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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE APPROVED FOR
No . 59 of 1987 PRINTING
(WASTEWATER CONTROL )
RECORDER'S OFFICE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2 AND CHAPTER 4 OF TITLE 37 OF
THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, 1965 AS AMENDED,
BY AMENDING SECTIONS 37-2-12 AND 37-4 -20, AND ADDING SECTION
37-4-21, RELATING RESPECTIVELY TO MANDATORY CONNECTIONS, REFUND
OF EXPENSES IN SALT LAKE CITY AND RETURN OF CITY 'S EXPENSES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah :
SECTION 1. That Section 37-2-12 of the Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City , Utah, 1965, as amended , relating to Mandatory
connections , be , and the same hereby is amended as follows :
Sec . 37-2-12. Mandatory connections.
(1 ) The owner or owner' s agent of all houses , buildings , or
properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or
other purposes , situated within the Salt Lake City Sewer Service
Area and abutting on any street, alley , or right-of-way in which
there is now located or may in the future be located a City sewer
line, shall , when required in writing by the City, at owner' s
expense , install suitable toilet facilities therein , and connect
such facilities directly with the City sewer system in accordance
with the provisions herein within ninety (90 ) days after date of
official notice to do so , provided that said City sewer line is
within three hundred (300 ) feet of the owner's property line .
( 2 ) Discontinuance of Privy Vaults, Cesspools , and Septic
Tanks .
(a) No owner, or owner' s agent, or other person having
charge of or occupying any property within 300 feet of a City
sewer shall maintain or use or cause or permit to exist any privy
vault, septic tank, or cesspool upon said property without City' s
wr itten consent.
( b) In no case shall any plumbing in any house or
building not complying with subparagraph ( a) above remain
unconnected to any public sewer for more than ninety ( 90 ) days
after written notice from the City.
3. No person shall erect or maintain any outhouse or privy
within the City Sewer Service Area.
SECTION 2. That Section 37-4-20 of the Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1965, as amended , relating to Refund of
expenses, be, and the same hereby is, amended as follows :
Sec. 37-4-20. Refund of expenses. The certified cost of
the petitioner' s installation of said extension or money
deposited pursuant to Sections 37-5-17 or 37-4-19 hereof , may be
partially or ccmpletely refunded , without interest thereon, only
under the following conditions :
( 1 ) For• a period of five years from the date on which such
an extension is ccanpleted and approved in writing by the City ,
the City will add a charge to be refunded to petitioner, as set
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forth below , for each connection made to said extension pursuant
to a written request for a service lateral connection thereto
from a property owner.
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Sec . 37-4-21. Return of City' s expenses.
(1 ) During a period of five years from the date on which an
extension is canpleted where the City has advanced all or part of
the funds for said extension and has decided to obtain a ref and
of expense therefor from connections thereto , the City shall make
an additional proportional charge based upon the following
fonnula for any connection to such extension pursuant to a
written request for a service lateral connection thereto from a
property owner.
( 2 ) Said charge shall be a front foot charge prorated
against the property to be served , based upon the said cost of
installation of said extension proprated over the total front
footage of property fronting on said extension. In the event a
subdivision of more than two lots are to be connected to the
extension , said charge shall be based upon a front foot charge
for each lot in said subdivision.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon the date
of its first publication.
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Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City , Utah, this
11th day of August , 1987.
CHAI ERSO
ATTEST:
CITY R I ADER
Transmitted to Mayor on Augu6t 11, 1987
Mayor's Action: X _Approved. Ve to ed .
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITI RE DER
(SEAL)
Bill No . 59 of 1987
Published: Augurt 21, 1987.
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