A.
Whenever a Village sanitary sewer or tributary thereto is not available to a building or property as provided in Article IV, or whenever a property owner receives a waiver from the Article IV connection requirement pursuant to an action of the Board of Trustees under this article, then the building drain shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the requirements of NYSDEC, the Department of Health and this article.
B.
A waiver from the connection requirement of Article IV may be granted by the Board of Trustees only if the property contains not more than one non-owner-occupied dwelling unit with an existing private sewage disposal system which was installed prior to the effective date of the Village's original sewer connection requirement and has been inspected, within one month of the date of the waiver application and at the expense of the applicant, by the Village Engineer and found to be operating in accordance with all applicable laws, rules or regulations of the Village, the Department of Health and the NYSDEC.
C.
The Board of Trustees shall not consider any request for a waiver until a completed application, on Village forms, has been submitted to the Village Clerk, together with an application fee. The fee shall be that established pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Trustees.
D.
All waivers shall expire on the next proceeding 31st day of May.
E.
Any application to renew a waiver for an additional one-year period must be submitted, in accordance with the provisions of this section, no earlier than April 1 and no later than April 30 of each year.
F.
A waiver, once granted, will exempt a property from sewer use charges and rents.
G.
If a waiver is denied, or if any major repairs become necessary to a private sewage disposal system operating under a waiver, then the property owner must abandon the private system and connect to the Village sewer in accordance with Article IV. For purposes of this subsection, "major repairs" shall be those where the cost of repair or replacement exceeds 50% of the present value of the sewage disposal system (exclusive of inside plumbing fixtures and the building drain), as determined by the Board of Trustees.