51-91 ?gD£NANCE NO. 51-91
AN C~RD!NANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 6, "INFRA-
STRUCTURE AND PUBLIC PROPERTY", SECTION 6. i .~,
"SEWER SYSTEM", OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
~TY OF DELRAY
OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE ~
BEACH, AND TITLE 5, "PUBLIC WORKS", CHAPTER 54,
"SEWERS", SECTION 54.16, "CONNECTION WITH SANITARY
SEWER UPON AVAILABILITY", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, BY ALLOWING
FOR 90 DAYS TO CONNECT TO THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM;
PROVIDING A GENERAL REPEALER CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY T~E CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Chapter 6, "Infrastructure and Public
Property", Article 6.1, "Design Standards and Requirements", Section
6.1.11, "Sewer System", of the Land Development Regulations of the Code
of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach, Florida, be,' and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 6.1.11 Sewer System:
(A) Required: Sanitary sewers, properly connected with the
City sewerage system shall be provided. In addition to mains,
laterals shall be installed to each platted lot and stubbed off at
the property line for future connection. (Where sanitary sewerage
systems are not reasonably accessible, individual septic tanks may
be used following County Health Department requirements. In such
cases, sewer lines shall be laid and capped until connection to a
public system becomes feasible and mandatory.)
Except as provided for in Subsection 6.1.11(C), it shall be unlaw-
ful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank,
cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of
sewage.
The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated
within the City and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way
in which there is now located or may in the future be located a
public sanitary sewer of the City are required, at their expense,
to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect those
facilities directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of
official notice to do so, provided that the public sewer is within
200 feet of the property line.
It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, install, or
repair septic tanks or other similar sewage disposal systems in or
upon any property within any area described in the following
paragraph.
The owner, tenant, or occupant of each lot or parcel of land within
the City which abuts on or is within 200' of any street or other
public way containing a sanitary sewer, which is served or which
can be served by the sewerage system and upon which lot or parcel a
building has been constructed for residential, commercial, or
industrial use shall connect that building with the sanitary sewer
within 69 90 days after the sanitary sewer is available to that
building for use, and shall cease to use any other method for the
disposal of sewage waste, or other polluting matter.
Section 2. That Title 5, "Public Works", Chapter 54,
"Sewers", Section 54.016, "Connection With Sanitary Sewer Upon
Availability", of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach,
Florida, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 54.16 CONNECTION WITH SANITARY SEWER UPON AVAILABILITY
That the owner, tenant, or occupant of each lot or parcel of
land within the city which abuts on or is within 200 feet of any
street or other public way containing a sanitary sewer, which is
served or which can be served by the sewerage system and upon which
lot or parcel a building has been constructed for residential,
commercial, or industrial use shall connect that building with the
sanitary sewer within 60 90 days after the sanitary sewer main is
available to that building for use, and shall cease to use any
other method for the disposal of sewage, sewage waste, or other
polluting matter.
Section 3. That should any section or provision of this
o~dinance or any portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence or word be
declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid such deci-
sion shall not effect the validity of the remainder hereof as a whole
part thereof other than the part declared to be invalid.
Section 4. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances which
are in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall become effective ten
(10~ days after its passage on second and final reading.
PASSED AND A~XPPTED in regular session on second and final
reading on this the 13th day of August 1991.
City Clerk
First Reading. July 23, 1991
Second Reading August 13, 1991
ORD. NO. 51-91
BOCA BATON NEWS
DELRAY BEACH NEWS
BOYNTON BEACH NEWS
Published Daily
Monday thru Sunday
Boca Baton, Palm Beach County, Florida
Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF PALM BEACH
Before the undersigned authority personally ~me~memmm
appeared NANCY WATT who on oath says that she A PUBUC .EARING
is the Classified Advertising Manager of the Boca 7:~ ~.~.. (.., ~
such ~ti~ ~h is ~t by
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newspapers published at Boca Baton in Palm ~st Aw~, .~r.y
Beach County, Florida; that the attached copy of ,~ ~ ~,~ ,-.
advertisement was published in said newspapers ~ ~ ~ c~ c~t
in the issues of: e,~h, Ft~ida, ~om
AN ~DI~NCE OF THE CI~
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BEACH, FLORID~ ~E~i~
CHAPTER 6, ~INFR~STRU~URE
AND PUBLIC PROPERTY~, SECT O~
6.1.11, 'SEWER SYSTEM
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AVAIL-
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Florida, Monday through Sunday, and have been ~t~c.. F~0.~o~,
entered as second class matter at the post office in ~o.. ~s zo co.~c~
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM;
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CLAUSE; PROVID~NG AN EFFEC-
tied of one year next preceding the f~st publica-
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affiant further says that she has neither paid nor ~ ~, ~ c~,, c0~
promised any person, lmm or corporation any dis- ~,,~. ~,~n~
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