It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with, tap or
connect to or disconnect from any sanitary sewer in any of the public
streets or highways of the City or with any lateral sewer connection
constructed in connection with any such sanitary sewer without first
obtaining a permit to do so.
Every application for a permit to tap, connect with or disconnect
from any sanitary sewer or any lateral connection constructed in connection
with any sanitary sewer shall be made to the City Engineer, and all
applicants shall obtain from the City Engineer a certificate, in writing,
that such tapping, connection or disconnection can be made without
injury to the sewer system and showing the amount, if any, chargeable
against the property to be connected, of such property's proportionate
share of the original cost of such sewer or of such sewer and such
lateral sewer as may have been constructed therewith, together with
legal interest thereon from the date of construction to the date of
application for tapping or connecting with such sewer or sewer lateral.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer, on application made
to him or her for the privilege of tapping, connection with or disconnection
from any sanitary sewer or lateral connection thereto, to determine
whether the same is proper and practical and, on so determining, to
issue a certificate to that effect, nothing thereon the location of
the property upon which the connection abuts, the City lot number,
the frontage of the lot and the amount of the unpaid sewer assessment
or equitable share charged against that lot, if any, and to keep a
duplicate copy of such certificate in a book or on a stub kept for
that purpose.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
A.
The City Engineer shall, on payment to the City Engineer of $150,
which is the fee for inspection of tapping, connection with or disconnection
from, and the issuance of the permit and the charges assessed against
such sewer, if any, together with legal interest thereon from the
date of construction to the date of application, issue to the person
so applying a permit, in writing, for such sewer tapping, connection
or disconnection.
B.
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to procure a book of blank
permits and duplicates or stubs, and to issue to the person applying
a permit, in writing, and the City Engineer shall note on such stub
or duplicate the date, to whom issued, the location and the amount
of money received, and he or she shall promptly thereafter note on
the Engineer's certificate the date on which the permit was issued
and return such certificate to the City Engineer.
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer and he or she is hereby
directed to open a docket or record in which shall be entered and
docketed a full and complete list of all property subject to the payment
of a tapping fee as hereinbefore provided, in which docket such properties
shall be properly described with relation to lot number as shown in
the City plan, and there also shall be shown all other data necessary
for determining readily whether such property is subject to the payment
of such tapping fees and, if so, the amount thereof. Upon the payment
of any such tapping fee, proper entry of payment and satisfaction
thereof shall be forthwith made upon such docket.
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer promptly to pay over
to the Financial Officer any fee payable to the City under the provisions
of this article and have the Financial Officer receipt for the same
on the stub or duplicate copy of the permit.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
After the permit as required by § 295-3 is granted, it shall be unlawful for such tapping, connections or disconnection to be made by any person except an experienced plumber or sewer worker and then only under the supervision of the City Engineer and in the presence of an authorized representative of the Engineer.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Any person violating any of the provisions of §§ 295-3 through 295-9 of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fee and costs, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days. In the case of any connection or disconnection having been made with any sewer or lateral sewer connection in violation of the provisions of this article, the City Council shall have the right and authority to immediately cut and disconnect any such connection unless the person having made the same shall forthwith pay the amount required for a permit, together with any unpaid assessment or equitable share assessed or charged against that lot for which the tapping, connection with or disconnection from is being made, as well as any cost or expense incurred by the City in examining such connection.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Any person residing within the City desiring to tap into or
otherwise use any sanitary sewer within the City where the cost of
construction of such sanitary sewer is paid for wholly or partially
from City funds shall first be made to pay a sum equal to the proportionate
costs of the City according to the front-foot rule for making assessments
in accordance with an act of Assembly or as previously determined
and contained in an assessment resolution for such constructed sewer.
In the event that any such sewers have been wholly or partially paid
for from City funds and the front-foot rule cannot be applied, the
sum of $600 shall be charged and collected by the Financial Officer
as a tapping fee.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Any person not a resident of the City desiring to tap into or
enter any sanitary sewer in the City either totally assessed against
the abutting property owners or wholly or partially paid for by the
City out of City funds shall pay a sum of $300 to the Financial Officer
before any permit therefor shall be issued by the proper offices of
the City.
An annual service charge, payable in advance to the Financial
Officer, in an amount to be determined by the City Council, will be
made for each tap made by any person not a resident of the City, for
the purpose of defraying the cost of maintenance and other charges
relative to continued operation of the sewage system or a sewage treatment
system and plant when the same is in operation.
