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dechlorinated swimming pool discharges; street wash water; and discharges or flows from fire fighting activities. These discharges are exempt until such time as they are determined by the City of North Olmsted to be significant contributors of pollutants to the MS4. 2. Discharges specified in writing by the City of North Olmsted as being necessary to protect public health and safety. Discharges from off-lot household sewage treatment systems permitted by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health for the purpose of discharging treated sewage effluent in accordance with Ohio Administrative Code 3701-29-02(6) until such time as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issues a NPDES permitting mechanism for residential 1, 2, or 3 family dwellings. These discharges are exempt unless such discharges are deemed to be creating a public health nuisance by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. In compliance with the City of North Olmsted Storm Water Management Program, discharges from all off-lot household sewage treatment systems must either be eliminated or have coverage under an appropriate NPDES permit issued and approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. When such permit coverage is available, discharges from off-lot discharging household sewage treatment systems will no longer be exempt from the requirements of this Chapter. B. Prohibition of Illegal Connections. The construction, use, maintenance, or continued existence of illegal connections to the MS4 is prohibited. This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illegal connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection. 2. A person is considered to be in violation of this Chapter if the person connects a line conveying illicit discharges to the MS4, or allows such a connection to continue. 933.08 MONITORING OF ILLICIT DISCHARGES AND ILLEGAL CONNECTIONS A. Establishment of an Illicit Discharpe and Illegal Connection Monitaring Program: The City of North Olmsted shall establish a program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges and illegal connections to the MS4. This program shall include the mapping of the MS4, including MS4 outfalls and home sewage treatment systems; the routine inspection of storm water outfalls to the MS4, and the systematic investigation of potential residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities for the sources of any dry weather flows found as the result of these inspections. B. Inspection of Residential, Commercial, Indusfial, or Institutional Facilities. 1. The City of North Olmsted shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to this Chapter as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this Chapter. 2. The City of North Olmsted shall have the right to set up at facilities subject to this Chapter such devices as are necessary to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge, as determined by the City of North Olmsted. 6