[Added 10-14-1991 by Bill No. 1991-13]
The following words and phrases shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person, partnership, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of cleaning and emptying septic tanks, holding tanks, seepage
pits, privies or any other on-site disposal facility.
A dug or drilled hole extending into porous soils for the
purpose of introducing sewage effluent into the ground.
A water-type receptacle which receives the discharge of sewage
from a building sewer or part of it and is designed and constructed
to permit the settling and the digestion of the organic matter by
an anaerobic bacterial action.
Water-carried human, domestic and other waste and includes
all human and animal excreta.
A sewage treatment unit, collection system, disposal area
and related appurtenances.
[Amended 10-17-2006 by Bill No. 2006-11]
A.
All waste material and septage collected by scavengers
must be discharged at an approved location or facility. The County
Executive, shall specify approved locations or facilities which may
accept the discharge. Discharge at an approved facility shall be subject
to the facility's operating rules and regulations.
A.
it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to violate
any provision of this article, and, upon conviction thereof, such
persons shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisoned
for not more than six months, or both. Each day that a violation exists
or continues shall constitute a separate offense.
B.
Violation of the provisions of this article may result
in the revocation of the individual, firm, partnership or corporation's
permit to operate as a scavenger.
C.
The imposition of the penalties herein prescribed
shall not preclude Wicomico County, Maryland, and/or the owner and/or
the manager of an approved facility from instituting appropriate action
to prevent, restrain, correct or abate violations of this article
or the rules and regulations of the approved facility.
