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09/26/95 13:23 ~'4417425 CITY/ELK RIVER ~002 ~. It shall De unlawiul for any person to pt~cej deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on p~blic or private property within the City or in any area under the Jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or outer objectionable waste. Generally accepted gardening and agricultural practices are not prohibited hereby. 2. In ~hall be unlawful ~o dischar9e to any natural ouuleu within she City or in any area under she jurisdiction of ~he City any sewage or o~her polluted wa~ers, except where ~uitable ~reaumen~ has been provided in accordance with ~he provisions of this ordinance. 3. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construe= or mein~ain a.ny privy, privy vault, septic ~ank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage. 4. The owner of any Duilding or property which is located within the City and from which wastewater is discharged shall be required to connect ~o a public sewer at his expanse within two (2) years from the da~e said public sewer is operational, provided than said public sewer is within three hundred feet of ute surucuure generating was~ewater ~ said public sewer is located in a public right-of-way or easement for sewer purposes adJacen~ ~o 5he property. All future buildings cons~z-~cted ~n property adjacent ~o ute public sewer shall be required ~o immediately connecu to ~he public sewer. If sewer connections are no~ being made pursuant to this paragraph, the City shell serve written no,ice on 5he a~fected property owner stating that if said connection is not made within ninety (90) days after the date of such no,ice, she connection will be made by the City et the expense of the owner and that if u~peid, the cherge for such work will be made a special assessment a~ainst the property concerned. Such assessment, when levied, shall be a lien against said property and shall bear interes~ a~ the legal rate for local improvements and shall be certified to the county Auditor and collecued and remi~ed to the City in the same marker as assessments for local improvements. The rights of the City under this para~raph shall be in addition ~o outer remedial or enforcement rights provided under ~his ordinance. £. No person shall discharge or cause to b~ discharged, directly or indirectly, any stoz111 water, surface water, ~rottndwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, waste from individual sewage treatment systems, or unpolluted coolin~ or 13.7