Dorris Municipal Code Ch. 13.08 Sewer Service System

Sections:

• Article I. Sewer Connections
• 13.08.010
• Connection required
• when—Traps.
• 13.08.020
• Permit required.
• 13.08.030
• Permit application.
• 13.08.040
• Permit issuance—
• Conditions.
• 13.08.050
• Sewer connection charges.
• 13.08.060
• Monthly sewer rates.
• 13.08.070
• Sewer connection
• standards.
• 13.08.080
• Prohibited discharge.
• 13.08.090
• Maintenance requirements.
• 13.08.100
• Public nuisance declared.
• 13.08.110
• Enforcement.
• 13.08.120
• Rates and charges—
• Adjustment—Billing.
• 13.08.130
• Responsibility for
• payment—Delinquent
• payment.
• 13.08.140
• Refilling of privies, etc.
• required.
• 13.08.150
• Violation—Penalty.
• Article II. Sewer Laterals
• 13.08.160
• Laying of sewer laterals.
• 13.08.170
• Filing of certificate and
• map.
• 13.08.180
• Subsequent connectors to
• pay proportion of
• installation costs.
• Article I. Sewer Connections

Traps. No person, firm or corporation shall con- struct, maintain or suffer to be or remain on his or her premises, or under his or its control, any privy, privy vault, cesspool, urinal, sink, drain or bathtub, unless the same be connected, in case there be a sewer in the street on which such premises are situated within two hundred (200) feet from the nearest boundary line of such pre- mises, with such sewer. Every and all such con- nections with such sewer shall be constructed with a trap or other apparatus which will effec- tually prevent the escape of all gases therefrom. (Ord. 147 § 1, 1963)

No connection shall be made with or to any sewer under any public street or alley in the city, except pursuant to written permit issued by the city clerk. (Ord. 147 § 2(a), 1963)

A. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to make a connection to or with any such sewer pursuant to Section 13.08.010, must make a written application therefor to the city clerk, at the City Hall, setting forth the name of the applicant, the description of the premises for which sewer connection is desired, the date on which connection will be made and the place at which connection will be made. Such applica- tion must be signed by the applicant or, in the case of a firm or corporation, by its duly autho- rized member or agent.

B. At the time of presentation of such application the applicant shall pay to the city clerk the sewer connection charge, hereinafter provided for, in cash. No application shall be accepted, nor any permit issued by the city clerk until such payment is made. (Ord. 147 § 2(b), (c), 1963)

The city clerk, upon the presentation of such application in proper form, and payment of the sewer connection charge, shall issue to the applicant a permit authorizing the desired connection upon the terms and conditions following: A. That no connection to or with any such sewer shall be made except under the direct supervision of the city inspector, or his or her duly authorized representative, and all work performed shall be subject to the approval of the city inspector; B. That no actual physical connection to · constructed or to-be-constructed sewer mains, lines or pipes shall be made by the applicant or the applicant's agent, but that in all such cases the city, by its authorized employee shall make the tap and connect thereto the first joint of sewer pipe, at which joint the applicant shall make his or her connection; the applicant shall furnish all necessary mate- rials for such connection; C. That in no event shall any such sewer connection be made or laid from the connect- ing point to the house or other structure which is to be served at any grade other than that which shall be specified by the city in- spector, in person or by his or her duly au- thorized representative, is directed, upon the presentation to him or her of any such appli- cation, to furnish to the applicant the neces- !53 sary data establishing the grade at which the connecting line shall be laid; D. That no such connecting line shall be laid or constructed otherwise than in confor- mity with specifications of the city plumbing code; E. That no such connecting line so laid shall be covered or backfilled until the same shall have been inspected by the city inspec- tor, or his or her duly authorized representa- tive, and covering or backfilling authorized, which authority shall in no event be given by the inspector until such connection and con- necting line shall conform to the requirements hereof. F. That the applicant shall, promptly upon the approval of the connection and con- necting line, proceed to cover the same and backfill the trench wherein the same shall be laid; the ground over such trench to be re- placed substantially as the same was prior to digging such trench and within the same day that the same was dug out; it being the inten- tion that such trench shall be refilled on the same date that it is opened or dug out. (Ord. 147 § 2(d), 1963)

A. The city council having first consid- ered the cost to the city of the maintenance of its sewer system and of the installation and extensions thereto, finds that sixty-five dol- lars ($65.00), is a reasonable sum to be charged and collected by the city as and for a sewer connection charge and fixes the sum of sixty-five dollars ($65.00) as and for the sewer connection charge, the same to include the first joint connection to such sewer. How- ever, the applicant shall be responsible for digging and the cost thereof of the trench

154 (Revised 8-11) from his or her property to the first joint, at his or her own expense, and the same to be com- pleted and refilled on the same date on which it is dug out. B. Provided, however, in the event the “Y” is connected to the sewer system at the time such sewer system was installed by the city, then and in such event the charge is fixed at the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35.00), instead of the sum of sixty-five dollars ($65.00), as here- inabove set forth. Such charge of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) shall only apply where said “Y” was installed as part of the installation of such sewer system. (Ord. 147 § 2(e) (part), 1963)

The monthly charge for sewer service and use thereof is declared to be in the amount as follows: (Ord. 213 (part), 2008: Ord. 207 (part), 2006: Ord. 203 (part), 2004: Ord. 147 § 2(e) (part), 1963) Sewer 2000 2001 2004 2006 2008 2009+CPI 2010+CPI Residential #1 $11.98 $12.10 $12.53 $12.92 $14.86 $16.30 $17.74 Residential #2 15.08 15.24 15.78 16.27 19.47 22.04

114.64 115.79 119.88 123.60 130.09 136.83 143.84 Commercial #6 144.63 146.08 151.24 155.92 163.40 171.18 179.25

155 (Revised 8-11)

All connections to sewer, pursuant to permit, shall be made in a good and workmanlike man- ner and any connection not so made shall be broken by the city inspector unless promptly modified upon his or her direction so to do. (Ord. 147 § 2(f), 1963)

No person, firm or corporation shall permit the discharge from any privy, privy vault, cess- pool, urinal, sink, drain, bathtub, or private drain or sewer to connect with or run into or upon any street, line or alley of the city, or upon the surface of the ground or upon the property or premises of another. (Ord. 147 § 3, 1963)

A. Every person, firm or corporation who shall keep or maintain any cesspool, drain or conduit within the city (providing connections cannot be made, as provided in Section 13.08.010, with a sewer) in or through which any fetid or offensive substance, whether liquid or solid, is allowed to run, accumulate or remain, and which in its nature is liable from exposure to become offensive to the senses or to health, shall keep the same covered to the depth of not less than two feet in thickness or solid earth. B. No person, firm or corporation shall suf- fer or permit any premises belonging to or occupied by him or her or it, or any cellar, vault, privy, urinal, pool, sewer or private drain thereon or therein, to become nauseous, foul, offensive or prejudicial to public health or comfort. (Ord. 147 §§ 4, 5, 1963)

Any privy, privy vault, cesspool, urinal, sink, drain, bathtub, sewer, conduit or place which does not conform to the conditions and requirements as set forth in this article and any privy, privy vault, cesspool, urinal, sink, drain or bathtub which shall remain unconnected with the sewer as provided in Section 13.08.010 for the space of two weeks after notice from the city inspector, is declared a public nuisance. (Ord. 147 § 6, 1963)

The city inspector is authorized and empow- ered to see that the provisions of this article are carried out and complied with, and if after two weeks’ notice to the party owning or having the same in control, such person, firm or corpora- tion shall fail or neglect to make the changes ordered by the city inspector, the latter may make such changes and the expense shall be at the cost of the party to whom such notice and order shall be given. The collection therefor shall be done in the same manner as provided in this article for the collection of sewer users monthly charge. (Ord. 147 § 7, 1963)

Adjustment—Billing. A. The connection charges set forth in this article and the monthly use charges provided in this article may be readjusted by resolution of the city council. B. The city council may provide by resolu- tion that the rates charged for the use of sewer service shall be collected with the rates charged for water and all the rates shall be itemized, billed upon the same bill, and collected as one item. (Ord. 147 §§ 8, 9, 1963)

Delinquent payment. A. Bills for sewer service shall be paid to the city clerk on or before the tenth day of each

155-1 (Revised 8-11) month for sewer used during that month. If any part of the monthly sewer service bill becomes one month delinquent, the next monthly billing statement shall contain a notice to the effect that, if all amounts owing are not paid by the tenth of the month, the service shall be shut off. The clerk shall grant a fifteen (15) day exten- sion of time for payment, if prior to shutoff the user appears in person at City Hall, and makes written application for an extension. The clerk shall not grant more than one extension without approval of the city council. If payment is not received by the tenth of the month or, in those cases where an extension has been granted, by the twenty-fifth of the month, the service shall be shut off. Thereafter, the services shall only be turned back on after payment in full of all sums due and owing, plus payment of a nonre- fundable reconnection fee. B. The owner of any property upon which city sewer is used shall be responsible for the payment of sewer rates for such service. All rules, rates and regulations provided for the government of sewer service shall apply to the owner of the premises, as well as the tenant. In cases of default in payment of sewer rates, all arrearages, interest, fines and penalties shall attach to the premises where the services were used as a lien. (Ord. 213 (part), 2008: Ord. 147 §§ 10, 11, 1963)

required. All privies, privy vaults, cesspools and sep- tic tanks used by any person, firm or corpora- tion, who is required by this chapter to connect to the sewer system of the city are expressly declared to be a nuisance, and the owner of the premises upon which the same is situated is required to refill such privy, privy vault, and cesspool with earth to a level with surrounding earth surface. Upon being notified by the city inspector to refill any such privy, privy vault, and cesspool, and upon failure so to do within two weeks from date of such notice, it is lawful for the city inspector to have such privy, privy vault, cesspool filled with earth in compliance with this article, and the party owning the prop- erty upon which the same is located shall be charged and required to pay for the same forth- with. Collection thereof may be made in the same manner as provided in this article for the collection of other charges. (Ord. 147 § 12, 1963)

Every person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and upon conviction shall be pun- ished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment in the city jail, for not more than twenty (20)

days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 147 § 13, 1963) Article II. Sewer Laterals

On any street or alley in which no sewer main or sewer lateral has been laid or in- stalled by the city, or in any street or alley in which such sewers or sewer laterals have been laid by the city but are inadequate to carry the flow of sewerage available for dis- position therethrough, the owner or owners of property or properties adjacent to such street or alley may, with the permission of the city inspector, lay therein a sewer lateral of a ca- pacity satisfactory to such city inspector, and connect such lateral to the nearest sewer main or lateral of capacity adequate to handle the flow of such lateral to be installed by such owner or owners. (Ord. 146 § l, 1963)

Within ninety (90) days after the comple- tion of such lateral by such owner or owners, such owner or owners shall file with the city clerk, a certificate setting forth an itemized account of the costs and disbursements of the installation of such lateral, together with a map, dawn to a scale of not less than one inch for each twenty (20) feet of lateral, showing in detail the location and depth below the sur- face of such lateral or laterals. (Ord. 146 § 2, 1963) 156

proportion of installation costs. A. In the event that any such lateral or laterals shall be laid by any owner or owners and such certificate filed with the city clerk within the time above provided, no person or persons may connect to any such lateral or laterals without first paying to and depositing with the city clerk of the city an amount suf- ficient to pay the proportion of the original costs and disbursements for the installation of such a lateral or laterals to which such person proposes to connect which such person would have paid had he or she joined in the original installation, or upon the basis of the pro rate cost of installation divided among any other persons who may theretofore have connected thereto and paid their pro rate proportion of the cost of such installation. B. Upon the deposit of such amount with the city clerk the city clerk shall pay to the original installer or installer of such lateral and to any person or persons who may there- tofore have connected to such lateral, pursu- ant to the terms hereof, the proportionate amount to which each of such owner or own- ers and subsequent connectors shall be enti- tled. In the event that original installer or connector shall not then be the owner of such property. (Ord. 147 §§ 3, 4, 1963)