For the purpose of this division, the following words and terms
as used herein are defined to mean the following:
Service to any dwelling unit occupied as living quarters
for one or more persons, which establishment or unit has sanitary
water or sewage facilities.
Either a kitchen sink, bathtub or shower, commode, washing
machine, floor drain, dishwashing vats and any other plumbing fixture
from which wastewater or sewage passes through and into the house
drain and into the house newer, not including wash racks in garages
and filling stations; provided that when three or less dishwashing
vats are connected as one unit, with one drain, same shall be considered
as one fixture connection.
The part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside
the wall of the building and extending to and connecting with the
house sewer.
That part of the main drain or sewer extending from a point
four feet outside of the outer space of the outer wall or floor line
to a connection with the public sewer.
The waste from water closets, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs,
urinals, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains,
storerooms, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drips, drinking
fountains, stable floors, drains and other fixture connections.
(Ordinance 78, sec. I, adopted 3/23/60)
(a)
Any person, firm or corporation, partnership, association, or any
agent or employees thereof who shall violate any of the rules, regulations
or provisions of this division, or any part of it, or portion thereof,
by any act, either of omission or commission, or cause same to be
done, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00, nor more
than $500.00, for each and every such violation. Each violation of
each part of this division shall be and constitute a separate offense,
and where such violation is a continued act, each day such violation
is continued or permitted to continue shall be and constitute a separate
offense and punished accordingly.
(b)
In case of any willful or continued violation of the terms, conditions,
and provisions of this division, the city, in addition to imposing
the penalties above provided, may institute any appropriate action
or proceedings in any court having jurisdiction to restrain, correct
or abate such violation, and the definition of any violation of the
terms, conditions and provisions of this division as a misdemeanor
shall not preclude the city from invoking the civil remedies given
it by the law of the state, but same shall be cumulative and subject
to prosecution as hereinabove prescribed for such violation.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XXV, adopted 3/23/60; Ordinance 246 adopted 1/28/88)
(a)
For the purpose of providing for the efficient operation of the sewage
disposal system situated in the city, there is hereby created within
the city a department to be known and identified as the sewer department,
which department shall be under the supervision of a superintendent
who shall be the administrative officer of the department and such
other employees as the city council may direct. The superintendent
of the sewer department shall be appointed by the mayor, with the
advice and consent of the city council, for the term as may be fixed
by the governing body, and is to be paid such salary as the city council
may provide. The superintendent of the sewer department shall have
general supervision over all employees of the sewer system and shall
make frequent trips of inspection over all pipelines and other property
used in or connected with the sewer system, including the sewage disposal
plant, and shall make all repairs deemed necessary and consistent
with his duties; provided that the city council, when deemed expedient,
shall have the right to consolidate the department and/or position
hereinabove created with any other department and/or administrative
position, or positions, heretofore and hereafter created, and assign
all of the duties provided for the sewer superintendent and authority
herein conferred upon such officer to the officer in charge of the
office with which such consolidation is had.
(b)
The superintendent shall also report all violations of this division
to the mayor, and shall forthwith proceed to have prosecuted offenders
as set forth in this division.
(c)
In the performance of his duties as required by this section, the
superintendent shall be subject to all city ordinances, rules and
regulations made pursuant thereto, at all times.
(Ordinance 78, sec. II, adopted 3/23/60)
(a)
No person, persons, firm or corporation shall have the right to connect
any property with the sewer system of the city, and no connection
with the sanitary sewer system of the city shall be made, until the
owner of such property, or his agent duly authorized, shall have received
from the city a permit to do so, after having met the requirements
herein specified to obtain such permit. The owner of any property
desired to be connected with the sewer system of the city, or his
duly authorized agent, shall first make an application in writing
signed by such owner, or his agent duly authorized in writing to sign
such application for and in the name of the owner, upon blanks furnished
by the city and delivered to the officer in charge of the sewer department
of the city, for a permit to connect any such property with the city
sewer system; such application shall contain the precise location
of the property to be drained, the type of structure and the purpose
for which same is used, and give the name of the owner of the property
and the number and class of plumbing fixture to be contained within
the private system or property to be drained, and the name of the
person or firm employed to do the plumbing work contemplated to be
done and connected with the sewer system. Such application shall further
contain an agreement on the part of such applicant owner of the property
sought to be connected and drained by the sewer system of the city
that he will promptly pay to the city the rental charges then or thereafter
to be prescribed by the city for the use of the sewer system at the
times and in the manner prescribed now or hereafter by the ordinances
of the city, that he will abide by and observe the rules and regulations
governing the use of the city sewer system, and that he will be responsible
for the rental charges accruing up to the time that he gives actual
notice, in writing, to the city of a change in ownership of said property,
or to discontinue service thereto.
(b)
Any such permit issued shall remain in force only so long as the
owner of the property, and the applicant therefor, shall comply with
the rules and regulations now or hereafter prescribed for the use
of the sewer system, and shall pay the rental charges as provided,
and upon the failure of such property owner in either or any respect
to fully comply with the provisions hereof, said permit shall be subject
to cancellation, and the city shall have the right to discontinue
sewer service to such property, and this stipulation shall also be
contained in the application for a permit.
(c)
Before any application for a permit shall be received and permit
granted there must be paid to the city inspection fees and one month
rental for sewer service in advance, said advance payment to be applied
in payment of the rental and service charge for the first month following
commencement of service, if the permit is issued following the 15th
day of any calendar month. If the permit is issued on or prior to
such day the charge for sewer service shall commence on the first
day of the month in which the permit is issued.
(d)
Whenever any property for which a permit has been issued and sewer
service is being furnished changes ownership, the new owner shall
make application for a continuation of sewer service to such property,
and such application shall be made upon the same blanks and be subject
to the same terms and conditions and contain the same stipulations
as the original application, and such application shall be marked “application
for continuation of sewer service.”
(e)
When any person owning any property served by the sewer system in
the city shall change the plumbing in premises, other than single-family
dwellings, used exclusively as such, to be connected with the sewer
system so as to increase the number of plumbing fixtures connected
with the city sewer system, such person shall make a new application,
upon the same blanks, terms and conditions as an original application
as herein set but.
(f)
When sewer service for any property has been discontinued for any
reason, same shall not again be continued until the owner of such
property shall have made application as is set out herein for an original
application.
(g)
No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated in the
application.
(h)
A permit to make a connection with the sewer system or for a continuation
of sewer service will be issued only when the plumbing in the structure
or property to be connected and drained is in accordance with the
provisions for plumbing as are provided in the plumbing code for the
city, now in effect and hereafter adopted, and has been inspected
and approved by the city plumbing inspector.
(i)
There shall be no reduction or abatement of the sewer rental charge
for any property so long as said property is connected with the sewer
system of the city.
(Ordinance 78, sec. III, adopted 3/23/60)
Every application for permit filed to connect with the city
sewer system shall be accompanied by a fee in the sum of $65.00 to
cover the issuance of said permit, and $10.00 inspection charges,
plus one month sewer rental charge in advance, which sum shall be
paid directly to the city secretary, and no permit shall be issued
unless such fee and charge has been so paid. Provided, however, that
all owners of property situated within the city who apply for sewer
connection or connections to their respective premises, prior to the
initial construction and installation of sewer mains in the immediate
area wherein such property is situated, the city will install a street
service line running from the street sewer main to such owner’s
curb and gutter or sidewalk line, or to the owner’s property
line when no curb and gutter or sidewalk exists, free of any cost
to the owner other than the payment of inspection fees at time of
filing application for said sewer connections, and of the rental and
service charge for the first month beginning on the first day of the
calendar month after sewer service is made available to the owner’s
property, notwithstanding the available sewer service is not being
utilized by the owner at such time.
(Ordinance 78, sec. IV, adopted 3/23/60)
(a)
Residential garages.
Before any residential garage may
be connected to the city sewer, same shall be equipped with a cast-iron
sand trap provided with a removal receptacle inside of the trap to
remove mud, sand and other refuse washed into same. This provision
does not apply where such drain is located in such a manner as to
receive drainage exclusively from a washing machine used for laundry
purposes.
(b)
Commercial garages and filling stations.
Before any
wash racks at all commercial garages and filling stations may be connected
to the city sewer system, same shall be equipped so that wastewater
therefrom shall discharge into a two-compartment sand and grease trap
made of concrete.
(Ordinance 78, sec. V, adopted 3/23/60)
(a)
At any time after the effective date of this section, it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation owning, renting,
leasing or controlling, in whole or in part, any premises situated
within any section of the city where sanitary sewer shall exist and
where the property line of such premises approaches or extends to
within 100 feet of any such sewer, to construct, use or maintain,
or permit to be constructed, used or maintained, on such premises,
any septic tank, privy, cesspool, water closet, urinal basin, slop
sink, slop drain, bathtub, or water waste drain from dwellings, laundries,
livery stables, garages, filling stations or other places, or any
receptacles whatever used or to be used for the purpose of receiving
or removing sewer matter, or slop of any kind, unless the same shall
be connected with the system of sanitary sewage of the city.
(b)
All defective septic tanks, cesspools and other structures, devices
or other class outdoor facilities used for the purpose of receiving
human sewage that may be on any premises, as of the effective date
of this section, the property line of which, at any point, extends
to within 100 feet of a city sanitary sewer, shall be removed or abated
after the giving of notice as herein provided for removal and abatement
of same.
(c)
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy,
employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city
and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is
now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer
of the city, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer, within ninety (90) days after date of
official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within
one hundred (100) feet of the property line. All connections to the
public sewer system shall be made under the supervision of the city
and its representatives.
(Ordinance 78, sec. VI, adopted 3/23/60)
It shall be unlawful:
(1)
To uncover the public sewer or branches thereof unless by consent
and under the supervision of the officer in charge of the sewer department
of the city.
(2)
For the owner or occupant of any building, located on any lot reaching
within 100 feet of any city sanitary sewer, any portion of which is
used for any purpose during any portion of the day, to fail to have
at least one water closet connection with the public sewer.
(3)
For the owner or occupant of any building, located on any lot reaching
within 100 feet of any city sanitary sewer, in which food is cooked
or clothing is washed, to fail to have a suitable sink, slop stand
or hopper for the reception of water and connected with the city sewer
system.
(4)
To throw or allow to be thrown or deposited upon the surface of the
ground or in any hole or vault in or under the surface of the ground,
on any lot within 100 feet of any city sanitary sewer, any water which
has been used for domestic or manufacturing purposes, or any liquid
or any solid filth, feces or urine.
(5)
To throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, in any vessel
or receptacle connected with the city sewer system, any newspaper,
garbage, hair, fruit, ashes, vegetable peelings or refuse, rags, cotton,
cinders, or any other matter whatsoever, except feces, urine, the
necessary closet paper or liquid slops.
(6)
To fail or refuse to connect with the sanitary sewer all washstands
or slop stands, in a house or yard, where a city sanitary sewer is
within 100 feet of the property line, or to allow any slops, wash
or wastewater of any kind to flow over or under the pavement into
the streets or alleys.
(7)
To enter in or upon the premises of the sewage disposal plant site
and to in any wise tamper with, or injure in any manner whatsoever,
the buildings, fixtures and equipment of the sewage disposal plant,
or any fixtures, equipment or supplies that may be stored on said
site.
(8)
To discharge [to] any natural outlet within the city or in any area
under the jurisdiction of the city any sanitary sewage, industrial
waste, or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has
been provided.
(9)
To construct or maintain within the city any septic tank, privy,
privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended for
the disposal of sewage.
(10)
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the municipal sewage
works.
(11)
To discharge or cause to be discharged into a public sewer any of
the following described waters or wastes:
(A)
Any waste or water which contains more than 75 parts per million
by weight of fats, oil or grease.
(B)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other inflammable or
explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(C)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
(D)
Any solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to
flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of
the sewage works.
(E)
Any waters or waste containing a toxic or poisonous substance in
sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment
process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard
in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
(F)
Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character
and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle
such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
(Ordinance 78, sec. VII, adopted 3/23/60)
The property owner, or plumber, or both, shall be held responsible
for any injuries the plumber shall cause to the sewer or street in
making such connection.
(Ordinance 78, sec. VIII, adopted 3/23/60)
No person or corporation shall connect any open gutter, septic
tank, cesspool, privy, vault or cistern with any public sewer or any
private sewer connected with the public sewer.
(Ordinance 78, sec. IX, adopted 3/23/60)
No person or corporation shall deposit any garbage, offal, dead
animals, filth or any substance having a tendency to obstruct the
flow of sewage in any manhole, flush tank or sewer opening.
(Ordinance 78, sec. X, adopted 3/23/60)
It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to obstruct
or in any way injure any of the pipes, drains, works, or machinery
belonging to or connected with the sewer system of the city or to
place any substance whatever into any sink, water closet, bathtub,
vessels, drains, or other receptacles belonging to or connected with
said sewer system which may obstruct or injure same.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XI, adopted 3/23/60)
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to lay pipes for water,
gas, steam or any purpose in any street or alley where sewers are
laid shall give at least twenty-four hours’ notice to the city
officer in charge of the sewer department before opening the street
or alley, and the manner of excavating the trenches and laying the
pipe and backfilling over the same shall be subject to the approval
of the officer in charge of the sewer department. All such work shall
be planned and executed in accordance with the provisions of the plumbing
and other ordinances of the city so that no injury shall occur to
any street, public sewer or drain or to any house or other sewer drain
connected therewith.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XII, adopted 3/23/60)
A proper barrier and lights must be maintained on the banks
of the house or others sewer trench to guard the public against accidents
during the progress of work. In backfilling, no stone shall be used
and the earth shall be carefully rammed or flooded so as to keep the
pipe in proper position and to avoid settling.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XIII, adopted 3/23/60)
The owner or occupant of any building not located within the
city shall be allowed to make connection with the sewer system after
obtaining a permit as provided herein, and such work of connection
shall be subject to the regulations and inspections herein provided
for and the owner or occupant of any building thus connected shall
be required to pay the inspection, installation and the service charges
herein exacted.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XIV, adopted 3/23/60)
It shall be unlawful to connect any old house plumbing to the
city sanitary sewer system unless same conforms in all respects to
all requirements of the plumbing code of the city and shall be approved
by the plumbing inspector.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XV, adopted 3/23/60)
All connections of house sewer lines into the main and lateral
sewer lines shall be in accordance with the specification as is provided
in the plumbing code of the city.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XVI, adopted 3/23/60)
No permit for a basement drain shall be granted until the owner
of the building has executed and signed a written agreement releasing
the city from any damage that may result from the basement being flooded
by the stoppage of sewers, which agreement shall be filed with the
city secretary.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XVII, adopted 3/23/60)
No rainwater or downspout pipes, range boiler pipe, or other
pipe used to convey water or other substances of like character, except
the pipes necessary to plumbing systems, shall be connected to the
sewer system.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XVIII, adopted 3/23/60)
All drains from four feet outside of the building to the main
sewer must be of vitrified clay or cement pipe with bells, or extra-heavy
cast-iron pipe laid to a uniform grade. Joints of clay pipe shall
have bell holes provided or hemp gaskets put in and joints well cemented
with two parts of well-screened sand and one part of best Portland
cement, and cast-iron pipe shall be caulked and molten lead and oakum.
No vitrified clay or cement pipe shall be used for sewer connections
unless it is at least 12 inches underground. Extra-heavy cast-iron
shall be used where the depth of such pipes is less than 12 inches
underground.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XIX, adopted 3/23/60)
All sewer, soil and waste pipe drains shall have a continuous
fall of not less than one-quarter of an inch to the foot is obtainable
[sic].
(Ordinance 78, sec. XX, adopted 3/23/60)
It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the sewer department,
or his duly authorized agents, to enter all premises as may be necessary
in the enforcement of this division, and he is hereby so empowered,
and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to interfere
with any inspection being made by the city plumbing inspector or the
officer in charge of the sewer department, or his authorized agents,
in carrying out the provisions of this division.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XXI, adopted 3/23/60)
(a)
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to construct or extend or
make any extensions of any main or sub-lateral lines to be attached
to any of the main sewer lines or manholes installed shall be required
to file an application with and to secure a permit from the officer
in charge of the city sewer system authorizing said officer in charge
four copies of plans and specifications of the proposed extensions
and any subsequent changes thereto [sic], and before any action is
taken thereon, same shall be submitted to the state commission on
environmental quality for its approval, and upon receiving said approval
said plans and specifications shall be approved by the consulting
engineer of the city; said application shall contain the provisions
that said applicant agrees that permission is thereby given to the
agents of the state commission on environmental quality, and the city,
to inspect all of the work during its progress as often as may be
desired; and the applicant further shall agree that the plumbing work
installed in all structures to be connected to said extensions shall
comply with all applicable ordinances of the city and state laws and
that the extensions or lines being constructed within all easements
therewith shall after the completion thereof, to be conveyed to the
city without cost and without reservations of any kind.
(b)
All plans and specifications for sewer improvements and extensions
shall include the following:
(1)
Profiles of all sewers proposed.
(2)
Details of construction of manholes, flush tanks and substructure.
(3)
Shall be drawn to a scale of not less than 100 feet to the inch nor
greater than 300 feet to the inch.
(4)
Lines and figures shall be clearly and distinctly made thereon and
extensions to be built to be shown by solid lines: _______. Existing
sanitary sewers shall be shown by the following symbol: ......, and
combined sewers by a dot and dash .-.-.-; all topographical symbols
to be the same as those of the United States Geological Survey.
(5)
Elevations of the surface of the streets to be placed outside the
street lines in the upper right angle, or opposite their respective
positions in the street. The elevations of sewer inverts should be
shown at street intersections, ends of lines and wherever a change
of grade occurs. The elevations of the surface shall be shown to the
nearest 1/10 foot; those of the sewer invert to the nearest 1/100
foot. The sizes and gradients of all proposed and existing sewers
shall be marked along the line of the sewer.
(6)
All sewer appurtenances and unusual features, such as manholes, lamp-holes,
flush tanks, siphons, pumps, etc., shall be designated on the plans
by suitable symbols and referenced by a legend near the title.
(7)
Profiles of sewer lines shall be prepared and drawn to such a scale
as to show clearly the structural features of the sewer. For ordinary
use, the following scales are suggested: vertically, 10 feet to one
inch; horizontally, 100 feet to one inch. Both scales must be clearly
shown upon each sheet. Upon these profiles shall be shown all manholes,
flush tanks, lamp-holes, siphons and stream crossings, with elevations
of the stream bed and normal water. Figures showing the sizes and
gradients of sewers, surface elevations, sewer inverts, etc., should
be shown with the same frequency as required for the map.
(8)
When grades lower than those given in the recommended practice are
used, an explanation and reasons for the use of such grades should
be included in the engineer’s report. On each sheet of profiles
must be given, under the title, an index of the streets appearing
on that sheet. Profile sheets shall be numbered consecutively.
(9)
The detail plans shall be drawn to such a scale as to show suitably
and clearly the nature of the design and all details, such as manholes,
frames, covers, iron pipes, valves, gates, etc.
(10)
Title: Each drawing shall have legibly printed thereon the name of
the town or persons for whom the drawing is made, the name of the
engineer in charge, the date, the scale and such references and the
title as are necessary for the complete understanding of each drawing.
(c)
The applicant shall furnish built-in drawings in as many copies as
may be required by the city when the work is completed.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XXII, adopted 3/23/60)
All new extensions to the city sewer system and appurtenances
thereto shall be inspected and approved by the officer in charge of
the sewer system, and the consulting engineer of the city or his duly
authorized representative, before backfilling any part thereof. Any
person, firm or corporation violating this provision shall be subject
to the penalty provided for herein, and shall be compelled to uncover
said extension of any part thereof, so that same may be fully inspected
as provided herein.
(Ordinance 78, sec. XXIII, adopted 3/23/60)
