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 Village of Carthage 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 Village of Carthage or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said 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.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes,
situated within the Village of Carthage 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, 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 Village of Carthage public sewers
shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in Section
307 of the Act, 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 areas of the POTW.
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 Village of Carthage
Board, NYSDEC, USEPA and/or other such state or federal agencies which
have enforcement powers.