(a)
Every residence, place of business, or other building or place where persons reside, congregate, or are employed, and which is situated on a lot or tract of land which abuts a street, alley, or utility easement in which there public sanitary sewer, shall be connected to the sewer by the owner or agent at the expense of the owner or agent of the premises in the most direct manner possible, and with a separate connection for each house, building, or place; except under the following conditions:
(1)
Where said connection would require boring under a roadway maintained by the United States, The State of Texas or the County of Cass; or,
(2)
Where said connection is to serve a facility in existence prior to the availability of sanitary sewer installation and such facility can not be served by gravity flow. This exception is not available to any facilities constructed subsequent to the installation of sanitary sewer in a street, alley, or easement abutting the property; or,
(3)
Where the distance of said connection is greater than 250 feet from the public sanitary sewer line.
(b)
Except as provided in (a)(1), (2) and (3), each house, building, or place, shall be connected to the public sanitary sewer within ninety (90) days from the date on which the city accepts the public sanitary sewer line as being operational.
(c)
Except as provided in (a)(1), (2) and (3), owner or occupant of each such house, building, or place, shall be charged the minimum sanitary sewer fee (whether functionally connected to the public sanitary sewer line or not) beginning ninety (90) days after the city accepts the public sanitary sewer line as being operational.
(d)
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or cause or permit anyone to violate any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision found in Section 1.106 of this code. Each and every day that any such violation of this article or any part thereof shall occur shall be considered to be a separate and distinct offense and punishable as such.
(Ordinance 447, adopted 1/18/95, Section II; Ordinance 447, adopted 1/18/95, Section III; Ordinance 447, adopted 1/18/95, Section IV; Ordinance 447, adopted 1/18/95, Section V)