§ 51.06. PRIVATE DISPOSAL FACILITIES.

(A) Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of § 51.05 (E), the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this section.

(B) At any house, building, or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city and where there is installed a water carriage sewage disposal system which is not connected to a proper public sewer system, there shall be established, installed, or constructed and maintained at no expense to the city, a private sewage disposal system which shall comply with the recommendations of the Indiana State Board of Health.

(C) At any house, building, or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city and where there is installed a privy, said privy shall be of the sanitary type, and shall be constructed and maintained at no expense to the city to comply with the recommendations of the Indiana State Board of Health.

(D) No new construction or installation of a combined sewer or privy shall be permitted within the city.

(E) Should any defect occur in any private water carriage sewage disposal system or privy which would cause said sewage disposal system or privy to fail to meet the requirements in (B) or (C) above, the defect shall be corrected immediately by the owner or agent of the owner or the occupant or agent of the occupant, at no expense to the city. Failure on the part of the owner or agent of the owner or the occupant or agent of the occupant to do so shall be a violation of this chapter.

(F) Wherever a public sewer becomes available to a house, building, or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, served by a private sewage disposal system or privy as provided for in § 51.05 (E), situated within the city, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer, and any septic tanks, seepage pits, privy pits, and similar sewage disposal and treatment facilities shall be abandoned and filled in a safe and sanitary manner.

(G) Within 30 days after receiving an official order in writing from the City Engineer, the owner, agent of the owner, the occupant, or agent of the occupant of the property shall comply with the provisions of this chapter set forth in the official order of the City Engineer, except as provided for in § 51.05 (E). The official order shall be served on the owner and the occupant or on the agent of the owner, but may be served on any person who, by contact with the owner, has assumed the duty of complying with the provisions of an official order.

(H) Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system, the owner or agent of the owner shall obtain a written permit from the Board of Public Works and Safety. The application for such permit shall be made to the Clerk-Treasurer on a form furnished by the city, which the applicant shall supplement by any plans, specifications, and other information as deemed necessary by the Board of Public Works and Safety. A permit and inspection fee in an amount determined by the Board shall be paid to the Clerk-Treasurer at the time the application is filed.

(I) A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. He shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction and, in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the City Engineer when the work is ready for final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered. The inspection shall be made within 48 hours of the receipt of notice by the City Engineer.

(J) No person shall deposit waste products of septic tanks, cesspools, dry well, privies, or other waste disposal systems into the sewage disposal system of the city except at a point or points designated for such deposits by the Board of Public Works and Safety.

(K) Any person depositing any waste products referred to in (J) above into the sewage disposal system shall pay a fee to the city of $.50 per 100 gallons of waste products so deposited, payable at the office of the Clerk-Treasurer at such times as designated by the Board of Public Works and Safety.

(L) Every person so depositing waste products referred to in (J) above into the sewage disposal system shall be subject to inspection by officials designated to make such inspections by the Board of Public Works and Safety, and said persons making such inspections shall have the right to require any person depositing said waste products in the sewage disposal system to meet proper sanitation requirements in the delivery and depositing of said waste products.

(M) At any house, building or property as referred to in division (C) above, the Greenfield Wastewater Utility may conduct a Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project in any part of the city in order to remove inflow and infiltration sources. The Greenfield Wastewater Utility reserves the right to enter onto private property in order to replace all or any private laterals in the rehabilitation area, at no cost to the homeowner or business property owner with notification. Prior to initiation of reuse of the new lateral to the rehabilitated sewer main, the utility reserves the right to inspect the home or business property, including all structures, through a representative of the Superintendent, to search for sources of inflow and infiltration as shown in § 51.08(B). It shall be the property owner’s responsibility to remove these sources of inflow and infiltration at no cost to the city. The property owner, as stated in division (C) above, shall maintain the new lateral and retain ownership thereof, once reuse has commenced.

(N) Residing homeowners may request assistance from the Greenfield Wastewater Utility through a Private Lateral Repair and/or Replacement Application only in the case of a total lateral failure. Upon review and approval of such an application by the Greenfield Wastewater Utility Superintendent, and only after proper information has been supplied by the property owner, and if sufficient funds are available in the Greenfield Wastewater Utility Budget line item 419, a private lateral may be repaired or replaced at no expense to the property owner, even if it is outside of the provisions of division (M) as stated above. The property owner, as stated in division (C) above, shall maintain the new lateral and retain ownership thereof, once reuse has commenced.

(Ord.1965-3, passed 1-20-65) ('66Code, § 33.03; Am. Ord. 1977-22, passed 11-10-77; Am. Ord. 2008-20, passed 6-25-08) Penalty, see § 51.99