It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit, or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner or in
any manner not compliant with this chapter, on public or private property,
within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the said
municipality, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable
waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic, normal or sanitary
sewage onto the surface of the ground or discharge it in a way that
permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system
so that sewage flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively
for stormwater or so that stormwater flows into a sanitary sewer.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet, within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the
Town, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions
of this chapter.
No property owner, builder, or developer shall
be issued a building permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this chapter, is available. All housing construction
or building development which takes place after this chapter is enacted
shall provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool,
or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater unless
such facility was in existence and functioning properly when this
chapter was enacted. Any such preexisting, properly functioning facilities
may be continued, maintained and repaired with the approval of the
Building Inspector or the Town Engineer.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes,
new and existing, 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 sewer, is hereby required, at the owner's
expense, install suitable sanitary facilities therein, drain subsurface
and surface water on the premises, and connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter and under the supervision of the System Operator, provided
that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line and
is operational. Such a connection shall be in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a single-family
residence will not be required to connect to such sewer district facilities
and to the public sewer if the single-family residence is served by
a properly operating private septic disposal system. The owner of
such single-family residence may connect to the public sewer if the
property owner so chooses.
The use of the Town public sewers shall be strictly
limited and restricted to receiving and accepting the discharge of
sewage and other wastes generated on or discharged from real property
within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
A.
The owner of all houses, buildings, or property used
for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose situated
within a sewer district in the Town is hereby required at his/her/its
expense to install sanitary sewer facilities therein and to connect
such facilities directly to the appropriate public sewer collection
system, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the
property line and is operational. Such a connection shall be in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter as provided for herein.
B.
Once a public sewer has been constructed within 100
feet of an owner's property line and becomes operational, the Town
will send a notice to such owner's address as maintained by the Assessor
for the Town. The notice will be sent by first-class mail and certified
mail to the owner indicating that the public sewer has been constructed
within 100 feet of the owner's property line. Within one year of the
mailing of the notice by the Town, an owner of property used for any
purpose other than a single-family residence shall connect his/her/its
building or other structure to the public sewer. If a property is
used for a single-family residence and is being served by a properly
operating private septic disposal system and that property is located
within 100 feet of a public sewer, the owner of the single-family
residence is not required to connect the single-family residence to
the public sewer, although the owner of such residence may do so.
If the single-family residence or the property itself is converted
to a nonresidential use or a use other than a single-family residence,
then the owner of such property shall connect his/her/its building
or other structure to the public sewer within one year of the conversion
to the non-single-family residential use. If the owner of a property
used for other than a single-family residence converted does not connect
to the public sewer within the one-year period, the Town will send
a notice that the owner is in violation of this section and has 90
days from receipt of the notice to connect to the public sewer before
being in violation of this section. The property owner will then have
an additional ninety-day period to connect to the public sewer, and
if such connection is not made within the ninety-day period, then
the owner will be in violation of this section.
A.
The Town Board, on the recommendation of the Town
Engineer, shall have the authority to enter into agreements to accept
sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated by
or discharged from persons outside the service area of the POTW.
B.
If the person is a municipality, that municipality
shall have enacted a sewer use law as restrictive on the discharge
of sewage and other wastes as the restrictions contained in this chapter.
C.
If the person is not a municipality, the acceptance
shall be made only with the expressed written consent of the Town
Board, in its sole discretion, setting forth the terms and conditions
of such an acceptance.
If the Town Board determines that one or more
segments of the POTW are exceeding its hydraulic capacity at any time
or any specific purpose of this chapter is being violated, then the
Town Board shall have the authority to adopt a moratorium limiting
or entirely denying new connections to the POTW until the conditions
leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by
construction of new facilities, enlarging existing facilities, correction
of inflow and infiltration, or the cleaning and repairing of existing
facilities, to the satisfaction of the Town Board.
All requirements, directives, and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the Town Board, NYSDEC,
USEPA, and/or other such state or federal agencies which have enforcement
powers in this subject area.
