[Adopted 12-1-1970 by Ord. No. 1970-6]
As used herein, the following terms shall have
the meanings stated:
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged, and includes,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats,
apartments, stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
Property which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of, such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this municipality. Such
term includes lateral lines from a street main to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
The Dallas Area Municipal Authority or any other agency operating
public sewers for or at the request of the governing body of the municipality.
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the
sewer authority charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice
of that fact to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation
in the municipality, such notice to state that owners of property
accessible to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building
are compelled to make connection therewith pursuant to this Part 3.
A copy of such notice, together with a copy of this Part 3 and any
ordinance then in effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer
rents shall be mailed to each person known to the sewer authority
to own property accessible to such sewer, but failure to mail such
copies or defect in the mailed copies or defect in the mailing thereof
shall not affect the validity of the notice.
A.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which there is an occupied building shall, at his own expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified in § 64-47.
B.
Any person owning property accessible to a public
sewer on which an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at
the time of erection and at his expense, install sanitary facilities
in such building and connect the same to the public sewer.
C.
Persons owning properties accessible to a public sewer
on which there are occupied buildings more than 150 feet from such
sewer and persons owning properties not accessible to a public sewer
who are nevertheless able to arrange for connections thereto through
intermediate properties shall be permitted to make such connection.
