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Village of Johnson City, NY
Broome County
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It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited in any unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the village or in any other area under the jurisdiction of the village any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge any sewage or other polluted waters into any natural watercourse within the village or within any area under jurisdiction of the village except where such discharge is in accordance with requirements of regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over wastewater discharges into the watercourse.
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose situated within the village and abutting on any street or public right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer within one hundred (100) feet [thirty and five-tenths (30.5) meters] of the property line is hereby required to install, at his or her expense, suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sanitary sewer line, in accordance with the provisions of this Part 3 and with any applicable requirements of the village plumbing code.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 200, Plumbing.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, with the exception that when one (1) building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available nor can be constructed to the rear building, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building. The whole shall be considered as one (1) building sewer. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found by the Director of Services to meet all other requirements of this Part 3.