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Show AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE DISCHARGE OF VOLATILE VOL-ATILE FLUIDS AND OTHER HARMFUL LIQUIDS AND MATERIALS INTO THE CITY SEWER SYSTEM OR DAMAGING DAM-AGING THE SYSTEM, TO BE KNOWN AS TITLE 9, CHAPTER 3, SECTIONS 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, AND 43. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PLEASANT GROVE CITY, UTAH AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 9-3-36: Injuring sewer prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, break or remove any part or portion of any sewer or of any sewer appliance or appurtenance. appur-tenance. SECTION 9-3-37: Supervision by city engineer: The entire sewer system shall be under the immediate care, supervision and control of the city engineer. SECTION 9-3-38: Unlawful to discharge into sewer. Volatile Vola-tile fluids. It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge into a sewer any inflammable gas, gasoline or oil, or any calcium carbide or residue therefrom, or any liquid or other material or substance which will evolve an inflammable gas when in contact with water, sewage or fire. Oil separators installed in any building where volatile fluids are used must not be connected con-nected directly or indirectly with a sewer. SECTION 9-3-39: Water drainage. It shall be unlawful for any person to connect with a public sanitary sewer any drain or pipe which discharges rainwater, cellar or surface water, acids, alkalis, lye, or other injurious liquids, or the contents of any spring, flowing well, creek, ditch or other water course. SECTION 9-3-40: Laundry wash water. The wash water from laundries where operating commercially, and all similar establishments, shall not be permitted to discharge into sanitary sewers except in cases where storm sewers are not located in the streets on which the laundry or other similar establishment is adjacent to or abuts thereon, and then only by permission of the board of commissioners. SECTION 9-3-41 : Boiler and heating plants. No boiler or heating plant shall be directly connected to the sanitary sewer. These require special traps to be inspected by the engineering department. The overflow or blow offs from boilers or heating plants, when cooled to a temperature not to exceed one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit, will be allowed to run into a sump, specified by engineering departments, said sump to be connected to the sewer. SECTION 9-3-42: Waste Pipes from Enumerated Establishments. Establish-ments. The discharge of the contents of waste pipes from water filters, gas engines, air compressors, vaccum or dry cleaners, garages, wash racks, stores or warehouses containing inflammable inflamm-able substances, car barns, buildings for the stabling or keeping of horses, cows and other animals, dairy products or plants using milk or processing milk products, and all similar establishments, shall not be made into or connected with a sanitary sewer, unless un-less such contents are discharged into settling tanks properly trapped and vented, said tanks to be of a construction approved by the city engineer, and to be inspected before cement is poured, and at all times subject to his inspection and approval or condemnation. Upon condemnation by the city engineer, the sewage from said tanks shall not be allowed to flow into the sewer until satisfactory alterations have been made and the construction approved by the city engineer. SECTION 9-3-43: Obstructing material. It shall be unlawful unlaw-ful for any person to empty or discharge into a public sanitary sewer any garbage, refuse, night soil or other similar matter, or any substance solid or liquid other than the waste products for which said sewer is provided. In the opinion of the City Counci, it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health and safety of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City that this Ordinance take effect upon its first publication. 1 This Ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and first publication. Passed by the City Council of Pleasant Grove City this 1 8th day of March, 1 968. PAUL T. FORDHAM ATTEST: Mayor STATE OF UTAH ) County of Utah ) ss. I, Millen D. Radmall, City Recorder of Pleasant Grove City, Utah, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the City Council of Pleasant Grove City, Utah, on the 1 8th day of March, 1968, entitled "An Ordinance Prohibiting the Discharge of Volatile Fluids and Other Harmful Liquids and Materials Into the City Sewer System or Damaging the System to be known as Title 9, Chapter 3, Sections 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of Pleasant Grove City, Utah, this 18th day of March, 1968. MILLEN D. RADMALL (SEAL) Pleasant Grove City Recorder |