All sewer lines constructed under railroad tracks shall be of
extra heavy cast iron pipe.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-129)
House sewer connections shall not be made to any city sewer
manhole or cleanout stack, unless written permission is secured from
the city sanitary sewer division. No rainwater downspout or area,
yard, street, gutter or subsurface drains shall be connected to any
sanitary sewer, except by a special permit from the city engineer.
The city sanitary sewer division shall at all times have the right
to close up or disconnect from the city sanitary sewer system any
line which is used for the purpose of carrying rainwater into the
said sanitary sewer, or where a connection has been made to the city
sanitary sewer without a permit or inspection as required by this
article. The plumbing inspector shall notify the city sanitary sewer
division in writing to disconnect from the city sanitary sewer main
any sewer serving any premises where unauthorized plumbing has been
installed until a permit has been issued and an inspection has been
made and approval given by the plumbing inspector as required in this
article.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-130)
(a) Definitions.
When used in this section, these terms
shall be defined as follows:
Building permit.
A permit required by the city for the construction of any
new dwelling or building.
Commercial.
Any customer served by a single meter or meters that is engaged
in any type of business, except the processing, fabrication, or manufacturing
of any goods or products and any type of dwelling unit.
Commercial-multiple unit.
Any customer that has a single meter or meters serving more
than one business per meter and/or three or more dwelling units per
meter.
Director.
The director of the water department of the city or his authorized
representative.
General benefit facility.
Wastewater facilities that provide utility services and benefits
common to all customers of the utility; this includes wastewater treatment
plants, control systems and appurtenances, and all major collectors
and interceptors that are eighteen inches (18") and greater in diameter.
Industrial.
Any customer served by one or more water meters whose sewage
contains wastewater from a product fabricated, processed, or manufactured
by the customer.
Industrial-monitored class.
Any customer determined by the director to be a producer
of any sewage having a suspended solids or BOD content which is significantly
in excess of that found in normal sewage, but is otherwise acceptable
into the city sanitary sewer system.
Living area.
The enclosed area of a dwelling that does not include garages,
carports, and outside patios or porches.
Meter.
A device that measures the quantity of water used. The types
of meters used herein are those described in the American Water Works
Association C700 through C703 and M6 standards.
Public utility.
Any person, firm, corporation, cooperative corporation, or
any combination of these persons or entities including a municipal
corporation, water supply or sewer service corporation, or other political
subdivision of the state, or their lessees, trustees, and receivers,
owning or operating for compensation equipment or facilities for the
provision of potable water to the public or for the collection and
treatment of sewage for the public, but does not include any person
or corporation not otherwise a public utility that furnishes the services
only to itself or its employees or tenants as an incident of that
employee’s service or tenancy when that service is not resold
to or used by others.
Residential.
Any customer living in a dwelling having the necessary living
facilities for one unit that is served by a single water meter. This
class also includes a duplex dwelling where no more than two living
units are supplied water through a single meter.
(b) System facility access fee.
No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall be entitled to initial wastewater service until payment of the appropriate system facility access fee as set forth in subsection
(c) hereof. Payment of the system access fee is required as a condition precedent to establishing initial wastewater service. All other conditions for initiating service, such as deposit requirements, tap fees, extension agreements, and service charges as covered elsewhere in the city code and are in addition to the system access fee.
Prior to the initial connection of any building, structure, premises, or lot after the date of this section (May 26, 1987) to the city’s wastewater system, the owner of that building, structure, premises or lot shall pay the system facility access fee as established in subsection
(c), such fee to be paid in cash prior to the issuance of the building permit.
(c) Schedule of fees.
System facility access fees shall
be as provided for in the most recent fee schedule adopted by the
city.
(d) Private and public facilities.
If any property within
or without the city’s corporate limits utilizes a water well,
a septic tank, or an individual waste disposal system and the property
owner requests to be connected to the city’s wastewater system,
the customer shall be assessed the fee established by this section
before the property is connected to the city’s wastewater system.
Should the property owner request only a wastewater connection while
retaining a private water well, the appropriate fee to be assessed
will be determined by the director of the water department.
A system facility access fee will not be assessed to any property
which is receiving service from a wastewater treatment plant owned
by a public utility when such public utility is acquired by the city
and connected into the city’s wastewater system.
(e) Clarifications and determinations.
Where a question
arises as to the classification of a customer’s service class
and/or the appropriate meter size, the director shall make the determination
in accordance with the existing city code as of the date the question
arises. Any customer shall have the right to request in writing from
the director an interpretation or clarification of the basis upon
which a system facility access fee was assessed.
(f) Increasing size of meter.
If a customer requests an increase in meter size to an existing service, the customer shall pay the fee difference between the new level of service and the existing level of service as set out in subsection
(c) hereof. The additional fee shall be paid prior to the installation of the enlarged meter service.
A request for additional sewer connections for improved property
shall not result in the assessment of an additional system facility
access fee so long as no increase in the size of the water meter is
made.
(g) Waiver of initial fee.
No system facility access fee
shall be assessed an application for initial wastewater service provided:
(1) All approach and on-site mains and facilities are in place and final
inspection has been conducted and accepted by the water department;
(2) Such application for the initial wastewater service is presented
to the city on or before June 1, 1987; and
(3) The application for a building permit for the same property as the
initial wastewater service application is presented to the city on
or before September 30, 1987.
(Ordinance 410 adopted 5/26/87; Ordinance adopting Code)