§ 94-600. Disconnection.

(a)

If any person depositing or discharging industrial waste into a public sewer fails to make application to the department of utilities and/or to secure an industrial waste permit within the time prescribed herein, or if any person allows or causes industrial waste of unlawful quality under the requirements of this section to be discharged into any sanitary sewer, the department of utilities is authorized, if such person is using city-parish consolidated government water, to disconnect such person's service line from the city-parish consolidated government water system and/or the sanitary sewer and the same, at the approval of the department of utilities, shall only be reconnected at the expense of the owner or occupant.

(b)

If such person does not use city-parish consolidated government water, the department of utilities is authorized to disconnect such person's service line from any sanitary sewer and the same shall only be reconnected at the expense of the owner or occupant after approval of the department of utilities.

(c)

The department of utilities shall notify the owner or occupant of the premises where the waste is generated that a waste of unlawful quality is being discharged to the city-parish consolidated government 's sewer system and shall afford such person a reasonable opportunity to present evidence to the department of utilities that he is in compliance with this article.

If such person does not present sufficient evidence, the department of utilities may disconnect the water and/or sewage service line after giving at least 24 hours prior notice.

(d)

No public sewer connection or water connection disconnected hereunder shall be reconnected until the condition causing the disconnection has been corrected, and the correction is of a permanent nature.

(Ord. No. O-037-2004, § 1, 3-2-04)