[Code 1980 §§22-1 — 22-2; CC 1990 §24-26]
A. It shall
be unlawful for the owner of any property fronting or abutting on
any street, alley or easement where a public sanitary sewer exists
to fail or neglect to provide such building or house with an inside
water closet, to provide the same with water and to connect the same
with the public sanitary sewer so that such water closet may be ready
for use in the usual and ordinary way.
B. Any house or premises kept without the facilities and connections specified in Subsection
(A) shall be deemed a menace to public health.
[Code 1980 §22-3; CC 1990 §24-27]
It shall be unlawful to connect to or to permit the flow of
water from roofs, driveways, yards, courts or paved areas into a sewer
designed or used solely for sanitary or foul water sewage. Water from
such areas shall be drained into stormwater sewers but, if not accessible,
then into the street gutter or otherwise disposed of.
[Code 1980 §22-4; CC 1990 §24-28]
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or by design
obstruct, dam, fill in or otherwise change the grade of any public
surface drain for stormwater where the same has been located on any
easement granted or dedicated for such purpose so as to cause the
waters which normally flow through such drain to back up or be diverted
onto the property of other persons or upon other public property or
to maintain such obstruction, dam and fill in or change or grade without
obtaining permission therefor in writing from the Director of Public
Works.
[Code 1980 §22-5; CC 1990 §24-29]
Whenever complaint shall be made concerning the damming up,
filling in, obstruction or change of grade of surface water drains
over public easements, the Director of Public Works shall investigate
and make inspection concerning the same and in the event he/she shall
find that any person has obstructed, dammed, filled in or changed
the grade of such surface water drain so as to cause the flow of surface
water to be stopped, backed up or diverted onto private or public
property, he/she shall notify the person responsible for such obstruction,
damming, fill-in or change of grade of the surface water drain and
in the event the person so responsible cannot be ascertained, the
owner of the land on which such easement is located or the tenant
thereof shall remove such obstruction, dam, fill-in or grade change
within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice and failure upon
the part of such person to remove such obstruction, dam, fill-in or
grade change within ten (10) days of such notice shall be prima facie
proof of willfulness of his/her act in so obstructing or diverting
the flow of water over such surface water drain and such obstruction
shall be deemed a nuisance.