What are the duties of an owner?

Every owner and occupant must install, maintain and keep in good function any onsite stormwater facility in accordance with applicable requirements. Such requirements may be reflected as conditions of land use or property development in plats, building or special use permits, or other permits, or may be imposed as a consequence of other regulatory action, including code enforcement and nuisance abatement. See SMC 17D.060.050(A).

This chapter makes it a public nuisance for the “failure of an owner or occupant to install a required onsite stormwater facility, or maintain the same at a level of full function and efficiency tends to augment the discharge of stormwater, surface or groundwater flows onto the public right-of-way and other public or private property, as well as into public storm and sanitary sewers.” SMC 17D.060.020(A).