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C H A P T E R I I I
3.0.0 WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
3.1.0 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED
3.1.1 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, group, or corporation to place,
deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or
private property within the established sewer districts of the County, or in
any area under the jurisdiction of said County, any human or animal
excrement, industrial waste, garbage, or objectionable waste.
3.1.2 It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the established
sewer districts of the County, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
County, any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of
this Chapter.
3.1.3 It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, cesspool, ditch,
private sewer, septic tank, semi-public disposal system as defined in
Section 3709.065 of The Ohio Revised Code or other facility intended or
used for the disposal of sewage, industrial or their wastes if the premises
served by any of these facilities is accessible to a public sewer.
3.1.4 The owner of any premises located in any sewer district, his agent, leasee,
or tenant, or any other occupant of the premises, (1) upon certification by
the Sanitary Engineer that the sewer is available for use and is accessible to
the premises, and (2) upon Order of the Board of County Commissioners, is
required to connect the premises to the sewer for the purpose of
discharging sewage or other waste originating on the premises, to make use
of the public sewer and to cease the discharge of the sewage or other waste
into a cesspool, ditch, private sewer, privy, septic tank, semi-public disposal
system as defined in Section 3709.085 of The Ohio Revised Code or other
outlet.
This section (3.1.4) does not apply to the following:
A. Any discharge authorized by an NPDES permit issued under
division (J) of Section 6111.03 of The Ohio Revised Code, other than
a discharge to or from a semi-public disposal system as defined in
division (B)(1)(a) of Section 3709.085 [3709.08.5] of The Ohio
Revised Code;
B. Wastes resulting from the keeping of animals;
C. Any premises that are served by a common sewage collection system
when the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other
waste originates is more than two hundred (200) feet from the nearest