[Adopted 9-11-1923 (Ch. 101, Art. I, of the 1974 Code)]
[Amended 11-7-1994; 4-11-2016 by Ord. No.
9-2016]
A. No owner
or owners, tenant or tenants or any other occupant or occupants of
any land or building in the Borough of Westville, in the County of
Gloucester, State of New Jersey, shall permit the water from the leaders
or conductors of water from the roof of said building or wastewater
from said building to flow over or upon the sidewalks adjacent to
said building. Further, no owner or owners, tenant or tenants or occupant
or occupants of any property or other building in the Borough of Westville
shall permit the discharge of snow or ice onto any sidewalk adjacent
to such property or into any public street, avenue or highway by means
of a snow removal machine, shovel or any other device.
B. Over-the-sidewalk,
under-the-sidewalk and/or through-the-curb drains for the purpose
of disposing of water, including sump-pump discharge are hereby prohibited.
C. Owners
of existing buildings shall mitigate water discharge within the boundaries
of their property whenever possible. When mitigation of sump-pump
discharge is not possible on a residential property, connection to
the sanitary sewer is permitted with the approval of the Westville
Borough Council as per the terms and conditions of § 228-1.
D. Under no
circumstances are any other type of connections which drain stormwater
permitted to be connected in any way to the sanitary sewer system.
[Amended 9-13-1977; 3-8-2000]
A. Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as set forth in Chapter
1, Article
I, §
1-15, General penalty.
[Amended 2-13-2013 by Ord. No. 2-2013]
B. Any person who is convicted of violating the provisions of this article
within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same article
and who was fined for the previous violation shall be sentenced by
the court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional
fine imposed by the court for a repeated offense shall not be less
than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation
of this article, but shall be calculated separately from the fine
imposed for the original violation of this article. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate
offense.