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Mayflower Municipal Codes

Chapter 10.04 – Sewer Regulations

Sections:
10.04.01 Definitions
10.04.02 Prohibited discharges
10.04.03 Chemical discharges
10.04.04 Hazardous metals and toxic materials
10.04.05 Particulate size
10.04.06 Storm water and other unpolluted drainage
10.04.07 Temperature
10.04.08 Radioactive wastes
10.04.09 Impairment of facilities
10.04.10 Compliance with existing authority
10.04.11 Approving authority requirements
10.04.12 Approving authority review and approval
10.04.13 Requirements for traps
10.04.14 Requirements for building sewers
10.04.15 Sampling and testing
10.04.16 User charge system
10.04.17 Savings clause
10.04.18 Conditions or permits
10.04.19 Power to enter property
10.04.20 Authority to disconnect service
10.04.21 Notice
10.04.22 Continuing prohibited discharges
10.04.23 Penalty
10.04.24 Failure to pay
10.04.25 Penalty for criminal mischief
10.04.26 Use of public sewers required
10.04.27 Penalties

10.04.01 Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used shall be as follows:

“Approving Authority” means the Mayor or his duly authorized representative.

“BOD” (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5) days at twenty (20E) degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter.

“Building Sewer” shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public wastewater system or other place of disposal (also called the house lateral and house connection).

“City” means the city of Mayflower, Arkansas, or any authorized person acting in its behalf.

“Chemical Oxygen Demand” (COD) means measure of the oxygen consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter presenting the water or wastewater expressed in mg/1 as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in a specific test, but not differentiating between stable and unstable organic matter and thus not necessarily correlating with biochemical oxygen demand.

“Control Manhole” means a manhole giving access to a building sewer at some point before the building sewer discharge mixes with other discharges in the public wastewater system.

“Control Point” means point of access to a course of discharge before the discharge mixes with other discharges in the public wastewater system.

“Garbage” shall mean animal and vegetable wastes and residue preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, processing, storage and sale of food products and produce.

“Industrial Waste” means waste resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business from the development of any natural resource, or any mixture of the waste with water or normal wastewater, or distinct from normal wastewater.

“Industrial Waste Charge”
means the charge made on those persons who discharge industrial wastes into the city’s wastewater system.

“Milligrams Per Liter” (mg/1) means the same as parts per million and is a weight-to-volume ratio; the milligram-per-liter value multiplied by the factor 8.34 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons of water.

“Natural Outlet” shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or ground water.

“Normal Domestic Wastewater” means wastewater excluding industrial wastewater discharged by a user into the wastewater system and in which the average concentration of total suspended solids is not more than 250 mg/I and BOD is not more than 250 mg/I.

“Overload” means the imposition of organic or hydraulic loading on a treatment facility in excess of its engineered design capacity.

“Person” shall mean any individual, and includes any corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership association, or other legal entity.

“Ph” shall mean the logarithm (Base 10) of the reciprocal of hydrogen ion concentration.

“Public Sewer” shall mean a pipe or conduit carrying wastewater or unpolluted drainage in which owners of abutting properties shall have the use, subject to control by the city of Mayflower, Arkansas.

“Sanitary Sewer” means a public wastewater system that conveys domestic wastewater or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm water, surface water, groundwater, and other unpolluted wastes are not intentionally passed.

“Slug” shall mean any discharge of water, wastewater, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.

“Standard Methods” means the examination and analytical procedures set forth in the latest edition, at the time of analysis, of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” as prepared, approved, and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

“Storm Sewer” means a public sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, and into which domestic wastewater or industrial wastes are not intentionally passed.

“Storm Water” means rainfall or any other forms of precipitation.

“Superintendent” means the Water and/or Wastewater Superintendent of the city of Mayflower, Arkansas, or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.

“Suspended Solids” shall mean solids measured in mg/I that either float on the surface, or are in suspension in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtration device.

“To Discharge” includes to deposit, conduct, drain, emit, throw, run, allow to seep, or otherwise release or dispose of, or to allow and permit wastewater and wastes of any kind to the wastewater system.

“Trap” means a device designed to skim, settle, or otherwise remove grease, oil, sand, flammable wastes or other harmful substances.

“Unpolluted Wastewater” means water containing
A. No free or emulsified grease or oil,
B. No acids or alkalis,
C. No phenols or other substances producing taste or odor in receiving water,
D. No toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state, or solution,
E. No noxious or otherwise obnoxious or odorous gases,
F. No more than an insignificant amount in mg/I each of suspended solids and BOD, as determined by the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology, and G. Color not exceeding fifty (50) units as measured by the Platinum-Cobalt method of determination as specified in Standard Methods.

“Waste” means rejected, unutilized or superfluous substances in liquid, gaseous, or solid form resulting from domestic, agricultural, or industrial activities.

“Wastewater” means a combination of the water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with any ground, surface, and storm water that may be present.

“Wastewater Facilities” includes all facilities for the collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of wastewater and industrial wastes.

Wastewater Treatment Plant” means any city owned facilities, devices, and structures used for receiving, processing and treating wastewater, industrial waste, and sludges from the sanitary sewers.

“Wastewater Service Charge” means the charge on all users of the public sewer system whose wastes do not exceed in strength the concentration values established as representative of normal wastewater.

“Watercourse” means a natural or man-made channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 1.)

10.04.02 Prohibited discharges

A. No person may discharge to the public wastewater system any waste which by itself or by interaction with other wastes may:

  1. Injure or interfere with wastewater treatment processes or facilities.
  2. Constitute a hazard to humans or animals.
  3. Create a hazard in receiving waters of the wastewater treatment plant effluent.

B. All discharges shall conform to requirements of this ordinance.
(Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 2.)

10.04.03 Chemical discharges

A. No discharge to the public wastewater system may contain:

  1. Cyanide greater than 0.05 mg/1
  2. Fluoride other than that contained in the public water supply
  3. Chlorides in concentrations greater than 250 mg/1
  4. Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
  5. Substances causing an excessive Chemical Oxygen Demand (C.O.D.)


B. No waste or wastewater discharged to the public wastewater system may contain:

  1. Strong acid, iron pickling wastes, or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
  2. Fats, wax, grease, or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) mg/I or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperature between thirty-two (32) and one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit (0 and 65 degrees Centigrade).
  3. Objectionable or toxic substances, exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the composite wastewater treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Approving Authority for such materials.
  4. Obnoxious, toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in quantities sufficient to violate the provisions of Section 2(a).


    C. No waste, wastewater, or other substance may be discharged into public sewers which has a ph lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0 or any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and/or personnel at the wastewater facilities.

    D. All waste, wastewater, or other substance containing phenols, hydrogen sulfide, or other taste-and-odor producing substances, shall conform to concentration limits established by the Approving Authority. After treatment of the composite wastewater, concentration limits may not exceed the requirements established by state, federal, or other agencies with jurisdiction over discharges to receiving
    waters. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 3.)

    10.04.04 Hazardous metals and toxic materials

    A. No discharges may contain concentrations of hazardous metals other than amounts specified in subsection (b) of this section.

    B. The allowable concentrations of hazardous metals, in terms of milligrams per liter (mg/1, for discharge to the surface waters, and determined on the basis of individual sampling in accordance with Standard Methods are:

    • If at least a tenfold dilution is available in a receiving sewer system at its absolute minimum flow or in a receiving stream at its absolute minimum flow, there allowable values may be increased tenfold, or to the maximum limits shown above.


    C. No other hazardous metals or toxic materials may be discharged into public sewers without a written permit from the Approving Authority specifying conditions of pretreatment, concentrations, volumes, and other applicable provisions.

    D. Prohibited hazardous materials include but are not limited to:
    Antimony
    Beryllium
    Bismuth
    Cobalt
    Molybdenum
    Fungicides
    Uranyl ion
    Rhenium
    Strontium
    Tellurium
    Herbicides
    Pesticides
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 4.)

    10.04.05 Particulate size

    A. No person may discharge garbage or other solids into the public wastewater system unless it is shredded to a degree that all particles can be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers. Particles greater than one-half (½) inch in any dimensions are prohibited.

    B. The Approving Authority is entitled to review and approve the installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of three-fourths (3/4) horsepower (0.76 hp metric) or greater.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 5.)

    10.04.06 Storm water and other unpolluted drainage

    A. No person may discharge to the public wastewater system:

    1. Unpolluted storm water, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff or subsurface drainage.
    2. Unpolluted cooling water.
    3. Unpolluted industrial process waters.
    4. Other unpolluted drainage, or make any new connections from inflow sources.


    B. In compliance with the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act (Act 472 of 1949, as amended) and other statutes, the Approving Authority may designate storm sewers and other watercourses into which unpolluted drainage described in subsection (a) of this section may be discharged.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 6.)

    10.04.07 Temperature. No person may discharge liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred twenty (120) degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Centigrade), or any substance which causes the temperature of the total wastewater treatment plant influent to increase at a rate often (10) degrees Fahrenheit or more per hour, or creating a combined total increase of plant influent to one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Centigrade).
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 7.)

    10.04.08 Radioactive wastes

    A. No person may discharge radioactive wastes or isotopes into the public wastewater system without the written permission of the Approving Authority.

    B. The Approving authority may establish, in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations, regulations for discharge of radioactive wastes into the public wastewater system.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 8.)

    10.04.09 Impairment of facilities

    A. No person may discharge into the public wastewater system any substance capable of causing:

    1. Obstruction to the flow in sewer.
    2. Interference with the operation of treatment processes of facilities.
    3. Excessive loading of treatment facilities.


    B. Discharges prohibited by Section 9 (a) include, but are not limited to, materials which exert or cause concentrations of:

    1. Inert suspended solids greater than 250 mg/1 including but not limited to:
      a. Fuller’s earth
      b. Lime slurries
      c. Lime residues
    2. Dissolved solids greater than 200 mg/1 including but not limited to:
      a. Sodium chloride
      b. Sodium sulfate
    3. Excessive discoloration including but not limited to:
      a. Dye wastes
      b. Vegetable tanning solutions
    4. BOD, COD, or chlorine demand in excess of normal plant capacity.


    C. No person may discharge into the public wastewater system any substance that may:

    1. Deposit grease or oil in the wastewater system in such a manner as to clog the sewer pipes.
    2. Over load skimming and grease handling equipment.
    3. Pass to the receiving waters without being effectively treated by normal wastewater treatment processes due to the non-amenability of the substance to bacterial action.
    4. Deleteriously affect the treatment process due to excessive quantities


    D. No person may discharge any substance into the public wastewater system which:

    1. Is not amenable to treatment or reduction by the processes and facilities employed.
    2. Is amenable to treatment only to such a degree that the treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.


    E. The Approving Authority shall regulate the flow and concentration of slugs when they may:

    1. Impair the treatment process
    2. Cause damage to collection facilities
    3. Incur treatment costs exceeding those for normal wastewater.
    4. Render the effluent unfit for stream disposal or industrial use.


    F. No person may discharge into the public wastewater system solid or viscous substances which may violate subsection (a) ofthis section if present in sufficient quantity or size including but not limited to:

    • ashes
    • sand
    • cinders
    • mud
    • straw
    • shavings
    • metal
    • glass
    • rags
    • feathers
    • tar
    • plastics
    • wood
    • underground garbage
    • whole blood
    • paunch manure
    • hair and fleshings
    • entrails
    • slops
    • chemical residues
    • paint residues
    • bulk solids
    • paper products, either whole or ground by garbage grinders
      (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 9.)


    10.04.10 Compliance with existing authority

    A. Unless a written exemption is granted by the Approving Authority, the public wastewater system shall be used by all persons discharging:

    1. Wastewater
    2. Industrial waste
    3. Polluted liquids


    B. Unless authorized by the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology, no person may deposit or discharge any waste included in subsection (a) of this section on public or private property or into or adjacent to any:

    1. Natural outlet
    2. Watercourse
    3. Storm sewer
    4. Other area within the jurisdiction of the city


    C. The Approving authority shall verify prior to discharge all wastes authorized to be discharged and to be received for treatment within the provisions of laws, regulations, ordinances, rules and orders of federal, state and local governments.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 10.)

    10.04.11 Approving Authority requirements

    A. Should discharges or proposed discharges to the public wastewater system:

    1. Deleteriously affect wastewater facilities, processes, equipment, or receiving waters.
    2. Create a hazard to life or health.
    3. Create a public nuisance.

      The Approving authority shall require:
      • a. Pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the public wastewater system
      • b. Control over the quantities and rates of discharge,
      • c. Payment to cover the cost of handling and treating the wastes.


    B. The Approving Authority is entitled to determine whether a discharge or proposed discharge is included under subsection (a) of this section.

    C. The Approving Authority shall reject wastes when it determines that a discharge or proposed discharge does not meet the requirements of subsection (a) of this section.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 11.)

    10.04.12 Approving Authority review and approval.

    A. If pretreatment or control is required, the Approving Authority shall review and approve design and installation of equipment and processes.

    B. The design and installation of equipment and processes must conform to all applicable statutes, codes, ordinances and other laws.

    C. Any person responsible for discharges requiring pretreatment, flow equalizing, or other facilities shall provide and maintain the facilities in effective operating condition at his own expense.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 12.)

    10.04.13 Requirement for traps

    A. Discharges requiring a trap include:

    1. Grease or waste containing grease in amounts that will impede or stop the flow in the public wastewater system.
    2. Oil
    3. Sand
    4. Flammable wastes
    5. Other harmful ingredients


    B. Any person responsible for discharges requiring a trap shall at his own expense and as required by the Approving Authority:

    1. Provide equipment and facilities of a type and capacity approved by the Approving Authority.
    2. Locate the trap in a manner that provides ready and easy accessibility for cleaning and inspection.
    3. Maintain the trap in effective operating condition.
      (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 13.)


    10.04.14 Requirements for building sewers. Any person responsible for discharges through a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall, at his own expense and as required by the Approving Authority:

    A. Install an accessible control manhole
    B. Install meters and other appurtenances to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the waste;
    C. Install safety equipment and facilities (ventilation, steps, etc.) where needed
    D. Maintain the equipment and facilities.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 14.)


    10.04.15 Sampling and testing

    A. Sampling shall be conducted by the industrial discharger according to customarily accepted methods, reflecting the effect of constituents upon the wastewater treatment system and determine the existence of hazards to health, life, limb, and property.

    B. Examination and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes required by the ordinance shall be:

    1. Conducted in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods.
    2. Determined from suitable samples taken at the control manhole provided or other control point authorized by the Approving Authority.


    C. BOD and TSS shall be determined from 24 hour composite sampling, except to detect unauthorized discharges.

    D. The Approving Authority shall determine which users or classes of users may contribute wastewater which is of greater strength than normal domestic wastewater. All users or classes of users so identified shall be sampled for flow, BOD, TSS and ph at least annually.

    E. City may select an independent firm or laboratory to determine flow, BOD, and suspended solids, if necessary. Flow may alternately be determined by water meter measurements if no other flow device is available and no other source of raw water is used. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 15.)

    10.04.16 User charge system

    A. Persons making discharges of sanitary and/or industrial waste into the city of Mayflower, Arkansas, wastewater system shall pay a charge to cover all costs of collection and treatment.

    B. When discharges of any waste into the city of Mayflower, Arkansas, wastewater system are approved by the Approving Authority, the city or its authorized representative shall enter into an agreement or arrangement providing:

    1. Terms of acceptance by the city
    2. Payment by the person making the discharge, in accordance with the User Charge System as established in Sections 8 and 13 of Ord. No. 83-5.
    3. Sewer connection procedures and requirements shall be in accordance with the “Arkansas State Plumbing Code” as amended
    4. A wastewater discharge application approved with connection fee paid.
    5. Construction of sewer service line connections shall be approved by city inspectors prior to any sewer use.


    C. Each user of the wastewater treatment system will be notified, at least annually, of the rate and that portion of user charges which are attributable to the operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment system.


    D. The city will apply excess revenues collected from a class of users to the cost of operation and maintenance attributable to that class for the next year and adjust the rates accordingly.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 16.)

    10.04.17 Saving clause A person or user discharging wastes into the public wastewater system prior to the effective date of this ordinance may continue without penalty so long as the person or user:

    A. Does not increase the quantity or decrease the quality of discharge without permission of the Approving Authority
    B. Has discharged the waste at least two months prior to the effective date of this ordinance
    C. Applies for and is granted a permit no later than 60 days after the effective date of this ordinance.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 17.)

    10.04.18 Conditions or permits
    A. The city may grant a permit to discharge to persons or users meeting all requirements of the savings clause provided that the person or user:

    1. Submit an application within 30 days after the effective date of this ordinance on forms supplied by the Approving Authority
    2. Secure approval by the Approving Authority of plans and specifications for the facilities when required
    3. Has complied with all requirements for agreements or arrangements including but not limited to, provisions for:
      • a. Payment of charges
      • b. Installation and operation of the facilities and of pretreatment facilities, if required,
      • c. Sampling and analysis to determine quantity and strength when directed by the city.
    4. Provides a sampling point, when requested by the city, subject to the provisions of this ordinance and approval of the Approving Authority.


    B. A person or user applying for a new discharge shall:

    1. Meet all conditions of subsection (a) of this section Secure a permit prior to discharging any waste.
      (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 18.)


    10.04.19 Power to enter property
    A. The superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification are entitled to enter any public or private property at any reasonable time for the purpose of enforcing this ordinance.

    B. Anyone acting under this authority shall observe the establishment’s rules and regulations concerning safety, internal security, and fire protection.

    C. Except when caused by negligence or failure of persons or users to maintain safe conditions, the city shall indemnify the persons or users against loss or damage to their property by city employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the persons and growing out of the sampling operation.

    D. The superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification are entitled to enter all private properties through which the city holds a negotiated easement for the purposes of:

    1. Inspection, observation, measurement, sampling or repair
    2. Maintenance of any portion of the sewerage system lying within the easements
    3. Conducting any other authorized activity. All activities shall be conducted in full accordance with the terms of the negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.


    E. No person acting under authority of this provision may inquire into any processes including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the public wastewater system. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 19.)

    10.04.20 Authority to disconnect service
    A. The city may terminate water and wastewater disposal service and disconnect a customer from the system when:

    1. Acids or chemicals which may damage the wastewater system or treatment process are released to the sewer potentially causing accelerated deterioration of these structures or interfering with proper conveyance and treatment of wastewater.


    2. A governmental agency informs the city that the effluent from the wastewater treatment plant is no longer of a quality permitted for discharge to a watercourse, and it is found that the customer is delivering wastewater to the city’s system that cannot be sufficiently treated or requires treatment that is not provided by the city as normal domestic treatment.

    3. The customer:

    a. Discharges waste or wastewater that is in violation of the permit issued by the Approving Authority
    b. Discharges wastewater at an uncontrolled, variable rate in sufficient quantity to cause an imbalance in the wastewater treatment system
    c. Fails to pay monthly bills for water and wastewater system services when due
    d. Repeats a discharge of prohibited wastes to the public wastewater system in violation of Sections 2 through 9 as stated above.


    B. If service is discontinued pursuant to subsection (a) (2) of this section, the city shall:

    • Disconnect the customer
    • Supply the customer with the governmental agency’s report and provide the customer with all pertinent information.
    • Continue disconnection until such time as the customer provides pretreatment/additional pretreatment or other facilities designed to remove the objectionable characteristics from his wastes. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 20)


    10.04.21 Notice. The city shall serve persons discharging in violation of this ordinance with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for satisfactory compliance. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 21.)

    10.04.22 Continuing prohibited discharges. No person may continue discharging in violation of this ordinance beyond the time limit provided in the notice set forth in Section 21. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 22.)

    10.04.23 Penalty
    A. A person who continues prohibited discharges is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $200.00 for each act of violation and for each day of violation.

    B. In addition to proceeding under authority of subsection (a) of this section, the city is entitled to pursue all other criminal and civil remedies to which it is entitled under authority of statutes or other ordinances against a person continuing prohibited discharges. (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 23.)

    10.04.24 Failure to pay
    In addition to sanctions provided for by this ordinance, the city is entitled to exercise sanctions provided for by the other ordinances of the city for failure to pay the bill for water and wastewater system services when due.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 24.)

    10.04.25 Penalty for criminal mischief. The city may pursue all criminal and civil remedies to which it is entitled under authority of statutes and ordinances against a person negligently, willfully or maliciously causing loss by tampering with or destroying the public wastewater system or treatment facilities.
    (Ord. No. 83-6, Sec. 25.)

    10.04.26 Use of public sewers required
    A. Person shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

    B. Public Sewer shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.

    C. Hereafter no sewage and/or toilet facilities shall be constructed or placed in, upon or about any real property situated within the city of Mayflower, Arkansas, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said city, unless such facilities shall be properly connected with a publicly owned or operated sewage disposal system, providing such facility is within 300 feet of any public sewer system.

    D. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.

    E. The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties situated within the city and used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, the property line of which is now or may in the future be within 300 feet of a public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at his sole expense to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this
    ordinance, within ninety (90) days after date of this ordinance.

    F. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to apply to those persons who, by physical impossibility due to the lay of the land, are incapable of complying with the terms of this ordinance.
    (Ord. No. 87-3, Art. 1-2.)

    10.04.27 Penalties
    A. Any person found to be violating any provision of this ordinance shall be served by the city with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactorily correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.

    B. Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any amount not exceeding $100.00 for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.

    C. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall become liable to the city for any expenses, loss, or damage occasioned the city by reason of such violation. (Ord. No. 87-3, Sec. 3.)

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