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HomeMy Public PortalAbout00027REPEALED BY ORDINANCE NO. 111 SEE ORDINANCE NO. 109 O R D I N A N C E NO. 27 AN ORDINANCE to regulate and control the disposal of human and industrial waste in The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; authorizing the Executive Director to promulgate rules and regulations subject to approval by the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; providing conditions upon which connections to sewers may be required; providing penalties for the violations of this Ordinance; and declaring the intent of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as to the severability of all parts of this Ordinance. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. The Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District finds, determines and declares that it is necessary and conducive for the protection of public health, safety and welfare of the people of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to provide regulations for the disposal of human and industrial waste within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. The purpose of this Ordinance is to regulate and control the disposal of human and industrial waste in The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, to the end that the public health, safety and welfare of the people of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District will be protected and enhanced and to prevent 2 the indiscriminate and uncontrolled disposal of human and industrial waste in violation of recognized public health standards. Section Two. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be in effect in all parts of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Section Three. For the purpose of this Ordinance certain words and terms are defined as follows: DEFINITIONS: The following definitions of terms shall apply unless the context clearly indicates another meaning or unless elsewhere expressly stated for specific application. DISTRICT shall mean The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. SEWERAGE SYSTEM shall mean and include any sewage treatment facility, sewer, appurtenance, equipment or any combination thereof used or intended to be used for the purpose of conveying, treating or disposing of any waste water, industrial waste, or human excrement accumulating on any premise in the district. SEWAGE shall mean any water borne waste, industrial waste, or human excrement which may exist or accumulate on any premises. STORM WATER shall mean any water resulting from precip- itation mixed with the accumulation of dirt, soil, and other debris or substances collected from the surfaces on which such 3 precipitation falls or flows. GARBAGE shall mean every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit and vegetable matter that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables, and condemned foods found within the District except frozen or decayed fruits, meats, fish or fowl shipped into the District in unusable condition. The term garbage shall be held to also include refuse and offal from slaughter houses, pork houses and poultry houses. INDUSTRIAL WASTE shall mean any industrial liquid waste water or toxic substance from any industrial process. SEWER shall mean any public, semi-public or private lateral or main sewer, constructed in a street, alley, place, easement or right-of-way, exclusive of a building or industrial connection sewer. INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION SEWER shall mean that portion of sewer line required to carry the sewage of any industrial or commercial establishment from the last point of sewage entry on the premises to a sewer or to carry the discharge from any industrial pretreatment facility to a sewer. INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT shall mean any treatment plant used or intended to be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other wastes may or may not be present; provided, that a treatment plant in a public sewage system shall not be so designated. 4 SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT shall mean any works or device for treatment of sewage. PERSON includes an individual, a corporation or other legal entity, a partnership, and any unincorporated association, and includes the plural. Section Four. Every person, public utility, public agency, or institution desiring to install or enter into a contract for the installation of a public, semi-private or private sewerage system, or industrial sewer, or to make additions or alterations in any sewage, or industrial waste treatment plant shall make application to and shall receive written approval from the District before proceeding with the proposed work. The District shall conduct such inspections as may be necessary to insure compliance with the approved plans. Section Five. Every application referred to in Section Four shall contain such number of sets of complete plans and specifications fully describing such sewerage system or additions and alterations, or extension contemplated in the application as the Executive Director may by rule or regulation determine. The approval by the District may contain such terms and conditions as may be reasonable and necessary to insure compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance. Section Six. The Executive Director shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and intent of this Ordinance to protect the public health. Such rules and 5 regulations shall become effective upon approval of the Board of Trustees of the District and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer as a public record, and shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of Section 536.020 Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1949. Such rules and regulations may provide: (1) The minimum standards of design for any sewerage system or treatment facility. (2) The minimum standards for operation and maintenance of any sewerage system or treatment facility and to provide for the revocation of any permit for failure to conform with the minimum standards. (3) For the pretreatment of certain wastes which may injuriously affect the operation of sewage treatment plants or cause contamination of surface or ground waters. (4) The size of any sewer, velocity or flow for any sewer or sewerage system. (5) The data to be submitted with application for con- struction of any sewerage system and provide the manner and terms upon which application shall be granted or modified. (6) The detailed specifications for cars, vehicles, cans, tanks, or containers and equipment used for the purpose of removing, transporting, or disposing of any sewage sludge, industrial waste or human excrement by portable or mobile container. 6 (7) The minimum standards for soil porosity, ground water levels, location and area required for installation of an individual home sewage disposal system; and the minimum standards for construction of individual sewage disposal systems where special conditions require higher requirements than contained in the provisions of the municipal ordinances of the municipality in which the property is situated, or, as to property not within the boundaries of any city, town or village, the requirements of the St. Louis County Plumbing Code. (8) The minimum standards necessary to prevent injury to the public health from dangerous and unsanitary conditions resulting from exposed sewage, sludge effluent or human excreta; contamination of drinking water; damage to storm water drains and channels; contamination of streams and their beds and margins, underground water, bodies of water; storm or surface or process or cooling water in sanitary sewers; greases, chemicals, oils, sludge, and other materials which may clog or interfere with the operation of sewers or adversely affect the treatment of sewage; sewage and industrial wastes in storm water sewers; by by-passing such industrial waste treatment plant; contamination of the surface of the ground with sewage and interference with the proper treatment of sewage in treatment plants. Any such rule or regulation shall meet the minimum 7 standards of the Division of Health, Department of Public Health and Welfare, State of Missouri, provided, nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the Executive Director from requiring compliance with higher requirements than those contained therein where such higher requirements are essential to maintain a sanitary condition. Section Seven. Prior to presentation of any rule or regulation for approval to the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director shall give appropriate notice of the proposed regulations setting the time and place of a public hearing and conduct a public hearing on any proposed rule or regulation. Any hearing required or authorized herein may be conducted by the Executive Director or such other officer or agent, or employee of the District as the Executive Director may designate. Any such rule or regulation may be amended or repealed in the same manner as provided for approval. Section Eight. The following acts are hereby prohibited: 1. No sewage, human excrement or industrial waste may be discharged, deposited or permitted to flow on, in, or under the surface of the ground or into any surface water or ground water flowing through, in, or bordering the District, unless such disposal or condition of sewage, human excrement or industrial waste meets the standards and requirements of this Ordinance or any rule or regulation adopted hereunder, provided, however, that any municipal garbage grinding plant in operation at 8 the time of the adoption of this Ordinance shall be permitted to continue in operation. 2. No person shall remove, transport, or dispose any sewage sludge, or human excrement by any portable or mobile container without an unrevoked permit for that purpose from the District. 3. No sewage, human excrement, industrial waste, garbage or other material shall be discharged into or deposited in any sewer, storm water sewer, ditch, open channel, or drain unless such facility conforms to the standards and requirements of this Ordinance and any rule or regulation adopted hereunder. 4. No person shall injure or cause to be injured, any portion of any sewer system. 5. No person shall open or enter, or cause to be opened or entered any manhole in any sewer, to dispose of garbage or other deleterious substance or storm or surface waters, or for any other like purpose not provided for by permits issued under the provisions of this Ordinance. Section Nine. Every building in which plumbing fixtures are installed, and every premises having drainage piping thereon, shall connect to a public sewer, if available. A sewer shall be deemed available when a public sewer line is in place within that portion of any street, alley, right-of-way, or easement that adjoins or abuts such premises, or is within a distance of 150 feet of the property line of such premises. When 9 connection is not made to a sewer, an individual sewage disposal system approved by the Executive Director shall be installed. Any such installation shall comply with the provisions of this Ordinance and any rule or regulation adopted hereunder. Section Ten. It shall be the duty of every person, public utility, or institution holding a permit to operate a sewerage system or sewage treatment plant to furnish records for ascertaining compliance with this Ordinance as may be required by the Executive Director. Section Eleven. The Executive Director shall cause to be made such surveys, investigations and studies of sewage, sewerage systems and streams receiving sewage as may be necessary to determine that all sewerage systems are installed, operated and maintained in compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any rule or regulation adopted hereunder. Section Twelve. Every person, firm, corporation or institution who owns, maintains, or operates any sewage treatment plant or sewerage system, except an individual home disposal system, or who removes, disposes, or intends to remove, transport, or dispose of any sewage sludge, industrial waste or human excrement by portable or mobile container shall hold an unrevoked permit for that purpose from the Executive Director. Such permit shall be issued by the Executive Director upon application to the Executive Director and compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any rule or regulation adopted hereunder and upon 10 payment of annual fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) payable to the District, and to be deposited in a depository of the District, and upon delivery to the District of a cash or corporate bond in the amount of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). The cash or corporate bond shall run to the District and shall be conditioned as follows: (A) That the permittee, his agents and servants, shall comply with all of the terms, conditions, provisions, requirements and specifications of this Ordinance and the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. (B) Before acceptance, all bonds shall be approved by the Executive Director. If a corporate bond is offered, it shall be executed by a surety or guaranty company qualified to transact business in the State of Missouri. If a cash bond is offered, it shall be deposited with the Secretary-Treasurer of the District, who shall give his official receipt therefor, reciting that the cash has been deposited in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. Section Thirteen. It shall be the duty of the Executive Director, upon his own motion or upon complaint that, due to any method of sewage or storm water disposal other than a connection to an adequate sewage system, the public health is or may be affected, to give notice to the owner or occupant of the premises on which such condition is believed to exist, of a 11 hearing on the necessity of correcting such condition by connecting such premises to a sewer or facility. Such notice shall be given not less than ten days before the date of such hearing, and shall state the time, place and purpose of the hearing. Such notice may be given to the owner or occupant of the premises either by delivery in person or by posting a copy in a conspicuous place on the premises. Section Fourteen. The Executive Director or such employee of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as may be designated by him shall hold such hearing at the time and place designated. He shall make a finding and determination (1) As to the existence of the unsanitary condition affecting the public health (2) As to the availability of a sewer within the meaning of Section Nine of this Ordinance and (3) As to the necessity for such connection. In the event of a finding and determination that the public health is affected, that a sewer is available and that it is necessary that the premises be connected with such sewer, the Executive Director shall notify the owner or occupant of such premises to connect such premises with the available sewer system within a period of sixty (60) days from and after the service of such notice. Service of such notice may be made by delivery of a copy thereof to the owner or occupant of the premises in person, or by posting a copy in a conspicuous place on the premises. Section Fifteen. If such notice is not complied with within 60 days, then the Executive Director may order the work of 12 making such connection done by the District and shall make a charge against the owner or occupier of such premises for the reasonable cost of such work. If such bill is unpaid after thirty days, notice may be filed in the Office of Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, or of St. Louis County, as the case may be, whereupon such bill shall become a lien against the property so served. Section Sixteen. Any sewage, sludge, industrial waste, human excrement or liquid putrescible material, or liquid toxic material removed, transported, or disposed of in any other manner than as may be provided for by the provisions of this Ordinance or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall be deemed to be an offensive material dangerous or prejudicial to the public health and is hereby declared to be a nuisance. Section Seventeen. A violation of any rule or regulation adopted hereunder shall constitute a violation of this Ordinance, and any person violating any provisions of this Ordinance or any rule or regulation of the Executive Director as herein provided, shall upon conviction be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or be imprisoned in the City Workhouse or the County Jail, as the case may be, not less than 3 days nor more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense. Section Eighteen. It is the intent of the Board of 13 Trustees of the District that this Ordinance shall supplement any Ordinance of St. Louis County or any city, town or village in the District, and any Ordinance not in conflict herewith shall not be superseded hereby, and the authority and responsibility of local police and public health agencies shall remain in force and effect. Section Nineteen. If any portion of this Ordinance shall be adjudged to be void, as in violation of any of the provisions of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or the State of Missouri, it shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted June 30, 1955