As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
AUTHORITY
The Western Monmouth Utilities Authority.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral line of a public sewer system or other connecting point
thereof.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or other duly authorized representative
or official of the Board of Health of the Township of Manalapan.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use, by human beings or animals, and from which sanitary sewage
and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy, vault, cesspool, sink hole, septic tank or similar
receptacle used or maintained upon any improved property which has
been connected, or which shall be required to be connected, to a public
sewer system.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity owning, in possession of or in
control of an improved property in the Township.
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM
A sewer system constructed, owned, operated and controlled
by the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority, a public body corporate
created by parallel ordinances of the Township of Manalapan and the
Township of Marlboro heretofore duly adopted and published.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Manalapan, a municipal corporation of the
County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, acting by and through its
authorized representatives, boards and agencies.
No individual subsurface sewage disposal system
shall be used or maintained at any time upon any improved property
which shall be required to be connected to a public sewage system.
Every such individual subsurface sewage disposal system in existence
shall be abandoned in accordance with the provisions of the Standards
for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems (N.J.A.C. 7:9A)
under the direction and supervision of the Construction Code Officer
or Health Officer. Such individual subsurface sewage disposal system
shall be abandoned in conformance with N.J.A.C. 7:9A-12.8 at the expense
of the person owning, in possession of or in control of an improved
property on which it stands. The failure to comply with the foregoing
shall constitute a nuisance, which shall be abated as provided by
law at the expense of such person.
No individual subsurface sewage disposal system
shall, at any time, be connected with a public sewer system.
Notice by the Township to abandon an individual
subsurface sewage disposal system shall be given to the person by
the Health Officer, in writing, and such abandonment shall be accomplished
within 30 days from the date notice is given. Such notice shall be
served upon the person, either by personal service or by certified
mail, to the address to which the Township sends tax bills.
When an improved property is serviced by an
individual subsurface sewage disposal system, at the time connection
to a public sewer system is required, the existing sewer line shall
be broken on the structure side of the individual subsurface sewage
disposal system and the attachment made, with proper fittings, to
continue such sewer line as a building sewer. At this time the individual
sewage disposal system shall be filled.
No building sewer shall be covered until it
has been inspected and approved by the Construction Code Officer.
If any part of a building sewer is covered before being inspected
and approved, it shall be uncovered before being inspected at the
cost and expense of the person.