§ 24-522 Maintenance of private sewers or drains located in public property or in private or public streets and emptying into the public sewer system.
AC § 24-522
a. As used in this section: 1. The term "private sewer or drain" shall mean any private sewer or drain located in public property or in any public or private street or streets and emptying into the public sewer system, but shall not include a curb-to-sewer connection as defined in section 24-512 of the code or a house sewer connection.
2.The term "private street" shall mean a privately owned street in which the public has a right of user not subject to revocation by the owner thereof. b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be the duty of the department of environmental protection to control, maintain, supervise and repair, and to inspect periodically, private sewers or drains as defined in subdivision a hereof, provided, however, that the department shall have no obligation or duty to replace or reconstruct any such sewer or drain. The cost of such control, maintenance, supervision, repair and inspection shall be borne by the city, within the amounts duly appropriated therefor. c. Right of entry.
1.The commissioner of environmental protection, his or her deputies and any other officers and employees of the department of environmental protection, when authorized by such commissioner, may enter upon public or private property and bring in necessary equipment at reasonable hours, for the purpose of exercising the powers or performing the duties of the department under this section. Refusal to permit such entry or equipment shall be punishable as provided in section 24-524 of this chapter.
