§ 24-321. Use of sewer service mandatory.

The board does hereby officially find that it is necessary for it to require customers to connect to the water or sewer system when the board has furnished water or sewer service to the same area (see section 24-232). The board does officially find that it has combined its water and sewer rates and that when both services are available it will make a combined charge for the two services. If any water customer of the board also has available sewer service and has failed or refused to connect to such service, the board does hereby levy a charge per month of an amount which would be based on water consumption as provided in Appendix A hereof as a part of the combined water and sewer rate for the purpose of defraying a portion of the cost of making such sewer service available to the water customer, such charge to become due when the water or sewer service becomes available to the customer. If any customer of the board has only sewer service available, such customer shall be charged a flat monthly sewer rate as specified in Appendix A.

(1)

All houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes shall be provided, by the owner thereof, with at least one toilet. All toilets shall be kept clean and in a sanitary working condition.

(2)

No person shall dispose of human excrement except in a toilet.

(3)

It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the county, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said board, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this article.

(4)

Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.

(5)

The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the board's jurisdiction and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sewer of the board, is hereby required at the owner(s) expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein.

(6)

All sinks, dishwashing machines, lavatories, basins, shower baths, bathtubs, laundry tubs, washing machines, and similar plumbing fixtures or appliances shall be connected to the public sewer; provided, that where no sewer is available, septic tanks or other private sub-surface disposal facilities, approved by the Okaloosa County Health Department and the board may be used.

(7)

Customer shall be notified when sewer is available.

a.

Sewer shall be considered available to an existing single-family dwelling when the dwelling can be connected by gravity flow or lift station to a line in any public right-of-way or easement which passes the property at any point.

(8)

Sewer connection is mandatory, subject to the provisions of section 24-211, within 90 days' notice of sewer availability. The prevailing sewer rate will be billed to all customers not connected within 90 days.

(9)

Any residence or business not connected to the sewer within 90 days of notice of availability shall be subject to the placement of a lien on the property.

(10)

In cases of residential or business property, the board may, at its discretion, refuse to continue the water service until the owner pays the sewer capacity expansion charge or arranges to pay the same. Service to tenants is subject to this provision.

( Ord. No. 16-16 , § 1, 9-6-16)