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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-947" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Water and Sewer Authorities">
  <text>If the sewage or other waste that a manufacturing, commercial, or industrial plant or other building or premises discharges into a sewerage system is, because of its character, an unreasonable burden on the sewerage system, the authority that owns, operates, or maintains the sewerage system may:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Impose an additional charge on the owner, tenant, or occupant of the plant, building, or premises; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Require the owner, tenant, or occupant of the plant, building, or premises, before it discharges its sewage or other waste, to treat the sewage or waste in a manner that the authority determines.</text>
  </level>
</section>
