McFarland Municipal Code Ch. 13.08 Municipal Sewer System Connections

The following terms when used in this chapter shall have the following respective meanings:

A. "City" means the city of McFarland.

B. "Municipal sewer system" means the sewer system acquired by the city on dissolution of the McFarland Sanitation District or any additions, replacements, changes or extension of the sewer system.

C. "Person" means any person, firm, company, corporation, partnership, association, any public corporation, political subdivision, city, county, district, the state or the United States of America, or any department or agency thereof. The singular in each case shall include the plural.

D. "Plumbing regulations" mean the regulations of the city established by any plumbing code now or hereafter adopted by the city, the State Housing Act, and such other regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the city by resolution concerning regulation of the work of connection to the sewer system.

(Ord. 69 §1, 1962)

No person owning any premises within the city limits (i) on which the nearest outlet of the plumbing system of such premises is located within two hundred feet from the point at which a connection can be made to the municipal sewer system, or (ii) having no plumbing system but in which plumbing could be installed with the nearest outlet located within two hundred feet from the point at which connection could be made to the municipal sewer system, and upon which any sewage is produced, shall use any means of sewage disposal other than through the municipal sewer system. Every person owning any premises so located and required to use the municipal sewer system shall connect the premises to the municipal sewer system within sixty days from the date when a main sewer or lateral sewer located within the distance specified above is completed and available for connection to the premises. The city declares that further maintenance or use of cesspools, septic tanks or other local means of sewage disposal on any premises so located shall constitute a public nuisance and may invoke any legal means or the police power to abate the same.

(Ord. 69 §2, 1962)

A. No person whose premises are not now connected with the municipal sewer system shall connect any premises or cause any premises to be connected with the municipal sewer system without first obtaining a permit to do so from the city clerk and paying a connection fee before the permit is issued, the connection fee to be as follows:

1. For each single-family dwelling, and for each family unit of a multiple-family dwelling (other than units described in subdivision 2 of this subsection) and

for each business or industrial building on the same lot, premises or contiguous lots, two thousand four hundred dollars per unit;

2. For each dwelling unit of a hotel, motel, apartment house or similar establishment, two thousand four hundred dollars per connection plus fifty dollars per dwelling unit;

3. For connection of any premises not covered in subdivisions 1 and 2 of this subsection, two thousand four hundred dollars per unit.

B. The above fee shall apply to, and be charged for, each and every connection made to the municipal sewer system.

(Ord. 271 §1(part), 1995: Ord. 197 §1, 1985: Ord. 157 §1, 1977: Ord. 118 §1, 1970: Ord. 69 §3, 1962)

All connections to the municipal sewer system shall be inspected by the building inspector and all work of connection shall be done in accordance with the plumbing regulations.

(Ord. 69 §4, 1962)

Drainage fees shall be charged upon issuance of a building permit payable at the time of issuance or the date of request for utility service. The drainage fee shall be four hundred dollars per lot.

(Ord. 271 §1(part), 1995)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 69 §5, 1962)