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Section 3 -14 -335. Limitations on Point of Discharge. <br /> No User shall discharge any substance directly into a manhole or other opening in a <br /> community sewer other than through an approved building sewer, unless upon written <br /> application by the User and payment of the applicable User charges and fees, the City issues a <br /> permit for such discharges. <br /> Section 3 -14 -340. Limitations on Use of Garbage Grinders. <br /> Waste from garbage grinders shall not be discharged into the sanitary sewer except <br /> where: <br /> (a) Wastes are generated in preparation of food normally consumed in a residence; or <br /> (b) The User has an existing garbage grinder and has approval for that specific use <br /> from the City. Such grinders must be repaired or replaced as necessary in order to at all times <br /> ensure that the waste is shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under normal <br /> flow conditions prevailing in the City sanitary sewer. Garbage grinders shall not be used for <br /> grinding plastic, paper products, inert materials, garden refuse, and waste products resulting from <br /> the handling, storage and sale of equipment; and <br /> (c) At any time the property or business changes ownership, excluding residential <br /> property, the existing garbage grinders on the property must be removed and no new garbage <br /> grinders may be installed as a condition of continued City sanitary sewer service to the property. <br /> Section 3 -14 -345. Prohibitions on Hospital Wastes. <br /> Hospitals, clinics, offices of medical doctors, and convalescent homes shall not discharge <br /> to the sanitary sewer: <br /> (a) Equipment, instruments, utensils, hypodermic needles, syringes and associated <br /> articles. <br /> (b) Any article that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms and that are used in <br /> the rooms of patients having a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease which by the <br /> nature of the disease is required to be isolated. <br /> (c) Recognizable portions of the human anatomy. <br /> (d) Wastes excluded by other provisions of these regulations. Nothing in this section <br /> shall be construed to limit the authority of appropriate health agencies to define wastes as being <br /> infectious and to prohibit discharge to the sanitary sewer. <br /> 14 <br />