<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 26-227. - Prohibited discharge standards defense.</div>
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               A user shall have an affirmative defense to an enforcement action brought against
               it for noncompliance with the general prohibitions in subsection <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH26UT_ARTIVSEUS_DIV2SEUSRE_S26-96PRDIST" class="section-link" data-product-id="12650">26-96</a>(a) of this article or the specific prohibitions in subsections <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH26UT_ARTIVSEUS_DIV2SEUSRE_S26-96PRDIST" class="section-link" data-product-id="12650">26-96</a>(b)(2), (3) and (5) through (7) of this article, if it can prove that it did not know,
               or have reason to know, that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges
               from other sources, would cause pass through or interference and that either:
               
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                  (1)
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                  A local limit exists for each pollutant discharged and the user was in compliance
                  with each limit directly prior to, and during, the pass through or interference; or
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                  (2)
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                  No local limit exists, but the discharge did not change substantially in nature or
                  constituents from the user's prior discharge when the county was regularly in compliance
                  with its NPDES permit, and in the case of interference, was in compliance with applicable
                  sludge use or disposal requirements.
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               (Ord. of 9-26-94, Â§ 10.2; Ord. of 4-14-08, Â§ 37)
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