HomeMy Public PortalAbout00110SEE ORDINANCES 30, 37, 44, 109, 149, 150 AND RESOLUTION NO. 19 O R D I N A N C E NO. 110
AN ORDINANCE repealing Ordinance No. 6 (which provides
for the approval, revision or rejection of plans, designs and
specifications of all sewerage or drainage works proposed to be
constructed, altered, or reconstructed by any other person or
corporation, private or public, in the District, and for the
terms, manner and standards upon which approval may be granted)
and enacting a new ordinance relating to the same subject and
providing for additional requirements for approval of construction
of sewerage and drainage works, final approval of such works,
prohibiting the use of sewerage or drainage works without approval
of construction, and providing penalties for violation thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Ordinance No. 6, adopted June 14, 1954,
is hereby repealed and the following seven sections are enacted in
lieu thereof.
Section Two. The Executive Director is authorized and
directed to review, approve, revise or reject plans, designs and
specifications of all sewerage and drainage works proposed to be
constructed, altered or reconstructed by any person or
corporation, private or public, in the District.
Section Three. The Executive Director shall, before
approval, require that any such plans, designs and specifications
for any sewerage or drainage works be reviewed. Such plans,
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designs and specification shall meet the minimum standards fixed
by the District before approval is granted.
Section Four. The Executive Director is authorized to
grant approval of construction of completed sewerage or drainage
works and, on compliance with all District requirements, to grant
final approval or to accept dedication of sewerage and drainage
works for public use.
Section Five. The Executive Director shall, before
approval of construction of any such sewerage or drainage works,
require that a field inspection thereof be made and that such
field inspection shall show that such works have been installed
and constructed in accordance with the plans, designs and
specifications approved as hereinbefore provided.
Section Six. Before final approval of, or acceptance
of any dedication to the District of the completed sewerage or
drainage works, the Executive Director shall ascertain whether or
not such person or corporation has performed fully all
requirements due under the terms of any and all permits and
contracts with the District with respect to such sewerage or
drainage works. In case said performance is due but incomplete,
the Executive Director shall notify such person or corporation
thereof, and only upon completion of such performance shall the
Executive Director issue final approval or accept the dedication
to the District of such sewerage or drainage works. The Executive
Director may, in his discretion permit such sewerage or drainage
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works to be constructed in sections, and may issue approval of
construction for each section upon completion thereof in
accordance with approved plans and specifications.
Section Seven. The placing of such sewerage or
drainage works into operation, or the use of same without approval
of construction by the District as provided in Section Five of
this Ordinance, shall be a violation of this Ordinance, and any
person or any agent who causes such works so to be put into
operation or so to be used in violation hereof shall upon
conviction be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more
than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), and each day of such
violation shall constitute a separate offense.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted January 14, 1957.