[Adopted as Ch. 63, Art. I, of the 1967 Code]
No person shall cast or throw any filth or other
debris into any City watercourse or sewer or dam up or obstruct the
same in any way.
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Editor's Note: Original § 63-1,
Water bill payment, which immediately preceded this section, was deleted
7-17-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-39.
If any owner of any lot or the occupant of any lot within the corporate or sanitary limits of the City shall willfully obstruct or allow to be obstructed in any manner, either by filth or otherwise, any watercourse, drain or sewer passing over or through such lot and shall permit such obstruction to remain for a longer period than 24 hours, such owner or occupant shall be fined as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, of this Code, and the trial magistrate who shall impose such fine and cost shall proceed immediately to order such watercourse, drain or sewer cleaned and relieved from any such obstruction and collect all costs and expenses thereof in the name of the Mayor and Council of the City from either the owner or occupant of such lot.
Any person who shall place or cause to be placed in any open stream or sanitary sewer manhole the contents of any privy or who shall permit any filth or excrement to flow from any hogpen, stable or manure pile or from any other place upon his lot or premises into any open stream or sanitary sewer manhole shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, of this Code.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning,
occupying or residing in any house, building or premises situated
within the corporate limits of the City to cause, suffer or permit
any water of any character whatsoever to issue, be thrown, be discharged
or flow from any house, building or premises or through or by means
of a pipe or otherwise or to flow from any pump, hydrant, cistern,
spigot or pipe located in and upon any such house, building or premises
in such a manner as to be discharged, issued, thrown or diverted directly
or indirectly into, upon or over any sidewalk, gutter, street, lane
or alley of the City; provided, however, that such person shall be
permitted to use clean water for washing down the front of any building
or house, the windows thereof, storefronts and store windows of any
such building or house of the City from the first day of April to
the 30th day of September, inclusive, in each and every year.
