§ 15.40.050. Maintenance of service connection—Owner's and department's responsibility.

A.

The owner will own and maintain his sewer service line from the public sewer main to the structure served.

B.

If the owner experiences sewer service interruption as a result of a sewer service line failure and has demonstrated a good faith effort to remedy the problem, the department shall make any necessary repair on the portion of sewer service line inside the public right-of-way or easement from the main to the boundary of right-of-way or easement. Provided, however, that before the department will make such repairs, the owner must provide an excavated clear and open access to the sewer service line at the right-of-way or easement boundary. Residential customers will not be billed for any repair performed by the department under this section. Commercial customers shall pay all costs of repair incurred by the department under this section and such costs shall be billed on the customer's next bill.

(Ord. BL2006-1239 § 15, 2006; prior code § 40-1-177)