§ 720-5. Storm Sewers.  


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  • The utility division shall monitor the design, operation, maintenance, inspection, construction and use of all storm sewers, storm drains, and stormwater facilities in the city. The utility division shall be responsible for the design and construction of public stormwater facilities in the city and shall inspect, operate, and maintain them as prescribed in C.M.C. 720-15 and C.M.C. 720-19. Additionally, the utility division may accept responsibility for the design and for construction of private stormwater facilities and shall inspect, operate, and maintain them only when prescribed in C.M.C. 720-13. For the purposes of this chapter, storm sewers begin at the grating or opening where water enters the structure, through the sewer and conduits to the outlet structure where water enters a channel, natural watercourse or combined sewer.

    Responsibility for all private or public sanitary and combined sewers shall be dictated by the terms of the April 12, 1968, agreement between the city and MSD and other memoranda of understanding.

(Ordained by Ord. No. 281-1985, eff. July 19, 1985; a. Ord. No. 056-2012, § 8, eff. March 29, 2012)