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Sec. 22-71. - Deposit of excrement, garbage or objectionable wastes.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the town, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(Code 1972, § 18-4; Ord. No. 2022-14, 11-16-22)
Sec. 22-72. - Use of privy, septic tank or similar facility.#
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater, except as provided in article IV of this chapter.
(Code 1972, § 18-5; Ord. No. 2022-14, 11-16-22)
Sec. 22-73. - Mandatory connection for buildings and properties.#
(a)
Pursuant to section 14 of chapter 211 of the Public Laws of Rhode Island, 1980, the director is authorized to order the owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the town and abutting on any street or right-of-way in which there is now or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the town, to install at the owner's expense suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer. Such connections shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the director or in accordance with article V of this chapter within one year after official notice to do so, provided that such public sewer is abutting the property line.
(b)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, the board of sewer assessment review, after a hearing on the matter and upon the recommendation of the town engineer, is empowered to waive this requirement for mandatory sewer connections if, for engineering or elevation considerations, it is impractical to connect to the public sewer and such waiver does not otherwise harm the public health and safety.
(Code 1972, § 18-6; Ord. No. 2022-14, 11-16-22)
Sec. 22-74. - Mandatory connection for car wash and laundry facilities.#
No person shall operate the business of a car wash, public laundry, automatic laundry or laundromat on any lot in the town unless such lot is served by a public sewer system or by a system which reclaims for reuse on the premises at least 80 percent of the water discharged from the washing facilities. This section shall not apply to any business which shall have been in operation prior to adoption of the ordinance from which this chapter derives and shall not apply to any gasoline station with a car wash stand to accommodate the washing of no more than one car at a time.
(Code 1972, § 18-7; Ord. No. 2022-14, 11-16-22)
Sec. 22-75. - Discharge of accumulated waters; use of basement drains, areaway drains, yard drains, and roof leaders.#
It shall be unlawful for any person, by way of sump pump or otherwise, to discharge water that has accumulated at that person's business or residence due to flooding caused by rain, groundwater, or any other reason, into the public sewer system. It shall be further unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any basement drain, areaway drain, yard drain, and/or roof leader for the purpose of discharging water, regardless of its source, into the public sewer system.
(Ord. No. 2005-56, 1-5-06; Ord. No. 2022-14, 11-16-22)