§ 51.02. UNLAWFUL DISCHARGES.

(A) 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 the jurisdiction of the city, any human excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.

(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer or combined sewer, either directly or indirectly, stormwater, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial process water. The city shall require the removal of unpolluted wastewater collection or treatment facility if the removal is cost effective and in the best interest of all users of those facilities.

(C) Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial process water may be admitted to storm sewers which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall use these sewers, however, without the specific permission of the city. No new connection shall be made unless there is capacity available to all downstream sewers, lift stations, force mains, and the sewage treatment plant, including capacity for BOD and suspended solids.

(D) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner, on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the city, any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter and the NPDES Permit.

(E) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter and the NPDES Permit.

(F) 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 located in a public sanitary or combined sewer of the city.

(G) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now is hereby required at his or her expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect the facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 60 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line.

(‘89 Code, § 100.02) Penalty, see § 10.99