delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant was found guilty of violating one of plaintiff’s ordinances relating to the discharge of waste into its publiс sewer and fined $200.
On review, it is contended that (1) the ordinance and ■ action of the plaintiff violated the due рrocess requirements of the Federal and State Constitutions because (a) the ordinance was unreasonable in prohibiting any waste, with a pH count of less than 5.5, from being discharged into the public sewer without reference as to whether the quantity of discharge is sufficient to cause damage and (b) the plaintiff acted unreasonably by repealing a former ordinance upon the subject that provided for notice and a reasоnable time to correct any violation and (2) the plaintiff failed to prove a clear violation of the ordinance because (a) no proof was introduced that the alleged wastes were discharged into a public sewer and (b) the proof that the wastes contained a pH count of 2.4 was insufficient.
The pеrtinent portions of the ordinance under attack provide in part as follows:
“. . . no person shall dischargе or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
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“(f) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than (5.5) or higher than (9.0), or having any other corrosive property capablе of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works. . . .”
Only two witnesses аppeared at the trial, both on behalf of the plaintiff. The first witness, a sanitary engineer employed by the Illinois Department of Public Health, testified that, in company with another man, he took approximately 500 millimeter of waste water from a manhole in the building sewer of the defendant company. About half of that amount was sеnt to his department’s laboratory in Springfield for analysis. In the presence of the witness, the other man checked the remainder of the amount taken by using litmus paper. In comparing the changed color of the litmus paper with a graph, it was determined that the pH quantity of the material was between 2.0 and 3.0. The quantity sent to Springfield was tested, utilizing the glass electrode which is the best known method, and the results indicated a pH of 2.4.
The defendant first arguеs that the ordinance is unconstitutional or, in any event, unreasonable because it prohibits the discharge оf “any” waste. We do not so read the ordinance. The ordinance does not prohibit the discharge of аny waste. Indeed, waste having a pH between 5.5 and 9.0 may be discharged in any quantity. It is only those wastes which have a pH of less than 5.5 or more than 9.0 which are prohibited. For purposes of understanding, the number 7.0 indicates a neutral wаter or waste. A lower number indicates an acid water or waste and a higher number, an alkali water or wastе,
The corporate authorities of еach municipality have power to regulate the construction, repair and use of sewers, section 11-20-10 and section 11-109-1 of the Municipal Code (111 Rev Stats 1967, c 24, §§ 11-20-10 and 11-109-1) and to make and enforce all necessary rulеs and regulations for the care and protection of its sewerage system, section 11-141-7 of the Municipal Cоde (Ill Rev Stats 1967, c 24, § 11-141-7). In short, the corporate authorities have adequate legislative power and they hаve exercised that power in a reasonable manner, The City of Nokomis v. Sullivan, 14 Ill2d 417, 422-423,
Before the adoption of the current ordinance, the plaintiff had an ordinance on the same subject matter which provided fоr a written notice of violation and an opportunity to the person to whom the notice was directed to correct the condition. Sometime prior to the violation herein charged, that ordinance wаs repealed and the ordinance, under which this proceeding commenced, simply provided the usual finе without previous notice or right of correction. Defendant argues that it is unreasonable to repeal a notice provision of the ordinance and unreasonable not to give a reasonable time to correct violations. The defendant cites no authority for this proposition and, indeed, there is none. Thе amendatory ordinance was published and this is notice to the world of its existence. The plaintiff is not required tо give any other notice or to permit a reasonable time to correct violations.
The defendant next argues that the plaintiff did not prove a violation in that it failed to prove that the waste in question was disсharged into a public sewer and that the proof regarding the pH content of the waste
Judgment affirmed.
DAVIS and SEIDENFELD, JJ., concur.