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Code of Rockford
Title 18 Water and Sewers
Chapter 1 Wastewater Disposal
Title 18 Water and Sewers
Chapter 1 Wastewater Disposal
Rockford
Title 18 : Water and Sewers
Chapter 1 : Wastewater Disposal
18-101 : Requirements for proper wastewater disposal.
- It is an offense for a person to unlawfully dispose of water carrying human waste, household or business waste, or to pipe or transmit raw sewage, wastewater, or the effluent from any septic tank except according to the provisions of this chapter.
- Except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, straight pipes, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
- Except as provided in this chapter, the owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the service area in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of that utility, or to have a proper private system installed according to this chapter.
- Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of § 18-101(3) above, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this chapter. (as added by Ord. #091108, Oct. 2008)
Date Last Updated: 01/10/2013
Codification Date: 05/01/2003
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Carl Koella, III
Vice Mayor - Sandra L. Hitson
Commissioner - Jennifer L. Brown
City Manager/Recorder - Terry Willett
Attorney - David T. Black