ORD NO 05-1965 ORDINANCE NO. 5 -1965
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE, CONNECTION WITH, ESTABLISHING
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF OPERATION, AMENDING THE PLUMBING CODE:
AND THE DISCHARGE OF WATER AND WASTES INTO THE PUBLIC SEWERAGE
SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES IN THE CITY OF VAN DUREN, COUNTY OF
CRAJFORD, STATE OF ARKANSAS.
IIHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas
has provided a public sanitary sewerage system including primary
treatment and disposal facilities, and established a Sewer Commis
sion•to administer the improvement, extension, operation and main-
tenance of said system, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Von Buren, Arkansas
has established charges, and moons of fixing charges, for the
use of said sewerage system, in such a manner as to provide
adequately for the expense of operation, maintenance, extension,
improvement, and payment of debt service, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas
has_adopted by reference with the passagd of Ordinance No. 8 -1960
on June 6, 1960 the "Arkansas State Plumbing Code Rules and.Reg-
ulatibns of the State Board of Health Governing the Construction,
Installation, and inspection of Plumbing and Drainage" as revised
and -issued by the Arkansas State Board of Health, Little Rock,
Arkansas.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS:
ARTICLE I
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the
meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
Section 1. "BUD" (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) Shall
mane the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic rattor under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at 20 C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
Section 2. "Building Drain" shall mean that part of the
lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which received the
discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the
building wall.
Section 3. "Building Senior" shall mean the extension from
the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
SECTION 4. "Combined Sewer" shall mean o sewer receiving
both surface runoff and sewage.
SECTION 5. "Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the,
domestic and commercial proparotibn, cooking and dispensing of
food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
SECTION 6. "Industrial Wastes" shall mean the liquid wastes
from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as
distinguished from sanitary sewage.
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SECTION 7. "Natural Outlet" shall mean any outlet into a
watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body or surface or ground
w :ter:
'SECTION 8. "Person" shall mean any individual, firm,.company,
association, society, corporation or group.
SECTION 9. "pH" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal
of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
SECTION 10, "Properly Shredded Garbage" shall mean the
wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that
have'been shredded to such a degree hat all particles will be
carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers;,with:cno particle greater than ono -half (t) inch
1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
SECTION 11. "Public Sewer" shall mean a sower in which all
curers of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled
by public authority.
•SECTION 12. "Sanitary Sewer" shall moon a sewer which carries
sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not inten-
tionally admitted.
'SECTION 13. "Sewage" shall mean a combination of the water
carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and
industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and
stormwoters as may be present.
Section 14. "Sewage Population Equivalent" shall mean the
characteristics of industrial wastes as compared to accepted standards
of domestic sewage on a per capita per day basis.
Section 15. "Sewage Treatment Plant" Shall mean any arrengenent
of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
Section 16. "Sewage Works" or Sewage shall mean all facilities
for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
Section 17. "Sewer" shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying
sewage.
Section 18. "Sewer Committee" shall mean the duly appointed
Sewer Committe appointed and action by authority of ordinances
enacted by the City Council of the City of Van Duren, Arkansas.
•Section 19. "Sewer Connection" or Sewer Tap shall be the
physical connection of a Sewer Service line or Building swer to a
City sewer main for a fee as established by the City.
Section 20. "Sewer Service Charge" shall be the charge assessed
and collected monthly with the customers water bill as fixed by
ordinance or Sewer Commission action.
'Section 21. "Sewer Service Line" shall mean the Customers
sewer line extending from the customers property line to the City
Sewer .Main installed for a fee as established by the City.
Section 22. "Shall" is manadatory: "May" is permissive..
Section 23. "Slug" shall mean any discharge of water,
sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given
constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any pericod of
duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5)
times :the average twenty -four (24) hour concentration or flews
during normal operation.
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Section 24. "Storm Drain" (sometimes termed "storm sewer
shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and
drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than
unpolluted cooling water.
Section 25. "Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent
of Sewer Department of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas, or his
authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Section 26. "Suspended Solids" shall mean solids that either
float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or
other liquids, and which are 'removable by laboratory filtration.
Section 27. "Watercourse" shall mean a channel in which a
flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
Section 28. "City" shall mean the City of Van Buren;
County of Crawford in the State of Arkansas.
ARTICLE II
Section 1. No person shall discharge or cause to be dis-
charged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff,
subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted
industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
Section 2. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage
shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated
asombined sewers or storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved
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by -the Superintendent. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process
waters may be discharged, on approval of the Superintendent, to a
storm sewer, combined sewer, or natural outlet.
Section 3. No person shall discharge or cause to be;.dis-
charged any of the following described waters or waste to any
publicaasewers:
(a) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(b) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity either singly
or ,by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with
any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or
animals, create a public nuisance or create'any hazard in the
receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including,but
not limited to, cyanides in excess of two (2) mg /1 as CN in the
wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
(c) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or
having any other corrosive property capable of cauing damage or
hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(d) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewer or other
interference with proper operation of the sewage works such as,
but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, egg shells,
shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, oil, grease, fats,
plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair
and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers,
etc.., either whole or ground by garbage grindQr9.
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Section 4. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes, if
it appears likely in the opinion of the Superintendent that.such wastes
can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment, have
an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise ;.endanger
life, public property, or constitute e nuisance. In forming his
opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Superintendent
will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of Subject
wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials
of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment: process
capaeity of the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of
wastes in the sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors.
The substances prohibited are:
(e) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one
hundred fifty (150) degrees F. (65'C).
(b) Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils,
in excess of one hundred (100) mg /1 or containing substances which
may 'solidify or become viscous at temperatures between thirtyrtwo
(32) and one hundred fifty (150) degrees F. (0 and 65 C.)
(c) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. (The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped With a
motor of three fourhs (3/4) horsepower or greater shall be subject
to the review and approval of the Superintendent.)
(d) Any waters or wastes containing strong acid pickling
wastes or concentrated plating solution whether neutralize or not.
,(e) Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances; or waste's
exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that
any:such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage
treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Superintendent
for such materials.
(f) Any waters or wastes containing phenol or other taste -or-
odor producing substances, in such a concentration exceeding limits
which may be established by the Superintendent as necessary, after
treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements, of the
State, Federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for. such
discharge to the receiving waters.
'(g) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half -life or
concentration as may exceed limits established by the Superintendent
in compliance with applicable State or Federal regulations.
(h) Any waters or3wastes having a pH in excess of 9.
(i) Piaterisls which exert or cause:
(1) Unusual concentrations or inert suspended solids
(such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries, and
lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not lirfjited
to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate).
(2) Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to,
dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(3) Unusual IIOD, oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements
in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage
treatment works,
(4) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes
constituting "slugs" as defined herein.
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(j) Waters or wastes containing substances which dre not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment process
employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the
sewage, treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements' of
other.agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving
waters;
S. If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are
proposed to'be discharged to the public sewers, which waters
contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated
in Section 4 of this Article, and which in the judgement of the
Superintendent, may have a deleterious effect upon swerage works,
processes, equipment or receiving waters, or otherwise create p
hazard` to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Superintendent
may:
(a) Reject the wastes,
.(b) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the public sewers,
(c) Require control over the quantities and rates discharged
and /or
(d) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and
treating the wastes not covered by ordinary sewer charges under thee
provisions of Section 10 and 11 of this article.
If the'Superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization of
waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and /or
equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the
Superintendent, and subject to the requirements o:f all applicable
codes,' ordinance and laws, and the Arkansas State Health Department.
regulations.
Section 6. Grease, oil, and sand interceptors or traps'shall
be provided whin, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are
necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease
in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand or other;•harmful
ingredients; except that traps shall not be required for private
living' quarters or dwelling units. All such traps shall be of a-.type
and c apacity approved by the Supertendent, and shall be located as
to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspect on.
,Section 7. Where preliminary treatment or flow equalizing
facilities are provided for any water or waste, they shall be
maintained continously in satisfactory and effective operation
by the owner at his expense.
`Section 8. llhen required by the Superintendent, the owner of
any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes
shall, install a suitable control manhole together with such necessary
44 maters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilite
observation, sampling, and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole;
when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be
constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent.
The manhole shall be'installed by the owner at his expense, and shall
be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
Section 9. All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristecs of waters and wastesto which reference is made in
this ordinance shall be determined in accordance with the latest
edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Waste Water," published by the American Public Health Association,
and shall be determined at the control manhole provided, or upon
suitable samples taks.1 at said control manhole.., In'the,event that
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no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be
considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer
to the point at which the building serer is connected. Sampling
shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the
effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the
existence of hazards to life, limb and property. (The particular
analyses involved will determine whether a grab sample or samples
should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and solids analyses
are obtained from 24 hour composites of all outfalls whereas -pH's
are determined from periodic grab samples.)
Section 10. As provided in existing Rate or Sewer Service
Chargb Ordinances, or as amended, all industrial wastes users of the
Van Buren Sewerage system shall pay a monthly sewer service •charge
as determined by the action of the Sewer Commission. This monthly
charge shall be fixed for a minimum of a calendar year as determined
by the average of the previous years operations. Once fixed this
monthly charge shall remain fixed until a new determination has been
made.by the Sewer Commission. A new determination shall be made
only: when there has been: (1) a substantial quantity change in
the Industry's production, (2) a new type or character of wastes
have been added by the industry,' (3) the City's type or degree of
treatment required by the Arkansas Water Pollution Control Commission
and The State Board of Health has changed, (4) or upon request of
either the industry or the City Council. Industrial sewer service
charges shall be determined by the most critical or maximum
population equivalent basis for the following loading as determined
by independent laboratory studies under the direction of a Registered
Profession Engineer duly qualified and experienced in the field of
Sanitary Engineering:
=(a) Hydraulic Loading: The population equivalent of the
hydraulic loading furnished by an industrial waste shall be determined
by actual flow measurement or by water meter readings per mdhth less
any substantial amount of water not returned to the sewerage system.
Upon determination of the average daily flow the population equivalent
shall,. be obtained by dividing by 70 gallons as the average sewage
flow::returned per person per day.
(b) Solids Loading: The population equivalent of the solids
loading shall be determined by Standard Methods for laboratory
procedures in determining the suspended solids reduced to average
pounds per day,oef solids returned to the sewerage system, and by
dividing by two- thenth (0.2) pounds per capita per day.
(c)BOD Loading: The population equivalent of the BOD Loading
shall be obtained by the use of Standard Methods for laboratory
procedures in determining the five (5) day BOD of an industrial
waste reduced to pounds, which shall be divided by seventeen,
hundredths (0.17) pounds per capita per day.
Section 11. The Sewer Commission shall fix each industry
monthly sewer service charge on the basis of the xaximum population
equivalent obtained as outlined in Section. 10 above divided by three
(3) (assuming an average of three (3) persons per residential sewer
customer), and multiplying by two dollars ($2.00) which is approxi-
Q mately the average sewer charge per residential sewer customer. As
an inducement for the continuation and the location of new industries
in Van Buren, the Sewer Commission may provide a subsidy in. the form
of a reduced sewer service charge as determined by commission
action based on similar sewer usage and quantity of existing
industries.
Section12. All sewer service charges fixed by the Sewer
Commission or by ordinance shall be shown in an appropriate
location on the customers water meter readings record sheet and
shall be included as a separate coded item on each water bill
rendered each month, Sewer service charges shall be subject to a
10% penalty if not paid by the 10th of the month, and if gross
amount due is not paid by the 20th of the month, water service shall
be discontinued and a lien for service charges due be placed on the
real property served until fully paid.
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ARTICLE III
.Section 1. No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, tap, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper
with any sewer main, structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is
part of the sewerage system. Any person violating this provision
shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly
conduc't.
'Section 2. Connections to the sanitary sewer system shall only
be made by the City Sewer Department upon proper Permit Application
and payment of a "tapping fee" as follows: (For 4" Tap and Sewer
Service Line)
For connection only on private property
(No Pipe furnished) $20;00
:For connection on: unpaved street $40.00
For connection on paved street $50.00
Section 3. A Sewer Connection ,application shall be made to the
Sewer .Department at the Water and Sewer Department Office by the
property owner of his licensed plumber after the yard line hes been
constructed from the Building to the Property Line. Application and
Receipt forms shall be filled -out in quadruplicate and shallshow
the correct name of the owner and /cr tenant, if other than the owner
shall pay the sewer service charge the complete address, whether
or not the sewer main is located on a paved street, the type of
(4" thin, size) building sewer pipe used and such other information
as the Superintendent or Sewer Commission shall designate. Copies
of the Application form shall be distributed to the City Street
department, and the Water and Sewe: Department meter and billing
section.. At the end of each month the Superintendent shall list
the Application numbers executed and connected along with the pre-
scribed fees collected for street maintenance and repair for'delivery
to the City Street Department whicl shall be responsible for- main-
tenance and repair of any street and pavement cuts after proper
backfill and compacting by the Sewer construction crew.
Section 4. Labor and materie: to be furnished by the Sewer
Department in installing sewer service lines shall be that required
to eXdavate, install pipe, tap to rain, connect at property line,
compacted backfill, and other inciFentals necessary to install in
a satisfactory manner a sewer serv:.ce line from the sewer main to
the Applicant's property line. Sewer service lines of larger than
4" pipe or longer than 80 feet shad be paid for at actual cost by
the applicant; in such cases connection costs shall be estimated
by the Superintendent and paid by the Applicant with refund or
additional payment mode upon completion to provide the Sewer;
Department with actual cost of ease connection. Care shall be
exercised by the Sewer Department to construct the service line
to the location and grade on the custom property line that best
serves his needs and in accordance with rinimum grade requiremebts
of the Plumbing Code and the Arkansas State Health Department
Regulations. Upon completion of the installation it shall be
maintained in satisfactory and usable concition by the customer.
No sewer customer nor his plumber shall dig or excavate in a -City
Street right of way to maintain a sewer service line without first
having obtained a permit for said street cut from the Superintendent.
The City shall coordinate the activities of the customer; and its
Water;Sewer, Building, Plumbing, Street, and,'r other Departments
as may be in the best interests of the City o? Van Buren and its
citizens,
Section 5. All sewer mains, building sewer, end sewer service
lines installed and connected to the City of Van Buren, Arkansas
Sewage System shall be constructed in accordance with accepted
standards using the following approved materia'_s,(installed in
accordance with the manrlfacturer's recommendations) of the minimum
pipe diameter of four (4 inches, listed below:
(a) Cast Iron Soil Pipe conforming to A.S.T.M. standard
specifications A- 74 -62, with either lead or rubber ring
type joints,
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;(b) Asbestos Cement Sewer Pipe conforming to Uniform Plumbing
Code MS 1 -58 Western Plumbing Officials Association, with an
asbestos- cement coupling and rubber rings.
(c) Vitrified Glazed Clav Sewer Pine conforming to the latest
A.S.T.M, specification for first grade standard strength
nitrified clay sewer pipe with PVC compression type joints
c17n,brm.ng to A.S.T.M. C- 425 -60T specification.
(d) Concrete Sewer Piye conforming to A.S.T.M. Standard
specification [75 -52 with gasket -type joints.
The present Plumbing Code Ordinance No. 8 -1960 adoptong by reference
the Arkansas State Plumbing Code and its Chaper 3 paragraph 3.3
"Approved Materials" is hereby amended as above set forth.:Atl
Building Sewers, on private property, shall be subject to the
inspection and approval of the City BieMbing::lnspector for
conformance with this ordinance and other local and state laws
goverining Plumbing. All sewer service lines installed in public
streets shall be subject to inspection and approval of the Super
intendent, or his authorized representative, to insure conformance
with this ordinance and Rules end Regulations of the State Board
of Health. Any not conforming to the requirements of this
Ordinance shall be replaced by the Sewer Department at actual cost
to owner or customer. The Sewer Department shall not be responsible
for maintenance of existing Sewer Service Lines or those installed
in violation of this Ordinance, and in no case shall the Sewer
Department be responsible for Building Sewer" lines on private
property.
Section 6. It shall be the responsibility of the Sewer i
Commission and the Superintendent to maintain the Van Buren
Sewerage system consisting of sewer mains, laterals, interceptors,
outfalls, manholes, service lines, force- mains; lift stations, pump
stations, sewage treatment facilities equipment and buildings in k,t.
first :class operational and efficient condition as economically as
possible. The Sewer Department shall conform to all the accepted
standards of practice in maintenance and operation of the Sewerage
System and shall abide by all the Rules, Regulations, and requirew
ments of the Arkansas State Board of Health pertaining thereto.
ARTICLE IV
vection 1. The Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification
shall'be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of in-
spection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in`accord-
ance ;with the provisions of this ordinance. The Superintendent or
hisSepresentatives shall have no authority to inquire into any
processes including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining; ceramic,
paperbrr' other industries beyond that point having a direct,bearing
on the kind and sorce of discharge to the sewers or waterways or
facilities for wastes treatment.
-Section 2 While performing the necessary work on private
properties referred to in /Article IV, Section 1 above, the Super
ao inteedent or duly authorized employees of the City shall '7
:ll sefety,rules 41;2licable`torthe premfses° the'
company ani! the'campany2sb.a11 be Het: .H.nrmless fore'ietjiry'cr yr
pluathr.tc the•Eity employees and`tha City shs11 indemrrify the
Corp >;y against loss or dama.gc.to by City-Employees
gd.a ainst.liability claims and deman;ls for personal injury :or
property damage asserted against the company and growing out of
gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by
negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions.
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Section 3 The Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the City bearing proper credential and identification
shall'be permitted to enter all private properties through which
the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but
not limited to inspection, observation, measurement, sampling,
repair, and maintenance of any portion of the .sewage ',corks lying
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within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on
said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of
the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property
involved.
ARTICLE V..
Section 1. The Van Buren Sewer Commission is hereby given
authority to prepare such "Rules and Regulations" relative to.
Sewer-.Department Operation and Maintenance, as is found to be in
the best interests of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas.. Said-Rules
and'Regulations shall be presented to the City Council for their
approval, and upon publication shall be binding upon the Citizens
and /or users of the Van Buren Sewerage System. Said Rules and-
Regulations shall be used to fix policy, usage, charges, revise
existing Rules and Regulations, and for other purposes pertaining
to the City's Public Sewerage System; so long as they are not:in c
clear and direct violation of this or any other Ordinance, or
Stete. and Federal Law.
ARTICLE VI
Section 1. The Sewer Commission shall extend the sanitary
sewer mains and sewer service to presently "built -up" areas not
served inside the City of Van Buren as rapidly as funds therefor
beoome available provided such extensions are economically fea-
sible shall provide at least one customer for each 100 feet'of
sewer main extension.
Section 2. The Sewer Commission shall not extend sewers
mains into development areas, Sub- divisions, or Additions in the
City.of Van Buren that do not conform to the requirements for
existing prospective customers requesting said service as out
lined- Section 1 above. However the Sewer Commission may Con
tract.with the owner or owners of an area to be developed to
reimburse them at the rate of two hundred ($200.) dollars ?ex'
each sewer customer connected until the actual expense of con-
structing said sewer mains into undeveloped areas has been re-
paid',within not to exceed 10 years from the date of said Contract.
Section 3. The Sewer Commission shall require that any ex-
tension of Sewer mains as outlined in Section 18.2 above shall be
properly Engineered with plans and Specifications prepared by a
Registered Professional Engineer of the State of Arkansas. The
Sewer Commission shall have the right to approve or disprove said
Plani. and Specifications or to require their alteration to conform
tot'atandards, location, main size, materials proposed, or other-
wise :to meet the Sewer Commissions requirements prior to construc-
tion Also after being approved for the City of Van Buren Said
Plans and Specifitations shall be approved by the Arkansas State
Board.of Health prior to construction. Any extension under Con
tract for reimbursement shall also include copies of construction
contracts and the Engineer's final cost certificate which with
Engineering Fees therefor shall fix the total actual expense
subject to reimbursement.
Section 4. Any sewer main extensions shall upon approval,
completion, and connection to the Van'Bufed Sewerage System,
become the property of the City Sewer Department; and shall be
subject to all applicable Rules and Reuulnt;r+na, an,d Brdiirc,ncss
of the City.
ARTICLE VII
Section 1. Any person found to be violating any provisions
of this ordinance except Article III shall be served by the City
with written notice stating the nature of the violation and,pro-
viding a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction
thereof. The offender shall, with the period of time stated in
such notice, permanently cease all violations.
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Section 2. Any person who shall continue any violation
beyond the time limit provided for in Article VII, Section 1,
above„ shall be guilty of a misdeameanor, and on conviction:
thereof shall be fined in .an amount not exceeding one hundred
dollars ($100.00) for each violation. Each day in which any
such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisionsof
this ordinance shall became liable to the City by reason of such
violation.
ARTICLE VIII
Section 1. The provisions of this ordinance are severable,
and if any part of provisions hereof shall be held void or invalid
the remaining parts or provisions shall not be affected or impaired.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval and publication.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of 1965
APPROVED:
Allen R, Toothaker (s)
Mayor
ATTEST:
Geo L. Crofton (5)
City Clerk