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Sec. 21-27. - Deposit of wastes generally.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said town.
(Ord. of 1-2002, Art. II, § 1)
Sec. 21-28. - Discharge into natural outlets restricted.#
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said town, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this article and with state and federal laws and regulations.
(Ord. of 1-2002, Art. II, § 2)
Sec. 21-29. - Privies, septic tanks, etc., prohibited generally.#
Except as hereinafter provided, 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.
(Ord. of 1-2002, Art. II, § 3)
Sec. 21-30. - Toilet facilities, sewer connections required.#
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the town and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the town, is hereby required at the owner(s) expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet of the property line. This requirement for connection may be waived, when permitted, by the town.
(Ord. of 1-2002; Ord. of 3-9-2010, Art. II, § 4)
Sec. 21-31. - 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 eighty (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 (1) car at a time.
(Ord. of 1-2002, Art. II, § 5)
Sec. 21-32. - Property owner maintenance responsibilities.#
The owner(s) of all property which has been or may be connected to the public sewer shall own and be solely responsible for the maintenance, repair and replacement as necessary of the building sewer, being that sewerage running from the building to the curb line or, if there is no curb line, to the front property line. The town shall be responsible for the maintenance, repair and replacement as necessary of the street lateral, being that sewerage running from the curb line or property line, as the case may be, to the public sewer; provided, however, that any damage to or clogging of the said street lateral which is caused by the negligent act of the property owner shall be repaired or replaced by the town at the expense of the property owner. Failure of the property owner to reimburse the town for such costs shall entitle the town to recover such costs through placement of a lien on the owner's property.
The property owner is responsible for ascertaining the location of any sewer problem affecting his/her property. If the property owner has evidence that a sewer problem is not in the building sewer, he/she shall notify the sewer department. The sewer department shall undertake any repair necessary in the street lateral or the public sewer; provided, however, that if the sewer department shall determine that the problem was, in fact, in the owner's line, all costs incurred by the sewer department shall be back-charged to the property owner.
(Ord. of 3-9-2010, Art. II, § 6)