§ 26.50.040. General conditions of service.

A.

Customers accepting sanitary sewer service must agree to abide by the rules and regulations established in the duly approved AWWU Wastewater Tariff and by those set forth in this Code, including those alterations or amendments which may be made from time to time. The utility reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in wastewater discharge permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the municipal sewerage system.

B.

All users receiving sewer service are obligated to pay for such service in accordance with the applicable rate schedule as set forth in the approved AWWU Wastewater Tariff. However, in the case of a landlord/tenant relationship, the property owner will be held liable for all unpaid billings to the premises.

C.

Failure to receive a sewer billing for any given period of time does not relieve the customer of the responsibility for full payment for service provided. In the case of a failure by the utility to render a bill to the customer, back payments shall be limited to the most recent six-month period.

D.

The utility may enter the facilities of any user to determine whether compliance with the requirements of this Code and any wastewater discharge permit or order issued hereunder is being met and whether the user is complying with all requirements thereof. The user shall allow the utility or its representatives, upon presentation of credentials of identification, ready access to all parts of the premises of the user at all hours for the purposes of inspection, sampling or records examination and copying, and the performance of additional duties. The utility will have the right to set upon the discharger's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and metering operations. Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the utility and shall not be replaced without written utility approval. The cost of clearing such access shall be borne by the user.

E.

No user shall install a sewer extension without a checkvalve if the lowest outlet in the building to be served is below the elevation of the top of the manhole nearest the service connection. Checkvalves are required in all existing sewer extensions if the lowest outlet in the building connected to the sewer is below the elevation of the top of the manhole nearest such service connection.

F.

No user shall install a sewer extension without providing a cleanout outside the building to be served, and, if the sewer extension consists of a pipe longer than 100 feet between the sewer main and the building to be served, without installing additional cleanouts at intervals not exceeding 100 feet. If the pipe connecting the sewer main to the building to be serviced changes direction in any manner exceeding 45 degrees in one bend, or two or more bends placed in an interval of not greater than ten feet, additional cleanouts for each such change of direction shall be installed.

G.

The customer is responsible for all frozen sewer connections and extensions, unless otherwise provided in the AWWU Wastewater Tariff or this Code.

H.

When required by the utility, any commercial or industrial user shall install a suitable control manhole on his property to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of wastes. Such manhole, when required by the utility, shall be accessible and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the utility. Installation and maintenance expense shall be the responsibility of the property owner.

(AO No. 81-207; AO No. 86-118, 9-4-87; AO No. 86-119; AO No. 2000-129(S), § 6, 11-21-00; AO No. 2012-77, § 4, 8-7-12)

Note— Formerly § 26.50.021.