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ORDINANCE NO. 797
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
STILLWATER CITY CODE ~29.03
"REQUIRED CONNECTION TO THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTE "
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STILLWATER DOES ORDAIN:
Section I. Amending. The City Code is amended so that ~29.03 shall hereafter read as follows:
"29.03. REOUlRED CONNECTION TO SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
Subd.1. CONNECTION TO SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM REOUIRED.
1. The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for h man occupancy,
employment, recreation or other purposes and abutting on an right of way in
which there is now located a public sanitary sewer of the city i hereby required
to connect its plumbing facilities directly to the City sewer s stem. A permit
application and connection shall be made within a period of 0 days of receipt
of notification from the Public Works Director.
The Public Works Director must issue notification in any of th following cases:
a. Surface eruption of sewage.
b.
Backup of sewage from the disposal unit into other facilities of the
system.
c. Discharge of a tracer dye from the disposal system.
d. Discharge of a flowing stream of raw or partially trea ed effluent from
the treatment units of the system to the environment.
e. Contamination of ground water by treatment or disp sal units of the
system.
f. Any part of the system located in an area demons rated to exhibit
fluctuations in the ground water or surface water 0 within 3 feet
vertically of the lowest elevation of the system.
g. Any part of the system located in an area having been esignated by the
County Soils Atlas or floodplain maps to be sub ect to seasonal
fluctuations of groundwater or surface water elevatio which are less
than 3 feet in vertical separation from the system.
h. Any conventional onsite disposal system located in an ea designated by
the County Soils Atlas as having soils typically exhib ting percolation
rates slower than 60 mpi.
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Any mounded type of disposal system located in an area designated by
the County Soils Atlas as having soils typically exhibiting percolation
rates slower than 120 mpi.
j. Any type of disposal system located in an area designated by the County
Soils Atlas as having soils typically exhibiting percolation rates faster
than 5 mpi.
k. Any type of disposal system located in an area designated as floodplain
by the County Soils Atlas or other governmental sponsored publication.
1. Any type of disposal system located in an area designated by the County
Soils Atlas as having soils which have typically less than four feet of
separation from bedrock or other impermeable barrier.
m. Any part of the disposal system located in an area closer than 50 feet to
any portion of a public or private water supply.
n. Any system constructed with materials prohibited or of inferior or lesser
quality than that required by the City's onsite sewer ordinance.
o. Any system exhibiting an emission of noxious odors discernible from a
separated distance of 10 feet.
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p. Not later than January 1, 2010.
Subd. 2. APPEAL. The property owner shall be permitted a period of 30 days following receipt
of the notification to request a variance from this section from the City Council. The Council
shall then issue an order suspending or enforcing the Public Works Director's notification within
a further period of 30 days.
Subd.3. IMMEDIATE CONNECTION REOUIRED. Any new building built within the City
which is on property which has City sewer service available must have its plumbing facilities
connected to the City Sewer System upon construction. The use of individual sewage disposal
systems shall not be allowed. In addition, any building in which a municipal water system is
being installed shall be connected to the City Sewer at the same time if the Sewer Service is
available.
Subd. 4. INST ALLA TION OF INDIVIDUAL SEW AGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. No individual
sewage disposal system shall be hereafter constructed without a permit issued by the Council.
In considering a request, the Council shall investigate the feasibility of the extension of the City
Sewer System to serve the property for which the permit is requested. If it finds extension to be
feasible, the Council shall order the extension of facilities in the customary manner.
Subd. 5. PENALTIES AND CONTINUED VIOLATIONS. Any person or firm failing to
observe the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to the applicable penalties therefore. Each and every day that a violation
of this ordinance continues to exist shall constitute a separate violation. "
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Section II. SAVING. In all other ways the City Code shall remain in full force and effect.
Section III. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and publication according to law.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Stillwater this nL day of November
1994.
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Charles M. Hooley, Its Mayor V....
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Modi eldon, ts Clerk
Published: Stillwater Gazette
December 5, 1994
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Stillwater Evening Gazette
PO Box 58,102 S 2nd St, Stillwater, MN 55082
_hone: 612-439-3130 Fax: 612-439-4713
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area ~Jed~liClOdplain by the
CountySOif$AtI8$\or (Ither gCMl/'nment,
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8r$l de$ignattHfbytheCol,lnty So!lsAdas
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than tour le$lol separation froml$droc:k
or other imperme~le bar.rier~
m. Any parrOI thedispo$lll.system5ted
inanal'&a e1O&e1'~SOI~\O II 'por-
tion 01 a public or4>l'ivate.waler s , pply,
n, Any. system. COI'lst.1'\lCed with mllflHi. 'als
prohibited ~ of interior or leS8&r <l!uality
than that rElQIJired by theCity'sOl\Sile ,
sewer Ordinan.e.
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,'.Sl,Ibd.2. .~Thepro~ftY ~n$r shalf
......ll8l'mined a period 0130 days follOWing
N!lIeiIMol the. notifk:e.\ionto (llql-lltsta variance
"-"this section frOm the CitY COun<l:il. The
'CouncH shall then issue at'l order suspending
,or enforcing. the. f!yQlic Works Di$ctor's
l1Q~on withil)ll IlJI1her period 013<l days. .
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.' · illhiCh Is on pr~ which h~ CitY
..... ,~J&r...iqe.avall~em\.lsth velts _
~gfacifttiesco~totheCi Sew-
'ifIr System upon construction. The use of
'lndI\HualseW.di~ systems'slllal! not
J!Ilr~' In tddltioh,;anytlullding ''1 which
~ll mUnicipal water system is belngins'lalled
,shall be connected to the City Sewetat the
:'sametime if the Sewer ServIce is available.
Subd. 4..tHIftlQIVIOUAL
, :."$E~AG~'. . . - -' .: _ - . ''' _NoJn~vid,ual
sewag, disposal system shalf beheteafter
(X)/lStructed Without a permit issued ~ the
Council. In tonsidering a request, theqouncil
shall investigate the leasibllityol theex."sion
01 the City SewwSystem tQsorve thePr'qperty
'for which !fie, perll;lit Is requested. II ~ finds
extensIon to berWsillle. theCounc. shall
order the extension 01 I~ililies io the
cusromarymanmtr. '. '. :
SUb(!..5. PEtlftI.,T1;$ ~~iONT~UEO
VIOlA Ttot:,IS' 'nY'persOl'\ Clt. rm faililllJ to
obSElrvelhe~ol'ftli$Qr(jina~shall -
be guilty ,01 a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereol shall be subject to the
. 'lIPplicable penalties therefore. Each andev8IY '
day that a violation Ctlthi~"dinanoe COI'ltinues
to exisl sh;1I1 cOI'II.liNle~~parate violation."
Section U. $A VI~S lnlit(fir ways !tie City
Code shall remain in lull lorce and elfeel;
Section III. EFFECTIVE PATE. This Ordinance
shall be infl,dl'orce and e~ from and after Its
passage.W\d publication according to law.
Adopted by the City Council 01 the City 01
5.tillwa,ter this 1 st day 01 November,1991.
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