A. 
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in these rules and regulations shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground-, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "storm sewer")
A sewer which carries storm- and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution Control of the Town of Marblehead, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
B. 
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
A. 
An assessment for the sewer system at the rate of $1.85 per foot shall be charged for the total frontage of every property owner's lot.
B. 
On corner lots, the total frontage of the street first sewered is assessed and all over 60 feet is assessed on the other street.
C. 
On through lots from one street to another, if the lots are 100 feet deep or over, the total frontage of both streets shall be assessed. All lots under 100 feet deep are assessed on the street first sewered.
D. 
On angle lots bordering on two or more streets, the total frontage of all streets shall be assessed less 60 feet.
E. 
Sewer assessments are due 90 days from the date of the assessment bill. At the end of 90 days, all unpaid sewer assessments are apportioned over a period of 10 years. The yearly apportionments appear on the property owner's real estate tax bill each year under the heading of sewer apportionment plus committed interest of 4%. It is allowable for the property owner to pay the unpaid apportionments up at any time before the 10 years expire if he so desires.
A. 
No utility pipe or pipes shall be laid in the same trench as a particular sewer or house connection unless they are placed at a distance of at least three feet from said sewer pipe on either side, and no utility pipe or pipes shall be laid in the same trench either above or below a particular sewer or house connection.
B. 
No application or permit for particular sewers or house connections shall be issued during the period from December 1 each year until such time as the frost is out of the ground.
C. 
Exceptions to this regulation may be made for emergencies at the discretion of the Board of Sewer Commissioners and/or the Superintendent of Sewers or after proper test borings have been made under the supervision of the Superintendent of Sewers.
D. 
Main sewer line construction shall be halted at the date regulated by the engineers of the Board of Sewer Commissioners. This applies to general construction and private developers.
A. 
An application for a connection with the sewerage system shall be made in writing upon a blank provided for that purpose and shall be signed by the owner of the property proposed to be so connected or by his duly authorized agent or attorney and shall be filed at the office of the Sewer Commissioners.
B. 
The work of constructing and maintaining a particular sewer shall be done only by the Sewer Commissioners or their duly authorized agent or agents and by no other person or persons. Only drain layers who hold a license issued by the Board of Sewer Commissioners, for which a five-hundred-dollar performance bond is required, have the right to lay pipe.
C. 
The cost of cleaning, maintaining and repairing all particular sewers or house connections shall be paid by the owners of the estates connected.
D. 
All particular sewers shall be of such material and size and laid at such depth and gradient and in such location as the Sewer Commissioners may determine. No particular sewer shall serve more than one building without the consent of the Sewer Commissioners.
E. 
Private sewers or drains laid previous to the adoption of these rules and regulations may not be connected with the Town sewerage system unless they are found upon examination to be correctly located and laid at the proper grade and to be in good condition with proper and suitable fixtures and appurtenances satisfactory to the Sewer Commissioners or their duly authorized agent or agents.
F. 
When the particular sewer is completed and payment in full has been made therefor, the Sewer Commissioners will issue a permit to the owner or owner's agent authorizing the connection of the house plumbing with the particular sewer. Said permit must be in the possession of the owner or owner's agent at the time when the connection is made. The owner must give immediate notice to the Sewer Commissioners when said connection is made that they or their authorized agent may inspect the same. Until said permit shall have been issued, no person shall cut into or in any way interfere with such particular sewer or allow anything to be discharged therein.
G. 
No person shall discharge surface water or roof drainage into any particular sewer or into any connection with a common sewer or underdrain of the common sewer, and no person shall directly discharge groundwater or cellar drainage into any particular sewer or connect directly with the underdrain of the common sewer. No exhaust from engines or blowoff from boilers shall be connected with, and no gasoline, explosive fluids or any substance which may be liable to injure the sewer, interfere with any of its uses or obstruct its flow shall be discharged into, the Town sewerage system.
H. 
The Sewer Commissioners may at any time require such grease traps or ventilating pipes to be installed as they may deem necessary for the proper maintenance of said particular sewer or of the common sewers. In every case where any restaurant, boardinghouse, hotel or business of a similar nature is carried on which provides for 20 or more persons, a suitable grease trap must be installed.
I. 
Garages and other establishments where gasoline is used and which are connected with the common sewers must be supplied with a suitable trap or separator satisfactory to the Sewer Commissioners. An appliance having a storage capacity of 35 cubic feet or over which has an outlet near the top of the receiving basin with a pipe (without cleanout inside of the basin) extending from said outlet to near the bottom of basin, so that the discharge will be always from the bottom, will be accepted. The outlet pipe shall have a water seal of not less than two feet properly vented to prevent siphonage, and the sump for catching sand shall be not less than two feet below the mouth of the discharge pipe. Such settling basins can be made of metal or masonry and placed either inside or outside of the building, as the Sewer Commissioners shall determine. Such basins shall be freely ventilated by connection with the outer air. Waste pipes from all fixtures (including sinks) which can be used for disposal of gasoline shall discharge into the basin. Traps or separators must be kept in good condition and shall be cleaned frequently. Grease, oil, etc., from such traps or separators shall be disposed of in a safe manner. A plan showing an approved type of trap or separator can be seen at the office of the Sewer Commissioners.
J. 
Should any particular sewer become obstructed or otherwise fail to work, notice thereof by the owner, his agent or attorney must be forthwith given to the Sewer Commissioners or their authorized agent or agents.
K. 
All piping from the discharge of sewer ejectors shall be known as force mains.
(1) 
No force main shall directly discharge into any main sewers.
(2) 
All force mains shall discharge into a manhole at the connection to the main sewer.
(3) 
All force main piping shall be of such material and size and laid at such depth and gradient and in such location as the Sewer Commissioners may determine.
These rules may be rescinded or modified or added to by the Sewer Commissioners at any time when in their opinion such action is for the best interests of the Town of Marblehead.
A. 
All rules and regulations in conflict with this article are hereby repealed.
B. 
The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence or provision of these rules and regulations shall not affect the validity of any other part of these rules and regulations which can be given effect without such invalid part or parts.