[Prior code § 18-15]
A.
The Mayor and council shall adopt the following rules, regulations
and minimum requirements and specifications that must be met and complied
with before any addition or subdivision or the individual lots therein,
whether within or without the limits of the City, shall be eligible
to be connected with or furnished any public utilities of the City
including water, electricity or sewer system:
1.
Every plat of a proposed addition or subdivision before the filing
and recording thereof must be approved by the City council after being
first submitted to the planning and zoning board of the City for its
recommendations concerning its approval or disapproval with reference
to compliance with existing laws and ordinances or those enacted in
the future and with reference to provision for continuity of and connection
with existing streets in the City so as to provide sufficient through
streets to provide for the smooth and orderly flow of traffic;
2.
The owners of each such addition or subdivision desiring to connect
with or be furnished any public utilities of the City lying outside
of the limits of the City must consent and agree to the annexation
of the territory included within such addition or subdivision to the
City either as of a current date or at any time in the future any
such territory is adjacent to or abuts upon the limits of the City
at any point;
3.
Every new street hereafter built or constructed upon such additions
or subdivisions shall be of portland cement or asphaltic concrete
materials and shall be constructed to comply with the minimum specifications
for streets constructed with such materials. These specifications
are available in the City Clerk's office;
4.
The building inspector of the City shall be notified at or prior
to the time of the commencement of the construction of such new streets
and shall be given an opportunity from time to time as he may request
to inspect all phases of construction of such streets in order to
determine that the minimum specifications hereinabove set out are
being met;
5.
The contractor constructing any such new streets or the developer
of such additions or subdivisions in which such new streets are constructed
shall provide a good and sufficient bond running in favor of the City
and the property owners in such subdivision or addition and with good
and sufficient corporate surety to provide for and to be conditioned
upon the maintenance of such new streets with a smooth hard surface
and with proper drainage at his expense for a period of five years
after their completion to be approved by the building inspector or
Mayor and council;
6.
The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to require
that every street laid out, surveyed or platted in any addition or
subdivision need be constructed prior to the time of connection with
public utilities of the addition or subdivision. This chapter shall
and does require that before any building is constructed or building
permit issued for any individual building or property the street in
front of such property or building shall be completely constructed
in accordance with these minimum specifications and connected with
an existing street;
7.
No sanitary sewer service lateral shall be connected to the public
sewage disposal system unless and until the same shall have been installed
upon a cushion of clean sand at least three inches in depth the entire
distance from any building to the sewer main connection. It shall
be the duty of the building inspector or other administrative authority
designated by the City council to inspect such sanitary sewer service
lateral prior to being covered by fill material, and no such service
line shall be connected to the public sewage disposal system until
the same shall be so inspected and approved by such administrative
authority; and
8.
Each sanitary sewer service lateral line shall be installed with
a cleanout facility capable of being closed with a threaded plug located
as close as possible to three feet from the building being served.
No such sewer service shall be connected to the public sanitary sewer
collection unless the cleanout facility shall have been installed
therein, and such facility inspected and approved by the administrative
authority.
[Prior code § 18-16]
The municipal utility department of the City shall not furnish
City water, gas or electricity to new applicants or to applicants
requesting reconnection after being disconnected, for premises containing
buildings intended for human occupancy whether residential, business
or otherwise, or whether within or without the limits of the City,
unless the sewer disposal systems upon the premises are either connected
with the City sewer systems or with a septic tank constructed and
operating in accordance with the regulations of the Oklahoma state
department of health.
[Prior code § 18-17]
Any person making application to the municipal utility department
of the City for connection or reconnection with any of such utilities
shall state in writing whether or not the sewer facilities on the
premises in question are connected with the City sewer lines. If the
sewer is not so connected, the applicant must obtain an inspection
and certificate from the state department of health or county sanitarian
from the state department of health or representative from the department
of the City building inspector, if a representative of the state department
of health or county sanitarian are not available within a reasonable
time, certifying that the sewer and septic tank facilities upon premises
are constructed and operating in accordance with the regulations of
the Oklahoma state department of health before the municipal utility
department shall connect or reconnect such utilities.
[Ord. 734, 10-2-1989]
All new buildings built upon and mobile homes and buildings
moved on to spaces or lots within the City with existing or new utility
connections must be inspected by the City building inspector and a
permit issued to the owner prior to connection of utility service
(including electric, water, sewer and gas) by any public service company
providing utility service within the City. The fee for such inspection
shall be that provided for regular building inspection as provided
by this Code.
[Prior code § 18-18]
Any persons making false statements to obtain such utility services
or connecting or reconnecting with City utilities in violation of
the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense against
the City and each day of use of utilities in violation hereof shall
be considered a separate offense.
[Ord. 989-2002, 7-18-2002]
A.
Required: Effective November 1, 2002, all commercial kitchens shall
be required to have a grease separating tank. Said tank shall comply
with the plumbing code currently adopted by the City of Tahlequah.
The owner of such an establishment shall be responsible for supplying
the Tahlequah public works authority with copies of the most current
receipt from a licensed tank cleaning company. The owner of such an
establishment shall supply Tahlequah public works authority with a
regular cleaning schedule as recommended by the licensed tank cleaning
service and each time the tank is cleaned the owner shall forward
a copy of the paid receipt.
B.
Failure to Comply: Any owner of such an establishment who fails to
have a grease separator tank shall be deemed in violation of this
section.
Any owner of such an establishment who fails to supply the cleaning
recommendations and the copies of receipts of cleaning shall be deemed
in violation of this section.
Any owner who fails to comply with any part of this section shall be subject to the penalties as set forth in Subsection D of this section.
C.
Enforcement: The Tahlequah public works authority general manager,
or his designee, shall enforce this section and shall have the authority
to issue citations to any person, firm, or corporation, which violates,
in any manner, this section.
D.
Penalty: Violations of the conditions set forth by this section shall
be punishable by fines of $200 for the first time violators and $500
for repeat violators. Each day that a violation exists shall constitute
another violation.
