[Code 1961, § 9.03.06]
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this article:
Any building used or intended to be used for human occupation,
and shall include residential, commercial, industrial and other buildings
in which are installed sinks, toilets, lavatories and other such facilities
for public use, or private use.
The common waste water and water wastes from human dwellings
and from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries and similar
facilities of business and industrial buildings. Sanitary sewage shall
not include storm water from roofs, yards, streets or open spaces,
water from land surface or brooks, clean waste or overflow from springs,
wells or subsoil drainage, large volumes of clean water from air-conditioning
or cooling or condensing facilities, or clean water from hydraulically
operated contrivances.
Includes storm water from roofs, yards, streets or open springs,
and water collected in sump pits within the walls of a building, but
shall not include sanitary sewage as defined herein.
[Code 1961, § 9.03.07; Ord. No.
77-1, § 3, 4-4-1977]
It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Works and the
Building Inspector or the Director of Health to inspect, control and
enforce compliance with the provisions of this article. No permit
shall be issued for building or plumbing until a subsurface drainage
plan has been approved, and no certificate of occupancy shall be issued
in the absence of full compliance with this article. Any person or
property owner who fails within 30 days to comply any lawful order
issued by the Building Inspector or the Director of Health under the
provisions of this article shall be fined as provided in Section 1-8
for each such offense. Each succeeding day of noncompliance shall
constitute a separate offense.
[Code 1961, § 9.03.01]
(a)
All discharge to the public sanitary sewage disposal system or to
any private sewage disposal system from any habitable building shall
consist of sanitary sewage only.
(b)
No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged or construct
any pipes intended to discharge, either directly or indirectly, from
any habitable building into the public sanitary sewer system or any
private sewage disposal system any storm water seepage, subsoil drainage
or any other water except sanitary sewage.
(c)
No sump pit in any habitable building shall be located within five
feet of any drain leading from any habitable building into the public
sanitary sewer system or any private sewage disposal system.
[Code 1961, § 9.03.02]
No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged or construct
any pipes intended for the discharge of any sanitary sewage either
directly or indirectly from any habitable building into any brook
or watercourse.
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Editor's Note: Former Sections 9-24 and 9-25, which
contained provisions on subsurface and ground drainage, adopted as
§§ 9.03.04 and 9.03.05 of the 1961 Code, as amended,
were repealed 9-16-1985 by § 1 of Ord. No. 85-3.
