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 City of Port Jervis or in any area under the jurisdiction
of the 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 City of Port Jervis, or in any area under the jurisdiction of
the 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. Except as provided in §§ 445-19 and 445-20, all housing construction or building development which takes place after this chapter is enacted shall provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for
human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated
within the City of Port Jervis, 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(are) 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 City of Port Jervis public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in § 445-14, 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 area of the POTW.
Upon the recommendation of the Director, who determines that
one or more segments of the POTW are exceeding its hydraulic capacity
at any time; any specific purpose of this chapter is being violated;
upon notification by the DEP that the POTW Treatment Plant is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity or influent loading as defined in 6 NYCRR Part
750-2.9, the City Of Port Jervis Common Council shall have the authority
to limit or deny new connections to the POTW until the conditions
leading to the moratorium have been corrected. Such correction may
be by:
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 City of Port Jervis Common Council,
NYSDEC, USEPA, and/or by the Director and/or other such state or federal
agencies which have enforcement powers.
Under certain circumstances, an exception to § 445-14 may be permitted for construction and maintenance of certain private septic systems, privy vaults, septic tanks, cesspools, seepage pits or other types of wastewater disposal systems or facilities, which are of a design which has been approved by the Director and the City Planning Board and which meet the standards and requirements of the building and sanitary codes of the City of Port Jervis, as well as the requirements for an exception to connection to the public sewer under this chapter. This § 445-19 provision may apply in those circumstances when the public sewer system is not within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line or in other special circumstances when hookup to the public sewer system may not be feasible but construction of another type of wastewater system will meet the City's building and sanitary codes.
