The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the
use of public and private sewers and drains, private disposal, the
installation and connection of building sewers, and the discharge
of waters and wastes into the public sewer system in the Village of
Cooperstown, and to provide penalties for violations thereof in order
to prevent adverse effects of sewage wastes on the environment of
the Village or on the health of its inhabitants.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive. Unless
the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms
used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Administrator of the Village of Cooperstown, or his authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
ASTM
The latest edition of the American Society for Testing and
Materials publications.
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 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDER
Any person, persons or corporation which undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable
building.
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; also termed a "street lateral."
CODES OFFICIAL
The person appointed to that position by the Village Board
of Trustees.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm or corporation approved by the Village Board
to do work in the Village insofar as this chapter is concerned.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons or corporation which undertakes to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person,
corporation or group having title to property.
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 which have been shredded to such 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,
PROPERTY LINE
The curbline if the building sewer is to connect with the
public sewer in a public street. "Property line" shall mean the nearest
edge of a sewer right-of-way in those instances where the building
sewer connects to the public sewer in a right-of-way.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid wastes of dwellings and other domestic-related
activities such as restaurants and laundries, including garbage, human
excreta, kitchen and laundry wastes.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
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.
VILLAGE
The Village of Cooperstown, New York.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
The Administrator, the Codes Official and other
duly authorized employees of the Village bearing proper credentials
and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties
for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling
and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.