A.
Any person who violates an order of the Director or Town Board or fails to comply with any provisions of this chapter, the Act, pretreatment standards or pretreatment requirements or wastewater discharge permits issued hereunder may be assessed a civil administrative penalty not to exceed $5,000 per day for each violation. Each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.
[Amended 10-16-1995 by L.L. No. 27, 1995]
B.
Any person who violates an order of the Director or Town Board or fails to comply with any provisions of this chapter, the Act, pretreatment standards or pretreatment requirements or wastewater discharge permits issued hereunder may be assessed a civil judicial penalty not to exceed $7,500 per day for each violation. Each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.
[Amended 10-16-1995 by L.L. No. 27, 1995]
C.
All civil administrative or civil judicial penalties recovered hereunder shall be paid to the Town and credited to the Sewer Department's operation and maintenance fund. In addition to the penalties provided herein, the Town may recover all costs associated with monitoring, testing and controlling improper discharges, as well as court costs, court reporters' fees, recoverable attorneys' fees and other expenses of litigation, in an appropriate legal action against the person found to have violated this chapter or limitations or conditions of a wastewater discharge permit issued thereunder.