[HISTORY: Adopted by the County Commissioners
of Kent County 2-4-1992 as Bill No. 12-91. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Housing standards — See Ch. 192.
The County Commissioners, by resolution, may
from time to time adopt or amend or supplement regulations and disposal
fees to be known as "Kent County Septage Regulations."
[Amended 12-6-1994 by Bill No. 6-94; 5-3-2011 by Bill No. 1-2011]
No person shall engage in the business of cleaning
and emptying chemical toilets, septic tanks, seepage pits, privies,
private sewage treatment facilities and watertight holding tanks or
any other sewage disposal facility without obtaining a license from
the Director of Public Works.
The license required by § 136-2 shall be issued upon completion of an application and the payment of the license permit fee as may be established from time to time by resolution of the County Commissioners.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The current fee is on file
in the County offices.
A.
All solid and liquid contents removed from chemical
toilets, septic tanks, seepage pits, privies, private sewage treatment
facilities and watertight holding tanks for septic tank effluent in
Kent County shall be disposed of by discharge into the septage receiving
lagoon located at Worton, Maryland. No disposal of the same shall
be made by land application in Kent County.
B.
No solid or liquid contents removed from chemical
toilets, septic tanks, seepage pits, privies, private sewage treatment
facilities or watertight holding tanks outside of Kent County shall
be disposed of or discharged in Kent County.
Any person violating the provisions of this
chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant hereto shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000.) and imprisonment of not more than ninety (90) days.
