[Adopted 3-8-1965 by L.L. No. 1-1965 as Ch. 35 of the 1965 Code; amended in its entirety 2-6-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
No septic tank, leaching pit, chemical toilet, privy, pipe or other means for the disposal or discharge of sewage or sink wastes shall be installed anywhere in the Town of Ramapo except as approved by the Rockland County Department of Health. Any applicant who receives an approval from the Rockland County Department of Health must file a copy of said approval with the Building Inspector.
No person, firm or corporation, either as owner, lessee or tenant of any property, dwelling, building or place, shall construct or maintain any privy, cesspool, sewage disposal system, pipe or drain so as to expose or discharge the contents or other liquid or matter therefrom to the atmosphere or on the surface of the ground or so as to endanger any source of drinking water, nor shall any such person, firm or corporation discharge into any watercourse, storm sewer, drain or body of water any sewage or sewage effluent from a cesspool, sewage disposal system, pipe or drain or any excreta from a privy vault or other receptacle for the storage of excreta unless approval in writing for such discharge shall have been issued therefor by the Rockland County Department of Health and such discharge shall be made in accordance with the requirements thereof.
Any violation of this regulation either by the occupancy of a structure without a duly authorized certificate of approval or by the installation or use of a septic tank, leaching pit, chemical toilet, privy or discharge pipe without compliance with the terms and provisions aforesaid, or any violation of the terms and provisions of this regulation, is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor and shall render the owner of the land whereon the same was installed, or tenant or the person so installing the same, or any other person guilty of a violation thereof, liable to a fine not to exceed the sum of $1,000 or to imprisonment for a period of not more than one year, or both. Each week that such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. The Town may enforce obedience to this article by injunction, and pursuit of any one remedy shall not bar the invoking of any other remedy or penalty, all of which shall be cumulative.
This regulation shall apply to all the territory within the Town of Ramapo, outside the corporate limits of the Villages of Sloatsburg, Hillburn, Suffern, Pomona, New Square and Spring Valley.