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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 or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this Chapter and the City's NPDES/SDS Permit. 3. Except as provided hereinafter, 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 wastewater. 4. Requirement to Connect to Public Sanitary Sewer. The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, 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 future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the City, shall be required at the owner(s) expense to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this Code, within `., ninety (90) days of the date said public sewer is operational, provided said public sewer is within 100 feet of the structure generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public sewer shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official thirty (30) day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make said connection. Notwithstanding the foregoing all properties that meet the requirement to connect to Public Sanitary Sewer must connect when the real estate is conveyed or when the existing system fails inspection. 5. Failure to connect to public sanitary sewer. In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sanitary sewer in compliance with a notice given under this Chapter, it shall be deemed a public nuisance and a misdemeanor and shall be punishable upon conviction thereof in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota. 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.