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SECTION 161-2 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste, except where an approved method of disposal is provided.
B. It shall be unlawful to discharge into any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter and the requirements of the commonwealth.
C. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain in the city any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
D. The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated with the city and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is located a public sanitary sewer of the city, are hereby required, at their expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet of the property line, unless prevented by topographical or other reasons.
E. The Commissioner shall annually establish equitable and just rental charges for the use of the sewerage facilities to be paid by every owner of an establishment whose building sewers connect directly or indirectly into public sewers. Such annual charges shall be in proportion to the quantity of water supplied to every such establishment, subject to any just equitable discounts and abatements in exceptional cases. The rental charges shall constitute a lien upon the real estate using such public sewers to be collected in the same manner as taxes upon real estate, or in an action of contract in the name of the city.
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