Chapter 28
SEWERS1
Article I. General
28-1. Definitions.
28-2. Water Services Department—Administration.
28-3. Water Services Department—Duties—Water Services Director.
28-4. Interference with the Water Services Department; digging up streets without a permit; tampering with equipment prohibited.
28-5. Property owner responsible for cleaning, repair and replacement of building sewers and connections.
28-5.1. Sewer service line repair and replacement in the public right-of-way.
Article II. Use of Public Sewers and Limitations
28-6. Unsanitary disposal of excrement prohibited.
28-7. Treatment of polluted wastes required.
28-8. General user requirements.
28-9. Authority of Director to establish prohibitions and effluent limitations.
28-9.1. Authority of Director to require best management practices.
28-10. Preliminary treatment—Required approval.
28-11. Preliminary treatment—Maintenance of facilities.
28-12. Interceptors—Required.
28-13. Interceptors—Type; capacity; location.
28-14. Interceptors—Construction of grease and oil interceptors.
28-15. Interceptors—Maintenance.
28-16. Control manholes.
28-17. Right of entry for inspection.
28-18. Discharges to be reported.
28-19. Tests and analyses.
28-20. Reserved.
Article III. Sewer Extensions
28-21. Approval by City Engineer and Director required.
28-22. Construction and ownership of public sewer lines and other equipment maintained by Water Services Department.
28-23. Sewer main extension policy for areas beyond present City trunk lines; establishment of a repayment program.
28-24. Sewer extensions in advance of a sewer assessment district.
28-25. Private sewerage systems—Construction and maintenance within City prohibited generally.
28-26. Private sewerage systems—When permitted; to be constructed and maintained in sanitary manner.
Article IV. Connections to Public Sewers and Charges
28-27. Permit required.
28-28. Application for sewer tap; sewer dye test.
28-29. Planning and Development Director to approve design, quantity, location, size and construction of sewer services.
28-30. Special provisions for installing sewer taps in new subdivisions and developments.
28-31. Records to be kept by Water Services Department.
28-32. Installation of sewer taps.
28-33. Reserved.
Article V. Sewer Service Charges
28-34. Method of developing sewer service charges.
28-35. Determination of sewage quantity.
28-36. Determination of wastewater quality.
28-37. Other user charge provisions.
28-38. Other sewer service charges.
28-39. Sewer service charges within and without the City.
28-40. Reserved.
28-41. Payment of bills and charges.
28-41.1. Application for service.
28-41.2. Financial responsibility deposits.
28-41.3. Errors in sewer fees. +1
28-42. Reserved.
28-43. Distribution of sewerage system revenues and utilization of funds.
Article VI. Industrial User and Pretreatment Requirements
28-44. General industrial user requirements.
28-45. Significant industrial user requirements.
28-45.1. Special discharges.
28-46. Authority of the Director.
28-46.1. Permit appeals process.
28-47. Confidential information.
28-48—28-52. Reserved.
Article VII. Accidental Discharge
28-53. Permittee provides protection.
28-54. Permittee shall notify City of accidental discharge.
28-55. Permittee will notify employees.
28-56. Permittee shall label potential accidental discharge points.
Article VIII. Citizens’ Wastewater Rate Advisory Committee
28-57. Citizens’ Wastewater Rate Advisory Committee—Composition; appointment.
28-58. Citizens’ Wastewater Rate Advisory Committee—Functions and purposes.
28-59—28-70. Reserved.
Article IX. Reserved
28-71—28-80.1. Reserved.
Article X. Enforcement
28-81. Enforcement of chapter.
28-82. Criminal penalty.
28-83. Civil penalty.
28-84. Remedies.
28-85—28-89. Reserved.
Article XI. Sewer Environmental Charge
28-90. Definitions for article XI.
28-91. Purpose of sewer environmental charge.
28-92. Sewer environmental rate.
28-93. Payment of bills and charges.
28-94. Utilization of environmental charge revenues.
Cross reference—Water Services Department, § 2-29; Development Advisory Board, § 2-164 et seq.; building regulations, ch. 9; sewer residential development occupational fee, ch. 19A; sewer commercial and industrial development occupational fee, ch. 19B; excavations in streets, § 23-26; offenses against public health, § 23-44 et seq.; solid waste, ch. 27; streets and sidewalks, ch. 31; discharging water into streets or sidewalks, § 31-8; subdivisions, ch. 32; stormwater quality protection, ch. 32C; water, ch. 37; environmental protection, ch. 40; Planning and Development Department fee schedule, app. A.2.
State law reference—General authority relative to sewers, A.R.S. §§ 9-499.01, 9-240(B)(5), 9-276(A)(8), 49-391.