A. Deposit prohibited on public or private property. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited any sewage or wastewater on public or private property within the City.

B. Discharge to natural outlet or watercourse. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet or watercourse within the City or in any area within the jurisdiction of the City any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment as defined by state and federal regulation and/or in accordance with the City's NPDES permit has been provided in accordance with the provisions of this article.

C. Construction of private disposal prohibited. Except as provided in this article, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, holding tank, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage, within the corporate limits of the City.

D. Installation of and connection to disposal system required. The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes and which, by nature of its use, generates sanitary sewage or other water-carried waste which is amenable to conventional treatment processes, situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located a public sanitary sewer, are by this article, required at their expense to install suitable toilet facilities in the premises and to connect the facilities, either new or existing, directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article within 90 days after date of official notice by the Council to do so, provided that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the owner's property line, except where the Council determines that the connection is not feasible due to topography or subsurface conditions or is economically prohibitive for the property owner to construct or the City to maintain. At the time any real estate served by a private disposal system is sold, the deed, contract for deed, or other instrument of conveyance must be presented to the City Clerk/Treasurer for approval and verification that this provision is complied with. The City Clerk/Treasurer shall not approve any sale if the property is within 300 feet of public sewer and not connected as required by this article.

E. Failure to connect. If an owner fails to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a notice given under Subsection D, the City shall undertake to have the connection made and shall assess the cost of the connection against the benefited property. The assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the Council and shall be certified to the County Auditor of the County of Wabasha, Minnesota, and shall be collected and remitted to the City in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the City shall be in addition to any penalties or remedial or enforcement provisions of this article.