All premises generating sewage shall be connected to the sewerage system except as provided pursuant to Section 15.16.020. The maintenance and use of any means of sewage disposal except as provided in this chapter shall be unlawful and is deemed to constitute a public nuisance.
(Prior code § 2-15.10.02; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
A. 
It is unlawful to construct any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, holding tank or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage in any manner other than through the sewerage system unless approval has been granted by the city council in accordance with the provisions of this section.
1. 
Applications for private disposal of sewage shall be made to the director who shall forward the request, together with the director's recommendation, to the city council for approval, conditional approval or disapproval.
2. 
No private system for sewage disposal shall be approved unless the system meets the minimum requirements of the county health department and any applicable provisions of city council policies which may have been adopted, from time to time, regulating such private system of sewage disposal.
B. 
All buildings inhabited by human beings which are not more than 250 feet from the sewerage system or an extension thereof, and for which there is a grade sufficient to allow gravity flow, shall be connected to the sewerage system.
C. 
All privies, privy vaults, septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks, or other facilities used for the private disposal of sewage preexisting at the time of adoption of this title shall be permitted to continue, subject to the abatement provisions in subsection B of this section, and subject to their continued operation in a safe and healthy manner. Any preexisting private disposal facility which fails, and/or becomes a nuisance in fact, shall be immediately repaired, replaced or abandoned, and the city shall have the authority and all enforcement powers provided in Chapter 15.12 of this title to require repair or replacement of the same or connection to the sewerage system. Any replacement private system for sewage disposal shall require city council approval pursuant to subsection A of this section as if the same constituted a new system.
(Prior code § 2-15.10.03; Ord. 1082 § 2, 1983)
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Editor's Note: For rules regulating septic tanks, see Res. 73-139, on file in the office of the city clerk.