The Director of Public Safety, the Superintendent of the Sewage Treatment Plant, the City Engineer or the City Clerk.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substance, not sewage, resulting from any manufacturing or industry.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried free under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than one-half-inch in any dimension.
SEWAGE
The waterborne human wastes and such household wastes as are hereinafter defined as "properly shredded garbage" but exclusive of roof drainage or other stormwater runoff.
Every person, firm or corporation permitting or causing any such matter or material to be discharged, deposited or placed in any sanitary sewer shall make provision to discontinue such practice within 30 days after receiving notice, in writing, from the city's representative so to do. Failure or refusal to comply with such notice shall constitute an offense and each day that shall elapse after 30 days from the date of the receipt of such notice shall be considered a separate offense and such person, firm or corporation shall, in addition to the penalty hereinafter provided for, pay all reasonable expenses incurred or damages resulting from the violation of any of the provisions of this article.
A. 
In the event that any person, firm or corporation producing any industrial waste or any material whatsoever, other than sewage, desires to discharge the same into a sanitary sewer, the city may, at its option, enter into a contract with such person, firm or corporation to permit such discharge into a city sewer at a cost to be determined by the city; such contract to require such person, firm or corporation to provide suitable apparatus for regulating the rate of discharge and/or treating the waste prior to discharge and for automatically and continuously measuring the quantity of waste discharged into the sanitary sewer, as the city may require. The city may require a bond for the faithful performance of such contract. The maximum duration of such contract shall be one year, after which time it may be renewed at the option of the city.
B. 
In the event that such a contract as provided for in Subsection A is entered into by the city, the city's representative shall have ready access to all apparatus installed under said contract, for the purpose of inspection and testing its operation. Any person, firm or corporation so contracting who permits material to enter the sewer in a different manner or of a different quality or quantity than provided for by the contract or permits the treating plants or measuring devices to get out of order and remain out of order after being notified by the city's representative, in writing, to repair the same shall be guilty of an offense and shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for and shall, in addition thereto, pay all reasonable expenses incurred or damages resulting from such practices, and each and every day that said apparatus remains out of order after notification, in writing, by the city's representative to have the same repaired, shall constitute a separate offense.
[Amended 2-20-1997 by Ord. No. 1430]
Any person, firm or corporation or agent or employee thereof, violating any of the provisions of this Article, shall be deemed guilty of an offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $300, plus costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than 90 days.
[Added 6-21-2001 by Ord. No. 1502]
The City of Butler hereby designates the Butler Area Sewer Authority (Authority), its officers, employees, successors and assigns as the agent of the City of Butler for the enforcement of City Ordinance Nos. 566 and 835, codified at Chapter 217, Articles I and II, of the City of Butler Code. The Authority is empowered and authorized to take any and all lawful, necessary actions in the name of the City of Butler to enforce the obligations and prohibitions of said ordinances and sections of the City of Butler Code.
[Adopted 2-19-1987 as Part 9, Title 3, Article 911, of the 1987 Codified Ordinances]
Every improved property in the city adjoining or abutting upon any street or alley in which a public sewer is now or shall hereafter be located and/or which is accessible to a public sewer shall be connected with such sewer in such manner and within such time as the city may order for the purpose of the discharge of sewage from such premises.
A. 
No privy vault, cesspool or septic tank for sewage shall hereafter be constructed or be allowed to continue in any part of the city where a sewer is at all accessible, such accessibility to be determined by the Board of Health. No connection for any privy vault, cesspool or septic tank shall be made with any sewer and no water closet or house drain shall empty into such privy vault, cesspool or septic tank.
B. 
The Board of Health shall have the power to issue notice, giving at least three months' time to discontinue the use of any such privy vault, cesspool or septic tank and have it cleaned and filled up.
[Amended 2-20-1997 by Ord. No. 1430]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before a District Justice, be subject to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $300 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to 30 days.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Article III, Certification of Sanitary Sewer Status, consisting of §§ 217-10 through 217-23, which immediately followed, adopted 12-23-2003 by Ord. No. 1545, was repealed 11-21-2024 by Ord. No. 1828.