§ 28-167. Sewer connection required.  


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  • The owners of any houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which it is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary or combined sewer, are hereby required to install, at such owner's expense, suitable toilet facilities therein and a building sewer connecting such facilities directly with the proper public sewer, and to maintain the same all in accordance with the provisions of this article, such compliance to be completed within 30 days after date of official notice from the city to do so, provided that said public sewer is located within 200 feet (61 meters) of the property line of such owner and is of such design as to receive and convey by gravity such sewage as may be conveyed to it. Charges for sanitary sewer service will begin the date of official notice to connect to the public sewer.

(Prior Code, § 95.05)

State law reference

Authority to require connections to sewers, I.C.A. § 354.12(3)f.