[Code 1964, § 23-1]
The following definitions of terms shall apply whenever such
terms are used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates
another meaning or unless elsewhere expressly stated for specific
application:
That portion of sewer line required to carry the sewage of
any industrial or commercial establishment from the last point of
sewage entry on the premises to a sewer or to carry the discharge
from any industrial pretreatment facility to a sewer.
Any industrial liquid waste water, garbage or toxic substance
from any industrial process.
Any treatment plant used or intended to be used for the specific
treatment of industrial wastes in which other wastes may or may not
be present; except, that a treatment plant in a public sewage system
shall not be so designated.
Any water-borne waste, industrial waste or human excrement
which may exist or accumulate on any premises.
Any works or device for treatment of sewage.
Any public, semipublic or private lateral or main sewer,
constructed in a street, alley, place or right-of-way, exclusive of
a building or industrial connection sewer.
Any sewage treatment facility, sewer, appurtenance equipment
or any combination thereof used or intended to be used for the purpose
of conveying, treating or disposing of any waste water, industrial
waste or human excrement accumulating on any premises, in the city,
except a "building sewer", as defined in the county plumbing code.
Any water resulting from precipitation mixed with the accumulation
of dirt, soil and other debris or substances collected from the surfaces
on which such precipitation falls or flows.
All regulations of the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District
shall prevail over any sections of this chapter which are in conflict
with such sewer district's regulations.
The city hereby finds, determines and declares that it is necessary
and conducive for the protection of public health, safety and welfare
of the people of the city to provide regulations for the disposal
of human and industrial waste within the city. The purpose of this
chapter is to regulate and control the disposal of human and industrial
waste in the city, to the end that the public health, safety and welfare
of the people of the city will be protected and enhanced and to prevent
the indiscriminate and uncontrolled disposal of human and industrial
waste in violation of recognized public health standards.
[Code 1964, § 23-3]
(a)
Every person, public utility, public agency or institution desiring
to install or enter into a contract for the installation of a public,
semiprivate or private sewerage system or industrial sewer or to make
additions or alterations in any sewage or industrial waste treatment
plant shall make application to and shall receive written approval
from the county health department before proceeding with the proposed
work. The county health department shall conduct such inspections
as may be necessary to insure compliance with the approved plans.
(b)
Every application referred to in this section shall contain three
(3) sets of complete plans and specifications, fully describing such
sewerage system or additions and alterations or extension contemplated
in the application. One (1) set shall be filed with the county health
department. The approval by the county health department may contain
such terms and conditions as may be reasonable and necessary to insure
compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: Sewers are now under the jurisdiction of the
Metropolitan Sewer District.
[Code 1964, § 23-4]
(a)
Every person who owns, maintains or operates any sewage treatment
plant or sewerage system, except an individual home disposal system,
or who removes, disposes or intends to remove, transport or dispose
of any sewage, sludge, industrial waste or human excrement by portable
or mobile container shall hold an unrevoked permit for that purpose
from the city director of public health and sanitation. Such permit
shall be issued by the city director of public health and sanitation
upon application to the city health department and compliance with
the provisions of this chapter and any rule or regulation adopted
under this chapter and upon payment of annual fee of twenty-five dollars
($25.00), payable to the city treasurer and to be deposited by him
in the special deposit fund, and upon delivery to the city of a cash
or corporate bond in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.000).
The cash or corporate bond shall run to the city and shall be conditioned
that the permittee, his agents and servants shall comply with all
of the terms, conditions, provisions, requirements and specifications
of this chapter and the rules and regulations adopted under this chapter.
(b)
Before acceptance, all such bonds shall be approved by the board
of aldermen. If a corporate bond is offered, it shall be executed
by a surety or guaranty company qualified to transact business in
the state. If a cash bond is offered, it shall be deposited with the
city clerk, who shall give his official receipt therefor, reciting
that the cash has been deposited in compliance with and subject to
the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations adopted
under this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-5]
Every building in which plumbing fixtures are installed and
every premises having drainage piping thereon shall connect to a public
sewer, if available. A sewer shall be deemed available when a sewer
line is in place within any street, alley, right-of-way or easement
that adjoins or abuts such premises. When connection is not made to
a sewer, an individual sewage disposal system approved by the city
director of public health and sanitation shall be installed. Any such
installation shall comply with the provisions of the county plumbing
code, the provisions of this chapter and any rule or regulation adopted
under this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-6]
No building or plumbing permit providing for the construction,
alteration of or addition to any structure on a premises not served
by an approved sewer, when such alteration or addition may affect
the volume of sewage, shall be issued by the city engineer without
prior approval of the sewage disposal plans by the county health commissioner
pursuant to article V, section 54(1), of the county charter.
[Code 1964, § 23-7]
It shall be the duty of every person, public utility, or institution
holding a permit to operate a sewerage system or sewage treatment
plant to furnish records for ascertaining compliance with this chapter
as may be required by the city director of public health and sanitation.
[Code 1964, § 23-8]
The city director of public health and sanitation shall cause
to be made such surveys, investigations and studies of sewage, sewerage
systems and streams receiving sewage as may be necessary to determine
that all sewerage systems are installed, operated and maintained in
compliance with the provisions of this chapter and any rule or regulation
adopted under this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-9]
(a)
The city director of public health and sanitation shall promulgate
rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and intent of this
chapter to protect the public health. Such rules and regulations shall
become effective upon approval of the board of aldermen and shall
be filed with the city clerk as a public record. Such rules and regulations
may provide:
(1)
The minimum standards of design for any sewerage system or treatment
facility.
(2)
The minimum standards for operation and maintenance of any sewerage
system or treatment facility and to provide for the revocation of
any permit for failure to conform with the minimum standards.
(3)
For the pretreatment of certain wastes which may injuriously
affect the operation of sewage treatment plants or cause contamination
of surface or ground waters.
(4)
The size of any sewer and the velocity of flow for any sewer
or sewerage system.
(5)
The data to be submitted with an application for construction
of any sewerage system, and provide the manner and terms upon which
such application shall be granted or modified.
(6)
The detailed specifications for cars, vehicles, cans, tanks
or containers and equipment used for the purpose of removing, transporting
or disposing of any sewage, sludge, industrial waste or human excrement
by portable or mobile container.
(7)
The minimum standards for soil porosity, ground water levels,
location and area required for installation of an individual home
sewage disposal system; and the minimum standards for construction
of individual sewage disposal systems where special conditions require
higher requirements than contained in the provisions of the county
plumbing code.
(8)
The minimum standards necessary to prevent injury to the public
health from dangerous and unsanitary conditions resulting from exposed
sewage, sludge effluent or human excreta; contamination of drinking
water; damage to storm water drains and channels; contamination of
streams and their beds and margins, underground water and bodies of
water; storm or surface or process or cooling water in sanitary sewers;
gases, chemicals, oils, sludge and other materials which may clog
or interfere with the operation of sewers or adversely affect the
treatment of sewage; sewage and industrial waste in storm water sewers
bypassing around its treatment plant; contamination of the surface
of the ground with sewage; and interference with the proper treatment
of sewage in treatment plants.
(b)
Any such rule or regulation shall meet the minimum standards of the
state division of health; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed
to prevent the city director of public health and sanitation from
requiring compliance with higher requirements than those contained
herein where such higher requirements are essential to maintain a
sanitary condition.
(c)
Prior to presentation of any such rule or regulation for approval
to the board of aldermen the city director of public health and sanitation
shall give appropriate notice of the proposed regulations, setting
the time and place of a public hearing, and conduct a public hearing
on any proposed rule or regulation. Any hearing required or authorized
herein may be conducted by the city director of public health and
sanitation or such other officer or agent or employee of the city
department of public health and sanitation as the city director of
public health and sanitation may designate. Any such rule or regulation
may be amended or repealed in the same manner as provided for approval.
[Code 1964, § 23-10]
No sewage, human excrement or industrial waste shall be discharged,
deposited or permitted to flow on, in or under the surface of the
ground or into any surface water or ground water flowing through,
in or bordering the city, unless such disposal or condition of sewage,
human excrement or industrial waste meets the standards and requirements
of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-11]
No sewage, human excrement, industrial waste or other material
shall be discharged into any sewer, storm water sewer or drain unless
it conforms to the standards and requirements of this chapter and
any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-12]
No person shall injure or cause to be injured any portion of
any sewer system.
[Code 1964, § 23-13]
No person shall open or enter or cause to be opened or entered
any manhole in any sewer to dispose of garbage or other deleterious
substance or storm or surface waters, or for any other like purpose
not provided for by permits issued under the provisions of this chapter.
[Code 1964, § 23-14]
Any sewage, sludge, industrial waste, human excrement, liquid
putrescible material or liquid toxic material removed, transported
or disposed of in any other manner than as may be provided for by
the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted
under this chapter shall be deemed to be an offensive material dangerous
or prejudicial to the public health and is hereby declared to be a
nuisance.
[Ord. No. 1827, §§ 1 — 3, 8-5-1999; Ord. No. 2654, 12-7-2023]
(a)
Annual fee. There shall remain levied and imposed
on all residential property having six (6) or less dwelling units
an annual fee of twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) to provide funds to
pay the cost of certain repairs for defective lateral sewer service
lines of those dwelling units.
(b)
Repair fund. The funds collected pursuant to this
section shall be deposited in a special account to be used solely
for the purpose of paying for all or a portion of the costs reasonably
associated with and necessary to administer and carry out the defective
lateral sewer service line repairs. All interest generated on deposited
funds shall be accrued to the special account established for the
repair of lateral sewer service lines.
(c)
Eligible costs. The city will pay eligible costs up to a
maximum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) for defective
lateral sewer service line repairs. Any costs in excess of this amount
shall be the responsibility of the owner.
(d)
Additional fund sources. The collector of revenue
of the city may add such fee to the general tax levy bills of property
owners within the city. All revenues received on such combined bill
which are for the purpose of providing for, ensuring or guaranteeing
the repair of lateral sewer lines, shall be separated from all other
revenues so collected and credited to the appropriate fund or account
of the city, as specified above.
