[CC 1975 §67.010]
The Board may, by ordinance, cause a sewer system to be established,
composed of four (4) classes of sewers, to wit: Public, district,
joint district and private.
[CC 1975 §67.020]
Public sewers shall be established along the principal courses
of drainage, at such time, to such extent, of such dimensions, and
under such regulations as may be provided by ordinance; and they may
be extensions or branches of sewers already constructed, or entirely
new, as may be deemed best by the Board.
[CC 1975 §67.030]
The Board may provide, by ordinance, for the building of district
sewers within any sewer district or districts, and such sewers shall
connect with public sewers, other district sewers, joint district
sewers, or a natural drainage course, as the Board may determine.
District sewers shall be built, in accordance with the requirements
of the ordinance providing for their construction, whenever the Board
may deem them necessary or when a majority of the resident property
owners within a district shall petition the Board for their construction.
More than one (1) district sewer may be laid in any sewer district,
if deemed necessary by the Board, and the sewers may be changed, enlarged
or extended, and shall have all necessary appurtenances.
[CC 1975 §67.040]
Whenever the Board may deem it necessary that a sewer should
be constructed or reconstructed in any part of the City containing
two (2) or more sewer districts, they may, by ordinance, unite such
districts into one (1) joint district and cause a sewer to be constructed
therein in like manner and in all respects as provided for the construction
of other district sewers. The action of the Board in uniting sewer
districts shall be conclusive for all purposes, and no special tax
bill issued to pay the cost of any district sewer constructed in such
united district shall be affected or held invalid on account of the
included drainage area thereof, or the size, character or purpose
of such sewer. Provided however, that no district shall be included
in a joint district which is not contained in the natural drainage
area of the valley or watercourse in which the joint district sewer
is to be constructed.
[CC 1975 §67.050]
"Private sewers" are hereby defined to mean
any sewer which may have been constructed at private expense by any
person or corporation to whom the Board may have given, by ordinance,
the right to construct such sewer and which may have been constructed
either before or after the establishment of general or district sewer
systems. Provided, that private sewers shall be constructed only along
such courses, streets, alleys or roadways, and of such materials,
in such manner, and subject to such regulations as to the disposition
of sewage, as the Board may, by ordinance, prescribe. All such private
sewers may, at any time, be taken and appropriated and incorporated
into or made a part of any public or district sewer system or systems,
in the manner provided by law.
[CC 1975 §67.060]
For the building of district sewers, the City shall incur no
liability, but the cost thereof shall be defrayed by a special assessment
as hereinafter provided. Provided however, that if the City owns any
lot or tract of ground within the district in which a sewer may be
built, the City shall be liable for its proportionate share of the
cost of the sewer, in the same manner as other property owners within
the district.
[CC 1975 §67.070]
No sewer shall be run diagonally through private property when
it is practicable, without injury to the sewer, to construct it parallel
with one of the exterior lines of the property; nor shall any public
sewer be constructed through private property when it is as practicable
to construct it along or through a street or other public way.
[CC 1975 §67.080]
Whenever the Board shall order and provide for the construction
of any sewer contemplated by this Chapter, or provided for by law,
they shall direct some officer of the City to make an estimate of
the cost thereof, together with detailed plans and specifications
therefor, and report the same to the Board. The estimate, and plans
and specifications shall be filed with the Clerk, and shall be and
become a part of any contract into which the City may enter for the
construction of a sewer.
[CC 1975 §67.090]
Upon the filing of the estimate and the plans and specifications,
and the approval thereof by the Board, the Board shall direct some
officer of the City to advertise for bids for the doing of the work.
The successful contractor shall be required to give a bond, in such
amount, not to exceed the contract price, as may be fixed by the Board.
[CC 1975 §67.100]
As soon as any district sewer shall have been completed, the
officer designated by the Board to have charge of the construction
thereof, shall compute the whole cost thereof, and apportion the same
against the lots, tracts and parcels of ground, exclusive of improvements,
in proportion to the whole area, exclusive of highways; and such computation
shall be reported to the Board. Upon receipt of the officer's report
computing and apportioning the tax, the Board shall levy and assess,
by ordinance, a special tax against each lot, tract and parcel of
ground within the district, in the name of the owner or owners thereof.
Upon the levy of such tax, and in evidence thereof, the City Clerk
shall make out a certified tax bill, under the Seal of the City, against
each lot, tract and parcel of ground within the district, in the name
of the owners thereof, and the bills shall be signed by the Mayor,
attested and recorded by the Clerk, and delivered to the contractor.
[CC 1975 §67.110]
Certified tax bills so issued shall become due and payable thirty
(30) days after the date of issue, unless the owner of the property
described therein shall have filed with the City Clerk a written request,
prior to the acceptance of the work by the City, that his/her tax
bill or bills shall be made payable in installments, in which event
such bills shall be made payable in five (5) annual installments,
each representing one-fifth (1/5) of the total amount of the bill
and payable in one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5)
years after date of issue. The whole of such installment bill may
be paid at the date of any installment payment, but if any installment
remains unpaid when the same becomes due, then the remaining unpaid
installments shall, at the option of the holder of the bill, immediately
become due and payable.
[CC 1975 §67.120]
Each tax bill issued in compliance with the provisions of this
Article shall bear interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per
annum, unless a lesser rate of interest be fixed by the Board, from
thirty (30) days after the date of issue and until paid; and such
bills shall be and constitute a special lien against the property
described therein for a period of five (5) years from date of issue.
But provided, that when any bill shall have been made payable in installments
the special lien shall extend for a period of one (1) year after the
date on which the last installment shall become due.
[CC 1975 §67.130]
Whenever the Board may deem it necessary they may, by ordinance,
provide for the construction of a septic tank, or other sewage reduction
device, for the purpose of purifying the discharge from any district
or joint district sewer. In such case, the cost thereof shall be assessed
as a special tax against the lands, lots and parcels of ground in
the district or joint district for which the same is provided, such
assessment to be made, and tax bills to be issued in evidence thereof,
in the same manner as provided herein for defraying the cost of district
sewers.
[CC 1975 §67.140]
All material thrown from trenches and other excavations, made
for the purpose of laying private sewers to connect with district
sewers, shall be placed so as not to obstruct travel or cause inconvenience
to the public or adjoining owners. Proper barriers and lights shall
be maintained in the manner provided by the general ordinances of
the City. In back filling, the dirt shall carefully be rammed or flooded,
so as to keep the pipe in position and avoid settling, and no rock
shall be used in filling until there has been one (1) foot of fine
earth or gravel placed over the pipe.
[CC 1975 §67.150]
All private sewers, from a point three (3) feet outside of the
house to the district sewer, or cesspool, shall be of first quality,
salt glazed, vitrified earthenware pipe and having an interior diameter
of not less than four (4) inches nor more than six (6) inches.
[CC 1975 §67.160]
In connecting with the district sewer, the connection shall
be made at the "Y", and the cover of the "Y" branch shall carefully
be removed, so as not to injure the socket. The first length of pipe
attached to the "Y" branch shall be curbed and set so as to give a
good fall into the sewer. The pipe shall be laid on an even grade
of not less than one-fourth (¼) of an inch to the foot, where
possible. Curbed pipe shall be used for every deflection from a straight
line of more than six (6) inches in two (2) feet. Pipe joints shall
be made with equal parts of Portland cement and sand of first quality.
The ends of all private sewers, not immediately connected with the
plumbing fixtures, shall be closed securely with watertight, imperishable
material.
[CC 1975 §67.170]
No person, firm or corporation shall lay, alter, or repair any
private sewer, or make any connection whatever with any district or
public sewer system of this City, unless regularly licensed by the
City of Carl Junction.
[CC 1975 §67.180]
Any person or persons desiring to do business as a plumber in
the City of Carl Junction, shall file in the office of the City Clerk
an application, giving the name of the person, firm or corporation,
and his/her or their place of business, and asking to be licensed
as a plumber. Such application shall be signed by two (2) responsible
citizens of this City, vouching for the business capacity and reputation
of the applicant, that he/she is a master of his/her trade and willing
to be governed in all respects by all rules and regulations which
are, or which may hereafter be, in force, governing its sanitary sewer
system. Each applicant for a license shall execute and deposit in
the office of the City Clerk, with his/her application, a bond with
two (2) or more resident sureties, to be approved by the Mayor, in
the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), conditioned that he/she
or they will indemnify and save harmless the City from all accidents
any damages caused by any negligence in performing his/her or their
work, or by any unfaithful, imperfect or inadequate work done by him/her
or them, and that he/she will replace and restore to the same condition
he/she found it, all sidewalk material, curbing, paving, crossings,
or street surfaces over any opening he/she may have made, and keep
and maintain the same in good order and to the satisfaction of the
Street Commissioner.
[CC 1975 §67.190]
No person, company or corporation shall injure, break, or remove
any portion of any lamp hole, man hole, flush tank, or any part of
any sewer system or throw or deposit in it, or cause to be thrown
or deposited in any sewer opening or receptacle, or connection with
the sewer system, any garbage, offal, dead animals, vegetable parings,
ashes, cinders, rags, or anything whatsoever, except feces, urine,
the necessary toilet paper, and liquid house or mill slope.
[CC 1975 §67.200]
No open gutter, cesspool, cistern, refrigerator, down spout,
or privy vault shall be connected with any private, district, or public
sewer, or cesspool.
[CC 1975 §67.210]
All connections with the public or district sewer, and the laying
and back filling of private sewers, and any and all sewer work, shall
be done under the supervision of, and subject to the inspection and
acceptance of, the Plumbing and Sanitary Inspector.
[CC 1975 §67.220]
Every owner or occupant of any building situated upon the premises
over or through which is laid any public district or joint sewer,
or upon premises abutting upon any street, alley, or other public
highway, or public ground, along or through which is laid any public
district or joint district sewer, or any building situated within
the defined limits of any sewer district in the City, and reasonably
accessible to the sewer therein laid, shall connect such building
or premises with such sewer after the Board shall have given the owner
or occupant of any such building or premises twenty (20) days written
notice to make the connection as herein required, the notice to be
served upon such owner or occupant by the delivery, by the Marshal,
of a certified copy of the order.
[Ord. No. 00-17 §1, 6-6-2000]
If any person required to connect the sewer system pursuant to Section 710.220 shall fail, neglect or refuse to connect any building with the sewer system as aforesaid and as herein provided for, for more than thirty (30) days after being notified in writing by the City, then the City may advertise for bids for the construction and making of such sewer connection and may contract therefor with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders and cause such premises to be connected with the sewer system; and the costs and expenses thereof shall be assessed against the property and premises connected as follows:
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The City Clerk, upon receipt from the Superintendent of Public
Works of certified actual costs of such sewer connection at City expense,
shall cause a special tax bill to be prepared and assessed against
the property and premises connected. Upon such assessment, the special
tax bill shall be forwarded to the City Collector for collection.
The taxpayer obligated may, upon request, pay said special tax bill
in annual installments over a period of not more than ten (10) years.
Provided however, interest at a rate of eight percent (8%) per annum
on the unpaid balance shall be added to the special tax bill until
said bill is fully paid. The special tax bill from and after its date
of issuance and assessment, and to and until it is fully paid, shall
be deemed a personal debt against the property owner and shall also
be a lien upon the property and premises connected.
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[Ord. No. 91-8 §§1 —
3, 3-5-1991]
A.
Residences
and buildings on the north side of Forrest Drive are specifically
exempted from the required connection to the City's sanitary sewer
system, provided that there is no obvious septic tank problem, i.e.,
sewage on top of the surface of the ground, offensive odor, or other
manifestations of a failing or inadequate septic disposal system.
B.
In
the event that a septic system fails or proves to be inadequate, the
property owner, upon thirty (30) day's notice from the City, shall
install the necessary equipment to connect the residence and other
buildings to the City's sanitary sewer system.
C.
In
the event that the State or Federal Governments promulgate rules which
make this Section null and void, the City shall conform to all pertinent
laws and this Section shall become null and void.
