This chapter shall be known as the "Town of Johnstown Sewer Use Law."
The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
A. 
To control or condition discharges into the public sewers situated in the Town of Johnstown, including the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility.
B. 
To regulate, by permit, allowable volumes and loads of industrial or other wastes for which a fixed capacity has been designed and is available at the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility and to enforce these permitted limits.
C. 
To prohibit the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes which may create, in any way, a poisonous, hazardous, explosive, flammable or toxic condition in the Town of Johnstown sewer system or at the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility.
D. 
To assess users of the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility with charges based on the cost to treat and handle the flow and pollutant loads of their wastewater and the cost associated with the plant capacity for their discharge.
E. 
To require the treatment, before introduction into any public sewer served by the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility, of such wastes as may otherwise impair the strength or life of the structures appurtenant to the system, by direct or indirect chemical, biological or physical action, interfere with the normal treatment process, pass through the sewage treatment plant into the receiving waters inadequately treated or be of such concentration as may exceed established discharge limits or interfere with proper disposal of sludge generated by the treatment plant.
F. 
To provide the authority and procedure for the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Sewer Board to promulgate rules and regulations, to investigate and prepare findings of facts, to issue permits, to hold hearings, to issue decisions, orders and opinions and to give notice and make public all rules and decisions affecting substantial rights of persons or property.
G. 
To provide cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, United States Environmental Protection Agency and any other agencies which have requirements or jurisdiction for the protection of the physical, chemical and bacteriological quality of watercourses within or bounding the city.
H. 
To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.
I. 
To enforce promulgated final standards and/or procedures set by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.