[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
All connection and extension permits for sanitary sewers shall continue to be issued by the Commissioner and in accordance with this chapter. The Commissioner and Department of Public Utilities will track and manage the available capacity when considering applications for new sewer connection and extension permits. The available capacity is limited by the permitted flow from the WWTP, by existing flows, by contractual obligations, and by planned development in the City. The Department of Public Utilities keeps a record of the flow allocations between these categories. The Department of Public Utilities reserves the right to reallocate flows between these categories as long as the total flows do not exceed the WWTP's average monthly permitted flow of 17.0 MGD, provided that the following provisions are met:
A. 
Reallocation of flows within the City or from any outside community does not result in an exceedance of the total projected available capacity and is consistent with existing agreements.
B. 
Changes to contractual flows from outside the City shall only be allowed by approval of the City Council or any future established Board of Public Works.
C. 
Reallocations shall be included as an agenda item at a publicly held meeting of the Department of Public Utilities.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
In any street opened or proposed to be opened for public travel and accommodation, every sewer now installed therein, or that may be hereafter installed, for the purpose of serving more than one building sewer shall be deemed to be a public sewer and hereafter every such sewer shall become the property of the City upon its connection with the wastewater system of the City and its acceptance by the Commissioner. No sewer or sewer appurtenance or structure shall be accepted by the Commissioner if such sewer shall discharge into any privately owned system of sewerage or privately owned wastewater handling or pumping facility prior to its connection to the wastewater system of the City. All such sewers hereafter installed, whether at the expense of the City or of private persons, shall be installed under the direction, supervision and control of the Commissioner.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
Whenever any street is opened for the installation of pipes or conduits for water, gas, electric, telecommunications, or other purposes, or for the prosecution of any work of construction, such pipe installation and the work connected therewith, or such work of construction, shall be executed as not to obstruct in any way the course, capacity or construction of the public sewer, and whenever utilities for any purpose of any work of construction are found to exist at such a depth or in such location as to interfere with an existing sewer or with the construction of any public sewer of the required size, and at the proper depth and grades, the person or the department maintaining the utility shall, upon notice thereof, at once remove, change or alter such pipes or other works in such manner as the Commissioner shall direct. If such person or department neglects to comply immediately with the terms of such notification, the Commissioner may make such removal, change or alteration, and the cost thereof shall be paid by such person or department.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
The Commissioner shall keep an accurate account of the cost and all other expenses of each public sewer and shall annually, upon request of the City Council, make a report thereof to the City Council. Such Commissioner shall, within one month of receiving a request by the City Council, submit to the City Council a report of all work performed in the sewer system during the year, including the total length and the amount of all expenditures from the appropriation for sewers.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
The wastewater from each building on every street provided with a public sewer shall be connected into such sewer; provided, however, that the Commissioner may exempt any building from the foregoing requirement until such time as they may determine. On all streets provided with a public sewer, the wastewater from all buildings hereafter constructed shall be connected into such sewer. No subsurface disposal system, holding tank, or cesspool for wastewater shall hereafter be constructed on any building abutting on a street provided with a public sewer.