[Amended 10-17-2014 by L.L. No. 6-2014; 4-19-2021 by L.L. No. 2-2021]
A. Village residents that request to have their swimming pool filled
from a fire hydrant must direct their request to the Village Clerk's
office. A minimum of three days' notice is required, unless the Water
Department schedule can accommodate the request sooner. The Village
Clerk's office will refer the request to the Water Department for
compliance. If in the judgment of the Water Superintendent it is deemed
unsafe to fill from a fire hydrant, then the property owner will have
to make other arrangements.
B. Charges for such service will be based on the current rate for metered
water, to which a labor charge of $100 will be added.
C. The property for which the request is being made must have a zero
balance account prior to having this service provided.
D. There will be no swimming pools filled by the Village of Carthage
for properties outside the Village.
E. Residents that fill their own swimming pools through their home meter
can receive a credit on their sewer portion of water/sewer bill for
the billing period in which the water was used, providing they complete
the pool filling credit request. The forms are available at the Village
Clerk's office. The amount of credit will be calculated based on the
size of the pool and height of water added to it. No credit is given
when topping off the pool requires less than two billing units (1,500
gallons). Only one pool filling request will be granted annually for
any property.
F. For the purposes of this policy, the term "swimming pool" shall mean
a swimming pool as defined in the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code as the same may be amended from time to time.
The Village of Carthage will plow municipal
parking lots. Except as hereinafter provided, the Village of Carthage
will remove snow only from crosswalks and from sidewalks adjacent
to Village-owned property. In compliance with the local law on sidewalk
shoveling, complaints about unshoveled walks will be directed to the
Police Department. Upon receiving such a complaint, police will investigate
and, if the sidewalk in question is found to be unshoveled, will notify
the resident whose sidewalk is unshoveled of his or her obligation,
under the local law, to keep the walk shoveled. If police thereafter determine that the sidewalk in question
remains unshoveled, the Superintendent of Public Works will be notified
and will cause to have the sidewalk shoveled by Village employees.
The cost of such shoveling will be computed at $1 per foot of sidewalk
shoveled or a minimum bill of $25. The information, including the
cost, will be given to the Village Clerk who, in turn, will bill the
resident whose sidewalk was shoveled by the Village. Any such bills
remaining unpaid when Village property taxes are next levied will
become a lien on the property in question.
During hours employees of the Department of
Public Works (including the Water Department) are not normally at
work, the Police Department and/or Fire Department may be notified
of any emergency and will relay such information to an appropriate
employee of the Department of Public Works, who shall deal with the
situation. A list of persons to be called will be provided to both
Departments by the Superintendent of Public Works.
The Village of Carthage Department of Public
Works will clean ditches in the Village once a year. In between each
annual cleaning by the Village, owners of property on which ditches
are located will be responsible for maintaining those ditches in satisfactory
condition. The local law of 1959 prohibiting dumping in ditches will
be strictly enforced.
When the Village Board contracts with a person
or persons to cut down a tree on Village property, the contract must
take into consideration the useful value of the wood from the tree
and the disposal of the residue.