Chapter 13.15
SEWER
Sections:
13.15.010 Application for connection.
13.15.020 Unauthorized connections.
13.15.030 Unlawful connections.
13.15.040 Unlawful to injure sewer or discharge inflammable or injurious matter therein.
13.15.050 Obstruction.
13.15.060 Manholes.
13.15.070 Discontinuance of privy vaults and cesspools.
13.15.080 Rate schedules and connection fees.
13.15.090 North Davis County Sewer District regulations.
13.15.010 Application for connection.
Applications for sewer connections must be made in writing by the owner of the premises to be served, or his authorized agent, and must be accompanied by a plan, showing the reason for the connection, its size and the size and location of all branches and facilities to be connected with it. Connection fees must be paid before the connection is made. [Code 2000 § 9-5-1].
13.15.020 Unauthorized connections.
No person shall connect to the sewer system without first obtaining authorization from the city or sewer district and no connection shall be made to the sewer unless the plumbing and the building to be serviced shall comply with the requirements of the rules and regulations adopted. It shall be unlawful for any person to connect to the sewer system or cause a connection to the sewer system to be made or to commence or carry on the work of laying, repairing, or altering any pipe connecting with the sewer without having obtained authorization to do so from the city or sewer district. [Code 2000 § 9-5-2].
13.15.030 Unlawful connections.
It shall be unlawful for any person to connect with the sewer system any drain or pipe which discharges rain water, cellar, basement or sump pump, or surface water, or the contents of any spring, flowing well, creek, ditch or other watercourse without a special permit from the sewer district. No boiler or heating plant shall be directly connected to the sewer system. The overflow from boilers to heating plants, when cooled to a temperature not to exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit, will be allowed to run into a sump, said sump to be connected to the sewer. The discharge of the contents of waste pipes from water filters, gas engines, air compressors, vacuums or dry cleaners, laundries, garages, wash racks, stores or warehouses containing inflammable substances, car barns, buildings for the stabling or keeping of horses, cows and other animals, and all similar establishments shall not be made into or connected with the sewer system unless such contents are discharged into settling tanks properly trapped and vented, said tanks to be of a construction approved by the sewer district and to be at all times subject to its inspection and approval or condemnation. Upon condemnation by the sewer district, the effluent from said tanks shall not be allowed to flow into sewers until satisfactory alterations have been made and the construction approved by the sewer district. [Code 2000 § 9-5-3].
13.15.040 Unlawful to injure sewer or discharge inflammable or injurious matter therein.
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, break or remove any part or portion of the sewer or of any sewer appliance or appurtenance, or to discharge into the sewer any inflammable gas, gasoline, oil or petroleum byproducts or any calcium carbide or residue therefrom, or any other matter which by chemical reaction shall injure said sewer or any part thereof or become dangerous to health, life or property, or any liquid or other material or substance which will evolve in inflammable gas when in contact with water, sewage or fire. Oil separators installed in any building where volatile fluids are used must not be connected directly with the sewer. [Code 2000 § 9-5-4].
13.15.050 Obstruction.
It shall be unlawful for any person to empty or discharge into the sewer system any solids, garbage or other similar matter without first treating the same in a manner approved by the sewer district or to discharge in the sewer system any matter or thing likely to obstruct the sewer. [Code 2000 § 9-5-5].
13.15.060 Manholes.
It shall be unlawful for any person to open any sewer manhole without permission from the city or sewer district. [Code 2000 § 9-5-6].
13.15.070 Discontinuance of privy vaults and cesspools.
A. It shall be unlawful for the owner, or his agent, or any other person having charge of or occupying any property located upon any street, alley, court, passageway or area in the city and within 300 feet of the sewer system situated in any such court, street, alley, passageway or area in the city to maintain or use or cause or permit to exist any privy vault, septic tank or cesspool on such property. The sewer district or the health department shall cause notice to be served upon the owner, agent or occupant of such premises to disconnect all plumbing from any cesspool or septic tank and to fill all cesspools and privy vaults with fresh earth and to remove all seats from privies and to connect all plumbing therein with the sewer system.
B. It shall be unlawful for the plumbing on any premises within the area above described to remain unconnected to the sewer system for more than 60 days after such sewer system is ready to receive connections therewith. In the event that notice is served upon persons violating the requirements of this section, and they fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of the same within 60 days, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Code 2000 § 9-5-7].
13.15.080 Rate schedules and connection fees.
Rate schedules and connection fees deemed necessary or expedient shall be adopted by the city council by resolution without publication thereof and all such schedules and fees whether heretofore or hereafter adopted shall become effective and operative upon adoption thereof by the city council. [Code 2000 § 9-5-8].
13.15.090 North Davis County Sewer District regulations.
A. There is hereby adopted by the West Point city council by reference that certain code known as the “North Davis County Sewer District Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations,” dated June 9, 1983, and all amendments thereto, for the purpose of prescribing requirements, standards, and criteria for pretreatment of industrial wastewaters and industrial sewage and all other waters requiring pretreatment prior to being inducted into the sewage collection facilities of the city and the sewage collection facilities and treatment plant of the North Davis County Sewer District and prescribing other rules and regulations pertaining to the collection and treatment of sewage and the whole thereof of said “Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations” is hereby adopted save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended, of which code not less than three copies have been and now are filed in the office of the West Point city recorder and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of West Point City.
B. Wherever the words “city,” “district,” “manager,” or similar terms referring to the North Davis County Sewer District or its personnel shall be used, and the context of such usage would so indicate, such terminology shall refer to West Point City and/or its comparable personnel functioning within West Point city government.
C. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the “Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations” hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, shall severally for each and every such violation or noncompliance, respectively, be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or by imprisonment for not more than six months in the case of persons and in the case of a corporation, association, partnership, or governmental instrumentality, a fine not to exceed $2,000. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each day that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
The charging of a criminal offense, conviction and imposition of sentence shall not in any way preclude the city from pursuing civil remedies.
D. The North Davis County Sewer District, by and through its authorized and designated officers, agents, servants and employees, is hereby authorized and designated to monitor and enforce compliance with this chapter and the “North Davis County Sewer District Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations” adopted by this chapter and for such purpose is authorized to inspect premises, books, records of users, and do all other things necessary which it deems legal and proper, unless otherwise directed by the city, in accordance with law and the terms and provisions of said “North Davis County Sewer District Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations” in connection with the monitoring and enforcement of the terms and provisions thereof.
E. In the event any industrial user should violate any of the terms and provisions of the “North Davis County Sewer District Wastewater Control Ordinance – Rules and Regulations” thereby resulting in a fine or penalty being assessed against West Point City and/or the North Davis County Sewer District by the Environmental Protection Agency or any other state or federal agency, such violating industrial user shall be responsible for payment of such penalty or fine to West Point City and/or the North Davis County Sewer District in the same amount of such fine or penalty as may be levied against the West Point City or the North Davis County Sewer District. [Code 2000 § 9-5-9].