§ 60-345. Construction standards; acceptance by city.

(a)

All work of construction on facilities authorized under section 60-341 shall be in accordance with the approved engineering reports, plans and specifications, all applicable city standard specifications on file in the office of the director of water services, and all applicable provisions, of the building code of the city. Also, all such work shall be done under the direction and supervision and to the satisfaction and acceptance of the director of water services. Acceptance of the completed facility by the director shall be made only after receipt of evidence that all bills for labor, materials and equipment have been paid, and as-built plans certified by a registered professional engineer have been delivered to the director of water services. Upon acceptance of the facility and conveyance of acceptable title to the city, the department of water services will maintain and operate the facility and collect sewer service charges in accordance with applicable city ordinances.

(b)

The granting of this special permit and the construction of the sewage treatment or sewage pumping facility, and acceptance by the city of such facilities for maintenance and operation, shall not exempt the property served by it from being taxed for the construction of sewers in the districts or in the joint districts now or hereafter established in which any facility may be constructed, and the city shall not be bound by the construction to consider that the properties served by such facilities constitutes a separate sewer district, and the city shall have the right and power to assume ownership of, to make use of, and to construct, reconstruct or change the sewage pumping facilities in any manner or do any other things necessary for the proper sewering and treatment of sewage wastes from the area serviced by the facility authorized by the special permit.

(c)

Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that the property owner or his assigns shall be denied the right to use the sewage treatment or pumping facility up to the approved designed capacities as stipulated in the approval of plans and specifications by the director of water services.

(Ord. No. 120551, § 1, 6-28-12)