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Title 13 Public Utilities and Services

Chapter 13.03 Sewers

Article III. General Requirements

Section 13.03.0310 Multiple-dwelling Units – Duties of Owners and Occupants
  1. Every owner, agent and/or person in possession, charge or control of any hotel, motel, manufactured home park, condominium, apartment house or other multiple-dwelling unit arrangement has the duty to furnish such fixtures or other adequate means of disposing of wastewater originating from the premises as are approved by the director of wastewater management. This section is supplemental to authority which may be exercised by other City officials.
  1. In cases of hotels, motels, manufactured home parks, condominiums, apartment houses, other multiple-dwelling unit arrangements or any other areas the director of wastewater management deems to require public sewer service, the director of wastewater management may require multiple tenants or the property owners to appoint an agent or agents responsible and accountable to the City for making payment for City sewer service whenever multiple billings are deemed unreliable or inconvenient.
    1. Failure of an agent to discharge any duty imposed by this section does not relieve any property owner, tenant, occupant, customer or any other person of any legal obligation imposed herein and the City reserves all rights and remedies at contract and law.

Date Passed: Monday, October 15, 2007

Effective Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Recodification ORD C34122 Section 1