NOTICE OF ENACTMENT OF AN ORDINANCE
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
At its Council Meeting on December 5 , 1989, the City Council of Royalton, Minnesota passed the following Ordinance: Ordinance No. 31

AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SEWER USER REGULATIONS
A summary of this Ordinance is as follows:

ARTICLE I      Definitions
Establishes definitions for terms used in the Ordinance.

ARTICLE II     Control by Utilities Superintendent
Places the Utilities Superintendent in charge of the system.

ARTICLE III
Requires all structures used for human occupancy, business or recreation to be connected to the municipal system when the system is available. Also makes it illegal to discharge sewage except into the municipal system, where the system is available. Permits the City to connect structures, at the owner’s expense, where the owner has failed to make the necessary connection. This section further provides that the owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes from which waste water is discharged is required, at the owner’s expense, to install a suitable service connection to the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this Ordinance, within 90 days of the date said public sewer is operational, provided said public sewer is within three—hundred feet of the structure generating the waste water. This Article further provides for methods of notifying the owner of the need to connect to the public sewer system and the procedure for enforcing this Ordinance.

ARTICLE IV      Private Wastewater Disposal
Regulates private systems and requires their connection to the municipal system when the same become available to the property.

ARTICLE V       Building Sewers and Connections
Establishes the method, qualifications of the person performing the work and permit system for connections to the municipal system. Also regulates the type of systems which may be connected to the municipal sewage system. Also establishes the method for and type of inspections required for connections.

ARTICLE VI      Use of Public Services
Regulates the type of discharges into the system and prescribes methods for monitoring and correcting discharges. Also permits the City to take designated action with respect to discharges not permitted by the Ordinance or containing hazardous substances of properties connected to the system to install equipment required to protect the system and otherwise maintain said equipment. If the owner fails to install such equipment or otherwise maintain the equipment, the City may install or maintain the equipment, at the owner’s expense.

ARTICLE VII
Makes it a crime to break, damage, destroy or tamper with the system.

ARTICLE VIII      User Rate Schedule for Services
Incorporates the user rate schedule of Ordinance No. 32

ARTICLE IX       Powers and Authority of Inspectors
Empowers inspectors to enter property to inspect equipment and discharges into the municipal system. The inspector may also require users to supply information regarding the content of its sewage.

ARTICLE X       Penalties
A violation of this Ordinance is a misdemeanor. A person who violates this Ordinance is liable to the City for all damages resulting from the violation.
ARTICLE XI      Validity
A complete copy of this Ordinance is on file in the City Clerk’s Office and may be reviewed during the Clerk’s normal business hours. Published hereafteras the Sewer Use Regulations for the City of Royalton.

Clerk: Carol Madsen
Mayor: Eugene Keske