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 of Albion or in any area under
the jurisdiction of said municipality, any human or animal excrement,
garbage or objectionable waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic
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.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet, within the Town of Albion or in any area under the jurisdiction
of the municipality, 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,
septic tank or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
Owners of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes
situated within the Town of Albion 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 are hereby required, at the owner's expense,
to install suitable sanitary facilities therein, and to connect such
facilities directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after official notice
to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5
meters) of the property line.
The use of the Town of Albion public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
100-15, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the Town and village sewer systems.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent,
who determines that one or more segments of the Town and village sewer
systems is exceeding its hydraulic capacity at any time and any specific
purpose of this chapter is being violated, the Town of Albion Town
Board shall have the authority to limit or deny new connections to
the Town and village sewer systems until the conditions leading to
the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by:
A. Construction of new facilities.
B. Enlarging existing facilities.
C. Correction of inflow and infiltration.
D. Cleaning and repairing of existing facilities.
All requirements, directives and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the Town
and village sewer systems, for the proper discharge of sewage and
other wastes, including industrial wastes, shall be established and
given by the Town of Albion Town Board, NYSDEC, USEPA and/or other
such state or federal agencies which have enforcement powers.