[R.O. 2008 §710.010; Code 1968 §28-5; CC 1988 §29-26; Ord. No. 20-2024, 10-14-2024]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
B.O.D. (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping for a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
CITY
The City or its authorized representative.
COOLING WATER
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other, but shall be free from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce B.O.D. or suspended solids in excess of ten (10) parts per million by weight.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Water-borne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels, office buildings, factories and institutions) free from storm surface water and industrial wastes.
DRAINAGE DITCH
Any artificially constructed open channel, ditch, swale or flume, whether lined or unlined, for the conveyance of stormwater and ground water.
GARBAGE
Every refuse accumulation of solid animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends to the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT
Any treatment plant device or facility used or intended to be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other wastes may or may not be present.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INSPECTOR
The person duly authorized by the City to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet for drainage of stormwater into a watercourse, stream, creek, river, pond, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Waters or wastes having a five (5) day biochemical oxygen demand not greater than three hundred (300) parts per million, by weight, and a concentration of suspended solids not in excess of three hundred fifty (350) parts per million by weight.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (½) inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer owned and maintained by the City.
SANITARY SEWAGE
A sewer designated and intended to receive and convey only sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEMI-PUBLIC SEWAGE DISPOSAL OR SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY
A device or facility for treating or disposing of sewage and industrial wastes from a school, public building, institution, church, hotel, motel or other building or structure not classified as private.
SEWAGE
The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings and institutional and industrial establishments, singularly or in any combination, together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as cannot be avoided.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures carrying sewage.
SEWER
Any public, semi-private or private pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Includes any sewage treatment facility, sewer, pumping station, appurtenance, equipment or any combination thereof used or intended to be used for the purpose of conveying, treating, or disposing of any wastewater, industrial waste or human excrement accumulating on any premises of the City.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration of flows during normal operations.
STORM SEWER
A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Enterprise Director or his/her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR WASTE
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances imparting taste and odor in receiving water; toxic poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous gases. It shall contain not more than ten (10) parts per million each of suspended solids and B.O.D. The color shall not exceed fifty (50) parts per million.
WATERCOURSE
A natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and ground water in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All rivers, streams, lakes, and other bodies of surface or subsurface water which are not entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership or corporation.
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Cross Reference — Definitions and rules of construction generally, §100.060.
[R.O. 2008 §710.020; Ord. No. 6535, 10-13-1997]
A. 
The City of Louisiana by and through City Council hereby ordains as follows:
1. 
Each user/customer of the City of Louisiana sewer system shall be responsible for construction, alteration, or maintenance of all sewer lines up to their connection into the main line.
2. 
The City will provide labor for repairs or replacement of sewer line under paved City streets.
3. 
The main sewer line shall be the property of the City of Louisiana.
4. 
The City will use reasonable efforts to determine whether any stoppage or defect in the sewer system is within the main line.
5. 
The City shall not be liable for any damage due to stoppage in the main line.
6. 
The City shall have exclusive control for the repair, alteration, or maintenance of the main sewer line.
[R.O. 2008 §710.030; Ord. No. 6541, 2-9-1998; Ord. No. 6574 §1, 2-8-1999]
A. 
The following shall be the responsibility of sewer service customers who are provided sewer service by the City of Louisiana, with said customers to bear the cost of same:
1. 
Any necessary replacement of sewer lines beyond the main.
2. 
Said line replacement shall include parts, piping fill, concrete, asphalt and other associated parts and labor needed to accomplish the replacement of any existing service line.
B. 
All work done in relation to sewer service shall be in accordance with all applicable ordinances, laws, and guidelines set forth by any local, State, Federal Government agency to include but not limited to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Louisiana Public Works Department.
C. 
The City will provide labor to make repairs on paved street easement.
D. 
The City will maintain all main lines of the City of Louisiana sewer system.
[R.O. 2008 §710.050; Code 1968 §28-6; CC 1988 §29-28]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon 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.
[R.O. 2008 §710.060; Code 1968 §28-7; CC 1988 §29-29; Ord. No. 20-2012 §1, 10-10-2012]
A. 
Within ninety (90) days after the effective date of this Section, each hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment that provides food to public shall install and maintain a City approved grease trap designed to segregate fat, oil, or grease in cooking or food preparation.
B. 
Each such hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment that provides food to the public shall be subject to an annual inspection by the City Building Inspector, or his/her designee, to insure the proper type, size and efficiency of such grease trap.
C. 
Failure of any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment that provides food to the public to possess a City approved grease trap provided in this Section is a violation.
D. 
Failure to any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment that provides food to the public to permit reasonable inspection by the Building Inspector, or his/her designee, to determine the presence, efficiency and proper maintenance under this Section is a violation.
E. 
Failure to any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment that provides food to the public to keep any grease trap reasonably clean, efficiently operating and free of clogs or obstructions is a violation of this Section.
F. 
It shall be unlawful to discharge into any sewer system or wastewater treatment system excessive amounts of fat, oil or grease used in cooking or food preparation.
G. 
Violation of any provision of this Section shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) and imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed ninety (90) days, or a combination of fine and imprisonment within that range. As part of any finding of guilt for violation of this Section, the court may require such violator to pay restitution to the City for the costs, including labor, borne by the City to repair clogs, obstructions or other damage caused in whole or part by violation of this Section.
[R.O. 2008 §710.070; Code 1968 §28-9; CC 1988 §29-30]
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment or recreation, or other purposes situated within the City and abutting any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the City, is hereby required at his/her 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 (90) days after the date of official notice to do so; provided that, such public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet of the property line.
[R.O. 2008 §710.080; Code 1968 §28-10; CC 1988 §29-31]
The City and its officers, employees and agents are prohibited from making or permitting to be made any connection between the water system of the City and a mobile home or other portable residence unless such structure is connected with the sanitary sewer system of the City and such connection is made in accordance with the regulations of the City, this Chapter and other ordinances of the City.
[R.O. 2008 §710.090; Code 1968 §28-29; CC 1988 §29-32]
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, yard drains, yard fountains, ponds, lawn sprays or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
[R.O. 2008 §710.100; Code 1968 §28-30; CC 1988 §29-33]
All extension of the sewer system of the City beyond the existing area of service shall be constructed by contractors in accordance with specifications of the City, subject to inspection by and approval of the City, at the expense of the persons applying for the service, and the same, when constructed, approved and connected to the system shall become the property of and subject to the control of the City; provided that, when such installation shall be adapted to the service of persons other than those bearing the expense of such construction, the specifications of the City shall require that the sewer so installed shall be adequate to serve needs of the area and its reasonably anticipated development; provided further, that the City is, in such event, authorized to agree to collect and to require the payment of a reasonable connection charge, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the benefit of the persons bearing the cost of the construction to the extent of the cost of such portion of the extension which is of service to others.
[R.O. 2008 §710.110; Code 1968 §28-31; CC 1988 §29-34]
The City shall require the payment of a connection charge of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the use and benefit of the City for every sewer connection beyond the corporate limits of the City.
[R.O. 2008 §710.120; Code 1968 §28-47; CC 1988 §29-35]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewerage works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.