§ 21-7. Prohibited acts.  


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  • The following acts, or the causing thereof, are hereby prohibited:

    (1)

    No sewage, human excrement or industrial waste may be discharged, deposited or permitted to flow on, in or under the surface of the ground or into any surface water or groundwater flowing through, in or bordering the city, unless such disposal or condition of sewage, human excrement or industrial waste meets the standards and requirements of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted hereunder.

    (2)

    No person shall remove, transport or dispose any sewage sludge, industrial waste or human excrement by any portable or mobile container without an unrevoked permit for that purpose from the health commissioner.

    (3)

    No sewage, human excrement, industrial waste or other material shall be discharged into any sewer, stormwater sewer or drain unless it conforms to the standards and requirements of this chapter and any rule or regulation adopted hereunder.

    (4)

    No person shall injure or cause to be injured any portion of any sewer system.

    (5)

    No person shall open or enter, or cause to be opened or entered, any manhole in any sewer to dispose of garbage or other deleterious substance or storm or surface waters, or for any other like purpose not provided for by permits issued under the provisions of this chapter.

(Code 1973, § 20-9)