Chapter 13.50
SEWER STOPPAGE AND REPAIR

Sections:

13.50.010    Responsibility for repair and maintenance.

13.50.010 Responsibility for repair and maintenance.

(1) The city shall be responsible for the repair and maintenance of all main sewer lines and the property owner concerned shall be responsible for the repair and maintenance of the lateral connection to the main sewer line (from the point of entry to the house or building to the connection with the main line).

(2) Where repairs or maintenance are necessary to a lateral line, the property owner shall employ at his expense qualified persons to effect such repairs, but in the event any excavation for such repair or maintenance is necessary on public property, this excavation and refill and repaving, if necessary, shall be done by city personnel at the expense of the property owner whose lateral line is affected.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, however, if the maintenance or repair needed to a main line is caused by an agency owned, under control of or constructed upon the property of the owner, such as, but not limited to, roots of trees situated upon private property which invade the main, such cost of repair or maintenance shall be reimbursed to the city by the property owner concerned.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, however, if the maintenance or repair needed to a lateral line is caused by the faulty installation of the lateral line by the city under public property, such cost of repair or maintenance shall be reimbursed to the property owner by the city. (Code 1985, § 22-42; Ord. 5-13-87).