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- CODE OF ORDINANCES Chapter 78- UTILITIES ARTICLE III. -SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL DIVISION 2. -SEWER USE AND DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS Subdivision I. - In General Sec. 78-95. - Tests and sampling authorized. The city may conduct such tests as are necessary to enforce this division, and employees of the city may enter upon any property for the purpose of taking samples, obtaining information, or conducting surveys or investigations relating to such enforcement. Entry shall be made during operating hours unless circumstances require otherwise. In all cases where tests are conducted by the city for the purpose of determining if a previously found violation of this division has been corrected, the cost of such tests shall be charged to the user and added to the user's sewer charge. In those cases where the city determines that the nature or volume of a particular user's sewage requires more testing than normally required, the city may charge the user for such additional test after giving the user ten days' written notice of its intention to do so, and the cost thereof shall be added to the user's charge. (Code 1982, § 1300.02(15)) Sec. 78-96. - Methods for measurements, tests and analyses. All measurements, tests, and analysis of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this division shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation. Sampling methods, locations, times, duration and frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis subject to approval by the city. (Code 1982, § 1300.02(16)) Sec. 78-97. - Use of public sewers required. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary 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. Generally accepted gardening and agricultural practices are not prohibited by this subsection. (b) It shall be unlawful to discharge to 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 the provisions of this division. (c) Except as provided in this division, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage. (d) All buildings constructed on property to which a public sewer is available at the time a certificate of occupancy is issued for the building shall be required to connect to the public sewer prior to occupancy. All buildings to which a public sewer becomes available following legal occupancy of the building shall be required to connect to the public sewer, provided that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the structure generating wastewater and the public sewer is located in a public right-of-way or easement for utility purposes adjacent to the property, as follows: (1) Connection shall be required if either the septic system or well serving the building or property fails and needs replacement; and (2) Connection shall be required prior to the sale of the building or the property on which the building sits. Elk River, Minnesota, Code of Ordinances Page 8