[CC 1984 §22-1; Rev. M.C. 1963 §9.01; Ord. No. 3140 §22-1]
All premises shall be connected to the sanitary sewer to take
care of all the sanitary waste of such premises.
[CC 1984 §22-2; Rev. M.C. 1963 §9.01; Ord. No. 3140 §22-2]
The use of septic tanks on any premises is prohibited.
[CC 1984 §22-3; Rev. M.C. 1963 §9.03; Ord. No. 3140 §22-3]
No person shall deposit or throw into any sewer or sewer inlet
or any private drain connecting any public or joint district sewer
any waste, produce or material of manufacture, manure or garbage,
or any substance which may cause any sewer to choke up or which may
cause a nuisance.
[CC 1984 §22-4; Ord. No. 3140 §22-3.1; Ord. No. 3620 §1, 12-17-1979; Ord. No. 4235 §13, 9-6-1988]
A. No
person, firm or corporation shall develop, pave or in any way alter
the nature and properties of the ground surface of any tract of land
in the City which will tend to affect the stormwater runoff without
having first secured approval of such development, pavement or alteration
from the City Manager or his/her designee.
B. The
City Manager shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules and
regulations concerning stormwater runoff. Whenever such rules and
regulations have been adopted, the enforcement of such rules and regulations
for the best interest of the City shall be the responsibility of the
Street Superintendent.
[Ord. No. 4734 §§1 —
3, 5-3-1999; Ord. No. 5520, 9-5-2023]
A. The
City of Richmond Heights does hereby levy and impose an annual fee
of fifty dollars ($50.00) on all residential property having six (6)
or less dwelling units to provide the funds to pay the cost of certain
repairs of defective lateral sewer service lines of those dwelling
units, to be collected by St. Louis County via the annual St. Louis
County Real Estate Property Tax Bill.
B. The
funds collected shall be deposited in the established special account
to be used solely for the purpose of paying for all or a portion of
the costs reasonably associated with and necessary to administer and
carry out the defective lateral sewer service line repairs. All interest
generated on deposited funds shall be accrued to the special account
established for the repair of lateral sewer service lines.
C. The
appropriate City Officers are authorized and directed to establish
a special trust fund to be known as the Sewer Lateral Repair Program,
from which fund expenditures may be made as deemed necessary or advisable
for certain repairs to defective lateral sewer lines.