[R.O. 2008 §710.010; Code 1968 §28-5; CC 1988 §29-26]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in parts per
million by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping for a drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage
pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City or its authorized representative.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning,
cooling, refrigeration or other, but shall be free from odor and oil.
It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce B.O.D.
or suspended solids in excess of ten (10) parts per million by weight.
Water-borne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels,
office buildings, factories and institutions) free from storm surface
water and industrial wastes.
Any artificially constructed open channel, ditch, swale or
flume, whether lined or unlined, for the conveyance of stormwater
and ground water.
Every refuse accumulation of solid animal, fruit or vegetable
matter that attends to the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or
storing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any treatment plant device or facility used or intended to
be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other
wastes may or may not be present.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
The person duly authorized by the City to inspect and approve
the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public
sewer system.
Any outlet for drainage of stormwater into a watercourse,
stream, creek, river, pond, lake or other body of surface or ground
water.
Waters or wastes having a five (5) day biochemical oxygen
demand not greater than three hundred (300) parts per million, by
weight, and a concentration of suspended solids not in excess of three
hundred fifty (350) parts per million by weight.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (½)
inch in any dimension.
A sewer owned and maintained by the City.
A sewer designated and intended to receive and convey only
sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
A device or facility for treating or disposing of sewage
and industrial wastes from a school, public building, institution,
church, hotel, motel or other building or structure not classified
as private.
The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings
and institutional and industrial establishments, singularly or in
any combination, together with such ground, surface and stormwaters
as cannot be avoided.
Any arrangement of devices and structures carrying sewage.
Any public, semi-private or private pipe or conduit for carrying
sewage.
Includes any sewage treatment facility, sewer, pumping station,
appurtenance, equipment or any combination thereof used or intended
to be used for the purpose of conveying, treating, or disposing of
any wastewater, industrial waste or human excrement accumulating on
any premises of the City.
Any discharge of water, sewage 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 of
flows during normal operations.
A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only
storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial
wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
The City Administrator or his/her authorized deputy, agent,
or representative.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances
imparting taste and odor in receiving water; toxic poisonous substances
in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous
gases. It shall contain not more than ten (10) parts per million each
of suspended solids and B.O.D. The color shall not exceed fifty (50)
parts per million.
A natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and ground
water in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
All rivers, streams, lakes, and other bodies of surface or
subsurface water which are not entirely confined and retained completely
upon the property of a single individual, partnership or corporation.
[R.O. 2008 §710.020; Ord. No. 6535, 10-13-1997]
A.
The City
of Louisiana by and through City Council hereby ordains as follows:
1.
Each
user/customer of the City of Louisiana sewer system shall be responsible
for construction, alteration, or maintenance of all sewer lines up
to their connection into the main line.
2.
The
City will provide labor for repairs or replacement of sewer line under
paved City streets.
3.
The
main sewer line shall be the property of the City of Louisiana.
4.
The
City will use reasonable efforts to determine whether any stoppage
or defect in the sewer system is within the main line.
5.
The
City shall not be liable for any damage due to stoppage in the main
line.
6.
The
City shall have exclusive control for the repair, alteration, or maintenance
of the main sewer line.
[R.O. 2008 §710.030; Ord. No. 6541, 2-9-1998; Ord. No.
6574 §1, 2-8-1999]
A.
The following
shall be the responsibility of sewer service customers who are provided
sewer service by the City of Louisiana, with said customers to bear
the cost of same:
B.
All work
done in relation to sewer service shall be in accordance with all
applicable ordinances, laws, and guidelines set forth by any local,
State, Federal Government agency to include but not limited to the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Louisiana Public
Works Department.
C.
The City
will provide labor to make repairs on paved street easement.
D.
The City
will maintain all main lines of the City of Louisiana sewer system.
[R.O. 2008 §710.050; Code 1968 §28-6; CC 1988 §29-28]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property
within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City,
any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
[R.O. 2008 §710.060; Code 1968 §28-7; CC 1988 §29-29; Ord. No. 20-2012 §1, 10-10-2012]
A.
Within
ninety (90) days after the effective date of this Section, each hospital,
nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other commercial establishment
that provides food to public shall install and maintain a City approved
grease trap designed to segregate fat, oil, or grease in cooking or
food preparation.
B.
Each
such hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other
commercial establishment that provides food to the public shall be
subject to an annual inspection by the City Building Inspector, or
his/her designee, to insure the proper type, size and efficiency of
such grease trap.
C.
Failure
of any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other
commercial establishment that provides food to the public to possess
a City approved grease trap provided in this Section is a violation.
D.
Failure
to any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other
commercial establishment that provides food to the public to permit
reasonable inspection by the Building Inspector, or his/her designee,
to determine the presence, efficiency and proper maintenance under
this Section is a violation.
E.
Failure
to any hospital, nursing home, restaurant, hotel, motel or any other
commercial establishment that provides food to the public to keep
any grease trap reasonably clean, efficiently operating and free of
clogs or obstructions is a violation of this Section.
F.
It shall
be unlawful to discharge into any sewer system or wastewater treatment
system excessive amounts of fat, oil or grease used in cooking or
food preparation.
G.
Violation
of any provision of this Section shall be punished by a fine not to
exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) and imprisonment in the City
Jail not to exceed ninety (90) days, or a combination of fine and
imprisonment within that range. As part of any finding of guilt for
violation of this Section, the court may require such violator to
pay restitution to the City for the costs, including labor, borne
by the City to repair clogs, obstructions or other damage caused in
whole or part by violation of this Section.
[R.O. 2008 §710.070; Code 1968 §28-9; CC 1988 §29-30]
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human
occupancy, employment or recreation, or other purposes situated within
the City and abutting 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, is hereby required at his/her expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this Chapter, within ninety (90) days after the date of official notice
to do so; provided that, such public sewer is within one hundred (100)
feet of the property line.
[R.O. 2008 §710.080; Code 1968 §28-10; CC 1988
§29-31]
The City and its officers, employees and agents are prohibited
from making or permitting to be made any connection between the water
system of the City and a mobile home or other portable residence unless
such structure is connected with the sanitary sewer system of the
City and such connection is made in accordance with the regulations
of the City, this Chapter and other ordinances of the City.
[R.O. 2008 §710.090; Code 1968 §28-29; CC 1988
§29-32]
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior
foundation drains, areaway drains, yard drains, yard fountains, ponds,
lawn sprays or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to
a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly
or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
[R.O. 2008 §710.100; Code 1968 §28-30; CC 1988
§29-33]
All extension of the sewer system of the City beyond the existing
area of service shall be constructed by contractors in accordance
with specifications of the City, subject to inspection by and approval
of the City, at the expense of the persons applying for the service,
and the same, when constructed, approved and connected to the system
shall become the property of and subject to the control of the City;
provided that, when such installation shall be adapted to the service
of persons other than those bearing the expense of such construction,
the specifications of the City shall require that the sewer so installed
shall be adequate to serve needs of the area and its reasonably anticipated
development; provided further, that the City is, in such event, authorized
to agree to collect and to require the payment of a reasonable connection
charge, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the benefit
of the persons bearing the cost of the construction to the extent
of the cost of such portion of the extension which is of service to
others.
[R.O. 2008 §710.110; Code 1968 §28-31; CC 1988
§29-34]
The City shall require the payment of a connection charge of
one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the use and benefit of the City for
every sewer connection beyond the corporate limits of the City.
[R.O. 2008 §710.120; Code 1968 §28-47; CC 1988
§29-35]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewerage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
