09.03 - Exhibit 8 - Draft Final Sewer Ordinance

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Section 15 -1.4. UNLAWFUL ACTS 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under jurisdiction, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste. 2. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet any wastewater other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided accordance with subsequent provisions of this Chapter and the s NPDES /SDS Permit. 3. Except as provided hereinafter, it shall be unlawful to net or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other fa • t ded or used for the disposal of wastewater. 4. Reauirement to Connect to Public Sanitary ewi wner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for hi occ ancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater ' arged, and which is situated within the City and adjacent to any street, alley, or right -of -way in which there is now located, or may in the &uture o0ated, a pu blic sanitary sewer of the City, shall be required at the o expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in a with provisions of this Code, within ninety (90) days of the date said is operational, provided said public sewer is within 100 feet of r to generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed p er nt to the public sewer shall be required to immediately conne T h ubh sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to thi ection, n fficial thirty (30) day notice shall be served instructing the c prop owner to make said connection. Notwithstanding the foregoing al •operties that meet the requirement to connect to Public Sanita er mu onnect when the real estate is conveyed or when the existi fails inspection. 5. i to connect to public sanitary sewer. In the event an owner shall t ct to a public sanitary sewer in compliance with a notice given under his er, it shall be deemed a public nuisance and a misdemeanor and shall be fishable upon conviction thereof in accordance with the laws of the State of nesota. The City may make the connection as a means of abating the nuisance and charge the cost back to the offending landowner with such cost to be collected as a user fee and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefited property. Such assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the Auditor of the County of Crow Wing, Minnesota, and shall be collected and remitted to the City in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the City shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement provisions of this Chapter.