§ 15A-12. Public sewer overflows; public nuisance; abatement orders and cleanup costs.

Any FSE/permittee determined by the city manager to have contributed to a sewer blockage, SSO or any public sewer obstruction resulting from the discharge of wastewater or waste containing FOG, shall subject the property owner to an order to install and maintain a grease interceptor, and may be subject to a plan to abate the nuisance created by sewer line failures and blockages, SSOs or any other public sewer obstruction. SSOs may cause threat and injury to public health, safety, and welfare of life and property and are hereby declared public nuisances.

Furthermore, SSOs caused by FSEs alone or collectively, are the responsibility of the property owner, FSE/Permittee, and individuals who are responsible officers or owners of the FSE. If the city manager determines that the public health and safety require the city to act immediately to contain and clean up any SSO caused by blockage of a private or public sewer lateral or system serving an FSE, or if the city so acts at the request of the property owner and/or the operator of the FSE, or because of the failure of the property owner or FSE to abate the condition causing immediate threat of injury to the health, safety, welfare, or property of the public, the city's costs for such abatement shall be entirely borne jointly and severally by the property owner, FSE/permittee, and individuals who are responsible officers or owners of the FSE and may constitute a debt to the city, due and payable upon the city's demand for reimbursement of such costs.

(Ord. No. 493, § 2, 11-5-2013)