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Editor's Note: For state law provisions related
to public utilities, see § 15.2-2109 et seq., Code of Virginia.
As to sewage disposal systems generally, see § 15.2-2122
et seq., Code of Virginia, and as to health regulations related to
sewage disposal, see § 32.1-163.1 et seq., Code of Virginia.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows. "Shall"
is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
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.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that 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.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
The Town Manager.[1]
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable therefrom
by laboratory filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
It shall be unlawful for any person to maliciously
or wilfully break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the municipal
sewage works.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the Town bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter upon any properties for the purposes of
inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter.
Any person found to be violating any provisions of this chapter, except § 355-2, shall be served by the Town with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
Any person served with a notice as provided in § 355-4 who shall continue the violation in question beyond the time limit provided for in such notice, as provided in § 355-4, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 1-3 of this Code. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
In addition to the penalty provided in § 355-5:
A.
Every user of the Town's sewerage system shall be
civilly liable in damages to the Town for any injuries to the Town's
sewerage system, or for any injuries to third persons for which the
Town is liable, caused by or resulting from a violation of any of
the provisions of this chapter.
B.
Every user of the Town's sewerage system shall be
civilly liable in damages to the Town for any injuries to the Town's
sewerage system, or any injuries to third persons for which the Town
is liable, caused by or resulting from such user discharging into
the Town's sewerage system sewage or waste of a nature or in quantities
prohibited by the statutes of the state, or prohibited by the State
Water Control Board, or prohibited by the State Health Department
or any subdivision thereof, or prohibited by any other state agency.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
or deposit, or permit to be placed or deposited, in an insanitary
manner, upon public or private property within the Town or in any
area under the jurisdiction of the Town, any human or animal excrement,
garbage or other objectionable waste.
A.
Unlawful to excrete urine or feces in public. No person
shall excrete urine or feces upon the floor, stairway or any other
part of any public building, public conveyance, sidewalk, street,
alley or lane of the Town, or on any private property where any such
conduct can be viewed or seen by any other person.
[Added 11-9-1992]
B.
Urine or feces must be excreted in toilets. No person
shall excrete urine or feces in any place or on any premises, private
or public, in the Town other than a properly maintained toilet, rest
room or temporary toilet facility that is approved by the Health Department
of the Commonwealth of Virginia for such use.
[Added 11-9-1992]
C.
Unlawful to permit animals to excrete urine or feces
on public property or streets. No person shall knowingly permit any
animal to excrete urine or feces upon the floor, stairway or any part
of any public building or place, upon the floor or any part of any
public conveyance, or upon any sidewalk, street, alley or lane of
the Town. Any excretion of feces on public property must be cleaned
immediately by the owner. No person shall knowingly permit any animal
to excrete urine or feces on private property other than on open ground,
and all feces must be cleaned immediately by the animal owner.
[Added 11-9-1992; amended 11-13-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-03]
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge
to any natural outlet within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction
of the Town any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted
waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance
with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
Except as provided in the subsequent provisions
of this chapter, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any
privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended
or used for the disposal of sewage.
The owner of any house building or property
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose
situated within the Town 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
sanitary or combined sewer of the Town shall, at his own expense,
install suitable toilet and plumbing facilities therein and connect
such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter, provided that such public sewer
is within 100 feet of the property line.
