Roseville, MN Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)
Key Facts
- Enforcing official
- Public works director
- Illicit discharge section
- Roseville City Code § 803.03
- Criminal penalty
- Misdemeanor
- Appeal window
- Seven days from the notice of violation
- Late utility fee penalty
- Ten percent of the amount past due
- Parking lot sweeping
- At least once a year in the spring
- Storm sewer connection
- Permit required under § 803.02
Summary
Roseville bars any illicit discharge into its storm sewer system or surface water, with a short list of exempt discharges, and makes the public works director the official who administers and enforces the rules. A violation of Roseville City Code § 803.03 is a misdemeanor, and storm sewer users also pay a quarterly utility fee under § 803.01.
(d) Administration. ... The public works director is the principal city official responsible for the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the provisions of this section. ... (e) Exemptions. No person shall cause any illicit discharge to enter the storm sewer system or any surface water unless such discharge: ... (2) No person shall intentionally dispose of grass, leaves, dirt, or landscape material into a water resource, buffer, street, road, alley, catch basin, culvert, curb, gutter, inlet, ditch, natural watercourse, flood control channel, canal, storm drain or any fabricated natural conveyance. ... (2) The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm sewer system is prohibited. ... (8) Criminal prosecution. A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
Official source re-checked November 3, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 2).
Full Breakdown
Roseville operates its storm sewer as a public utility under Minn. Stat. § 444.075, administered by the public works director inside the public works department (§ 803.01). The fee is the parcel's residential equivalent factor times its acreage times the rate in the city fee schedule. The printed factors run from 0.25 for cemeteries and golf courses up to 5.00 for commercial, industrial and warehouse land, with single-family and duplex residential at 1.00, and developed one-family and duplex parcels are treated as having an acreage of one-third acre. Public rights-of-way and vacant, unimproved land with ground cover are exempt. Statements are computed every three months and are due on or before the last day of the month in which the statement is mailed. An owner who questions an invoice can ask the public works director in writing to recompute it within twelve months of mailing.
Connecting any drain to a city storm sewer requires a permit (§ 803.02). The public works director grants permits only to applicants who have submitted a pipe layer bond to the state department of labor and industry and are registered under chapter 907, and the hookup fee comes from the city fee schedule.
Section 803.03 is the illicit discharge rule. No one may put non-stormwater into the storm sewer system or any surface water unless it is authorized by an MPCA NPDES permit, tied to firefighting, on the exempt list (water line flushing, landscape irrigation, non-commercial vehicle washing, dechlorinated swimming pools and similar clean sources), or a dye test with verbal notice to the public works director beforehand. Nobody may intentionally put grass, leaves, dirt or landscape material into a street, gutter, catch basin, ditch or storm drain. Parking lots and private streets must be swept at least once a year in the spring, and mobile washing companies must send wastewater to the sanitary sewer. Owners of property along a watercourse must keep their stretch free of trash and debris.
Violations & Fines
A violation of § 803.03 is declared a public nuisance and a misdemeanor. The public works director can issue a written notice of violation ordering monitoring, elimination of illicit connections, a cease and desist, cleanup, or a fine covering administrative and remediation costs. The city can suspend storm sewer access, without prior notice in an emergency. If the violation is not corrected, the city enters the property, abates it, and bills the cost within 15 days, which can be assessed against the property under Minn. Stat. § 429.101. Late utility bills carry a ten percent penalty.
Frequently Asked Questions
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