Davis Municipal Code Art. 33.01 In General

Note: Prior code history: Code 1964 § 5-4.02.

It is unlawful for any person to maintain on any property within the city any privy or water-closet from which the excrement falls into a vault or drains into a cesspool, or to allow the drainage of any plumbing fixture, situated in any building in the city to flow into a cesspool. The owner or lessee of any lot or parcel of land within this city, upon which there is maintained a watercloset or privy, from which the excrement falls into an open vault shall immediately cause such vault to be filled to the ground level with earth. The provisions of this section, insofar as they affect the maintenance of cesspools, shall not apply in the event there is no sewer main within one hundred fifty feet of any such building from which there is drainage flowing into such cesspool.

(Ord. 2403 § 1, 2013)

At the city's discretion, the public works department may register pretreatment process(es), devices, equipment or structures and may issue BMPs to implement the conditions in this ordinance in lieu of issuing a wastewater discharge permit for facilities not regulated under a National Pretreatment Standard (SIU or CIU) or related statute. This process augments the oversight of facilities that may not warrant a wastewater discharge permit but whose discharge may require occasional oversight by the City.

(Ord. 2403 § 1, 2013)

This chapter establishes the rules applicable to all sewer users who connect and discharge wastewater to the city's POTW.

(Ord. 2403 § 1, 2013)