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B. Jurisdiction. The provisions of this Section shall apply to the method of sewage disposal from every building within the City intended for human use or habitation, whether such use is permanent, temporary or seasonal, regardless of the date of original construction or use. 1. The owners of all buildings where €ity municipal sewer is available or becomes available, shall connect the buildings to the City municipal sewer within 10 months of the availability o f the sewer accord ing to the pro visions o f the City Code ; subject to the following conditions: (a^l A code or compliant ISTS will not be required to be connected to municipal sewer until the ISTS becomes non-comoliant or the building undergoes major remodeling resulting in an increase in water use that exceeds the capacity of the ISTS. A Certificate of Occupancy will not be issued until the building is connected to the municipal sewer. fb’l An ISTS that is non-compliant due omlv to a lack of a three foot separation must be connected to the municipal sewer system within the same time frame that septic system replacement would be required. (c^ A failing ISTS that is discharging sewage to the surface must be coimected to the municipal sewer within ninety (90) days. 2. At the time connection to city sewer is completed all existing septic tanks no longer in use shall be pumped out and filled with native soil. 3. The owners of those buildings which have been completely connected to municipal €tty sewer shall be exempt from the maintenance and inspection provisions of this Section. €:-------Surface Discharge. Unless specifically permitted by MPCA and the City of Oro no , sewage, sewage tank effluent, o r seepage fro m a so il treatment system shall not be discharged to the gro und surface, abandoned wells, or bo dies o f surface water, or into any ro ck o r so il for matio n the structure o f which is not co nducive to purificatio n o f water by filtratio n, or into any well or ot her excavation in the grotmd : All new or existing systems which discharge to surface waters or the ground surface must o btain either a Natio nal Po llutant Discharge Eliminatio n System (NPDES) or State Dispo sal System Permit fro m MPCA and shall co mply with all federal, state, and City requirements pertaining thereto . 6:------Standard System Required. In areas not served by City sewer systems, sufficient ope n land o f suitable so il characteristtcs shall be pro vided for each new o r existing building to allo w fo r the design, co nstructio n and use o f a "standard” onsite system within the pro perty or o n which such building is loc ated. Standard systems are the o nly new systems permitted by tliis Sectio n witho ut a variance thereto : Page 6 of 22