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ORDINANCE NO. 53A
CITY OF LINO LAKES
COUNTY OF ANOKA
STATE OF MINNESOTA
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PORTIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 53, PASSED BY THE THEN
VILLAGE COUNCIL ON AUGUST 10, 1970.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LINO LAKES ORDAINS:
SECTION I.
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The words in Section 1 of Ordinance No. 53, passed by the then Village
Council on August 10, 1970, as follows: "...including therein the Minnesota
Individual Sewage Disposal Code, as Appendix E..." is hereby amended by
the same being deleted and by replacing the same with the following:
SECTION 1A, CODE ADOPTED.
The 1971 edition of the Minnesota Individual Sewage Disposal System
Code of Minimum Standards recommended by the Minnesota Department of Health
is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of this Ordinance as if
fully set forth herein, one copy of which shall be kept on file at all
times in the office of the City Clerk-Treasurere and open to inspection
at regular office hours.
SECTION II.
SECTION I of said Ordinance No. 53 is hereby further amended by adding
'\thereto the following:
SECTION L, Licensing, regulation and required reporting of work on
existing individual sewage disposal systems by Sewage Tank Cleaners and
others.
Subdivision 1, Definition
"Sewage Tank Cleaner" shall mean any person, firm or corporation who,
as a business, cleans or performs work on a privy, vault, septic tank, cess-
pool, or other part of an individual sewage disposal system within the City
of Lino Lakes, Anoka County, Minnesota.
Subdivision 2, License, Bond, and Insurance Required.
The same license, bond, and insurance required in Section E of Section
I of Ordinance 53 shall be required of all Sewage Tank Cleraners; however,
the license, bond and insurance shall include the services performed by
Sewage Tank Cleaners, if a person, firm or corporation has or shall have
such license, bond and insurance required by'said Section E.
Subdivision 3. Removing Material from Individual Sewage Disposal Systems.
No Sewage Tank Cleaner, or any other person, firm or corporation shall
empty or remove the materials or contents, or any portion thereof, of any
vault,privy, cesspool, septic tank or drain, or of any other part of any
/individual sewage disposal system other than into a container made tight
and closely covered.
Subdivision 4. Disposal of Contents.
No Sewage Tank Cleaner or any other person, firm, or corporation shall
dispose of any of the contents so removed as described in subdivision 3,
above,upon open ground or in any well, open stream or body of water and
such contents shall be disposed of in a sanitary manner and as approved
Eby the City Building Official.
Subdivision 5. Approved Vehicle.
Ne Sewage Tank Cleaner or other person, firm or corporation shall remove
or cause to be removed any of the contents as described in subdivision 3,
above, in any container or vehicle except such as shall be approved by the
City Building Official, and under no circumstances shall any container or
chicle be used for such purpose that might become saturated with offensive
liquids and thereby become a nuisance in itself.
Subdivision 6. Reporting
All Sewage Tank Cleaners shall file with the City Clerk -Treasurer, once
each month, a detailed report listing the date, address and exact work per-
formed on every privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other part of an
individual sewage disposal system. All other persons, firms or corporations
performing any such work shall report same within one month thereafter to
the City Clerk -Treasurer.
Subdivision 7. Records to Be Kept.
The City Clerk -Treasurer shall keep complete records of all such reports
as required to be filed under subdivision 6, above, referencing same to
specific properties in the City of Lino Lakes.
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Subdivision 8. Reporting.
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The City Clerk -Treasurer shall report to the City Building Official
any such work as reported, when there are more than two instances of such
work upon a particular property within a one year interval.
Subdivision 9. Action To Be Taken.
The City Building Official shall, either personally or through other
qualified personnel inspect all individual sewage disposal systems so re-
ported to him and determine whether or not such systems constitute a
health hazard and report his recommendations to correct same and serve a
copy of same upon the owner of the premises involved.
Subdivision 10. Power to Enter Property.
The City Building Official or person selected and appointed by him
to do so, shall have the power to, between sunrise and sunset, enter such
property reported to him, or other property upon which written complaints
have been made to him of individual sewage disposal systems which constitute
a health hazard, to examine any vault, privy, cesspool, septic tank or
private sewage disposal system, entry to be made upon the showing of proper
credentials.
Subdivision 11 Remedying Health Hazards.
Any person, firm or corporation which shall have been served to recom-
mendations stated in subdivision 9, shall take the necessary remedial work
to correct same within a maximum period of thirty (30) days after service
of such recommendations.
,Subdivision 12. Cleaning When Requested.
When requested by the owner or occupant of any-premisis, any Sewage
Tank Cleaner, licensed hereunder, shall clear or empty or work on any
vault, privy, cesspool, septic tank or private drain or an individual sewage
disposal system, and remove any -and all nuisances. Such Sewage Tank
Cleaner may demand and receive, in advance his fees for services but not
exceeding the maximum rates specified in his application for license or
a reasonable sum if such not be specified.
SECTION III.
Save as herein amended, said Ordinance No. 53 shall stand and be in
full force and effect as previously so passed.
SECTION IV.
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and publication according to law.
Passed by the City Council this 8th day of August, 1977.
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William I. Bohjanen, ayor
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Edna L. Sarner, Clerk -Treasurer