ORD CC 06/24/75 - Sewer systemORDINANCE NO. 75 -9
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE IV, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, BY ADDING A NEW DEFINITION UNDER SECTION 17 -54 AND
BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH UNDER SECTION 17 -56, ENTITLED PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGES,
TO BE NUMBERED PARAGRAPH (7) PROVIDING A PENALTY.
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas, heretofore on June 8,
1971, passed and published an amendment to Chapter 17 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Huntsville which amendment was known as the Industrial Waste Ordinance of the
City of Huntsville, which recited as the purpose of said ordinance the promotion of
the public health and welfare by limiting discharges into the sanitary sewer system
prohibiting 'discharges that would damage or interfere with the operation of the
sanitary sewage treatment plant or that would be detrimental to the quality of
effluent therefrom, and whereas, Section 17 -56 (6) prohibited the discharge of any
noxious or malodorous substances, which paragraph covers and includes many substances;
which, in the opinion of the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas, includes
the dumping or discharging of septic tank systems waste, which waste in bulk may
cause damage to the sanitary sewer system and increase the permissible level of
effluent discharged from the sanitary sewer system, thereby endangering the system
and the public health and therefore in the interest of the public health it is now
deemed necessary to be specifically recited as a prohibited substance from being
discharged into the sanitary sewer system or sanitary sewer plant and in pursuant
thereof requires an amendment to the Industrial Waste Ordinance of the City of
Huntsville.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, that Article IV, of Chapter 17, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Huntsville is hereby amended by the following additions to Section 17 -54 definitions,
and Section 17 -56 prohibitive discharges with such amendments to be added as follows:
Section 17 -54. Definitions.
(z) Septic tank waste shall mean any liquid or solid substance
pumped, drained or otherwise obtained or removed from septic
tank systems.
Section 17 -56. Prohibitive Discharges.
(B) (7) Septic tank waste.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that any person, firm or corporation violating the terms
of the amendments to the Industrial Waste Ordinance as set forth in this ordinance,
shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a Class C Misdemeanor and punished as
described in Section 1 -8 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Huntsville, Texas.
PASSED AND APPROVED in open. Council, this the 2 ' -"'day of June, 1975.
orris 1 Wal er, ayor
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City Attorney