Town of Geneva, NY
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2023-08-08
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 159 Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Individual
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Article I Introductory Provisions
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 8 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 14 Drug and Alcohol Policy
- Ch 20 Ethics
- Ch 29 Meeting Videoconferencing
- Ch 31 Mutual Aid
- Ch 41 Procurement Policy
- Ch 48 Terms of Office
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 53 Adult Uses
- Ch 55 Animals
- Ch 63 Building Construction, Fire Prevention and Energy Conservation
- Ch 68 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 70 Burning, Open Fires
- Ch 71 Community Choice Aggregation Program
- Ch 75 Erosion Control and Stormwater Management
- Ch 77 (Reserved)
- Ch 80 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 84 Games of Chance
- Ch 90 Junk Storage
- Ch 102 Manufactured Homes
- Ch 106 Noise
- Ch 110 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 114 Personal Wireless Telecommunications Transmitting Facilities
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 117 Right to Farm
- Ch 118 Sewers
- Ch 123 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 129 Soil Erosion
- Ch 130 Solar Energy Systems
- Ch 131 Solid-Fuel-Fired Outdoor Heating Devices
- Ch 132 Solid Waste
- Ch 136 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 141 Swimming Pools
- Ch 146 Taxation
- Ch 150 Vehicles, Abandoned, and Property and Sidewalk Maintenance
- Ch 155 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 159 Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Individual
- Ch 159 Art I Introductory Provisions
- § 159-1 Title.
- § 159-2 Applicability.
- § 159-3 Purpose.
- § 159-4 Authority.
- Ch 161 Water
- Ch 163 Wind Energy Facilities
- Ch 165 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A170 Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
This chapter shall be known as the "On-Site Individual Wastewater Treatment
System Law of the Town of Geneva."
This chapter shall govern the treatment of sewage by regulating all
on-site individual wastewater treatment systems (hereinafter referred to as
a wastewater treatment system).
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety and general
welfare of the community, including the protection and preservation of the
property of its inhabitants, by regulating wastewater treatment systems so
that human sewage and other wastes are disposed of in a manner that will not
create a health hazard, adversely affect the environment, create a nuisance
or impair the enjoyment or use of property.
Enactment of this chapter is pursuant to Article 2 of the Municipal
Home Rule Law and Article 3 of the Public Health Law.
