Packet: Tiffin City Council Work Session (09/15/2026)

CHAPTER 95 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM 95.01 Purpose 95.06 Right of Entry 95.02 Definitions 95.07 Use of Easements 95.03 Superintendent 95.08 Special Penalties 95.04 Prohibited Acts 95.09 Abandoned Sewer Lines 95.05 Sewer Connection Required 95.01 PURPOSE. The purpose of the chapters of this Code pertaining to Sanitary Sewers is to establish rules and regulations governing the treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage within the City in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. 95.02 DEFINITIONS. For use in these chapters, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms are defined: 1. “B.O.D.” (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20℃, expressed in milligrams per liter or parts per million. 2. “Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (one and one-half meters) outside the inner face of the building wall. 3. “Building sewer” means that part of the horizontal piping from the building wall to its connection with the main sewer or the primary treatment portion of an on- site wastewater treatment and disposal system conveying the drainage of one building site. 4. “Combined sewer” means a sewer receiving both surface run-off and sewage. 5. “Customer” means any person responsible for the production of domestic, commercial, or industrial waste that is directly or indirectly discharged into the public sewer system. 6. “Garbage” means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce. 7. “Industrial wastes” means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage. 8. “Inspector” means the person duly authorized by the Council to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connections to the public sewer system; and to inspect such sewage as may be discharged therefrom. 9. “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater. 10. “On-site wastewater treatment and disposal system” means all equipment and devices necessary for proper conduction, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 769 -