§ 56-104. Authority of the manager of public works.

The manager of public works shall have the authority to classify and reclassify customers for sewer service charges and surcharges; to require applications for the connection of building sewers to the public sewers; to require the installation of sanitary sewage flow meters, water meters, inspection chambers or control manholes; to issue or revoke sewer use permits; to sample the sewage flow of building sewers; to require the submission of production unit data for sewer service charge billing periods or sewer sampling periods; to adjust water billing data prior to the calculation of sewer service charges; to establish strength indexes for industrial waste class customers; to enter upon private and public premises at reasonable times and hours to inspect sewer facilities and sewage disposal operations and for sampling, measuring and testing sewage discharge; start to determine residential equivalents for commercial and industrial establishments; to bill and collect sewer service charges, surcharges, permit charges and other applicable fees; to adjust inequities in sewer service charges of all classes; to determine and establish limits of quality and quantity of deleterious wastes to be discharged into the sanitary sewerage system; to issue orders requiring compliance of discharge of wastes within established limits of quality and quantity; to make the design, plans and construction of private sewerage systems subject to review and approval by the department of public works; to require the installation of sewage pretreatment facilities; to establish conditions and fees for the discharge of septic tank pumpage into the sewerage system; and to do any and all other things necessary for the enforcement and administration of the terms of this division, including, but not limited to, the power to issue legal process to enforce the provisions of this division.

(Code 1950, § 167.13)