[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Tatum as Ch. 8, Art. V, of the 1984 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
General penalty — See Ch. 53, § 53-11.
Buildings — See Ch. 110.
Deposit for utility services — See Ch. 136, Art. I.
Water — See Ch. 243.
The plumbing code of the State of New Mexico is hereby adopted and is to be followed in its entirety.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 8.52, Connections, of the 1984 Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
All service stations and garages with car washing equipment must have a combination sand and grease trap on the consumer's sewer line. All hotels, restaurants, cafes and boardinghouses must have grease traps on the consumer's sewer line.
The Town of Tatum will not make an extension on any sewer line where the distance exceeds 300 feet. In the event an extension is made, the charge for materials shall be at the existing rate, payable in advance.
Where the owner or owners of lots, blocks or tracts of land in the Town of Tatum pay for the construction of a main sewer or water line extension, the Town will refund 1/2 of all revenue collected from such property until the owner or owners shall have been reimbursed for the initial cost, which amount shall be paid semiannually, without interest, by the Town Clerk-Treasurer of Tatum, New Mexico. When the owner or owners have been reimbursed for such construction, the main sewer or water line or lines then become the property of the Town.
[Amended 10-8-2002[1]]
A. 
The sewer rates to be charged and collected by the Town of Tatum from each customer obtaining service from said sewer system shall be set from time to time by the governing body and are on file in the Town offices.
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All bills for service rendered by said system shall be paid monthly within 10 days after the billing date, and if said bills are not paid within 30 days after the billing date, service shall be discontinued.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
All persons owning or occupying property with occupied buildings situated in any portion of the Town within a distance of 150 feet from a sanitary sewer system line, and having suitable water service, shall be and are hereby compelled to make connections with said sewer line. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk-Treasurer to notify the owner or occupant of every building situated within 150 feet of a sanitary sewer line, where there is suitable water service, to make connections with said sanitary sewer, and any such owner or occupant of any such building so situated who shall fail to make at least one connection with such sanitary sewer within 30 days after receipt of such notice from the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
No person shall make any connection with any opening into any sewer in the Town without a permit from the governing body or its assigned representatives. Applications for permits shall be made to the Town Clerk-Treasurer by the property owner or his/her authorized representative, and such application shall give the exact location of the property, the name of the owner and the name of the person employed to do the work. No person or corporation shall injure, break or remove any portion of any manhole, lamphole, flush tank, or any part of the sanitary sewer system of the Town; and when any person or corporation shall desire to lay or drive any pipe in any of the streets or alleys in which sewers are laid, it shall give at least 24 hours' notice to the Town Clerk-Treasurer. No person or corporation shall deposit any garbage, offal, deal animals, filth or any substance having a tendency to obstruct the flow of sewage in any manhole, lamphole, flush tank or sewer opening.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or allow any person under his/her control to throw or deposit on the ground or in any hole or vault, in or under the surface of the ground, on any lot reaching within 150 feet of any sewer line, except in the proper and necessary manuring of the soil, any water which has been used for domestic purposes, or any liquid or solid filth, feces or urine.
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It shall be unlawful to allow any surface water or rainwater from the ground or roof of a building to enter into any sewer line or any vessel or slop sink connected with a sewer line, or to admit any drainage water from any cellar to a sewer line, except by permission of the governing body.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit or permit anyone under his/her control to throw or deposit in any sewer line any garbage, hair, ashes, fruit, or vegetable peelings or refuse, rags, cotton, cinder or any other matter whatsoever except feces, urine and the necessary toilet paper.[1]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
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It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to connect all wash stands or slop stands, toilets, bathtubs, sinks, lavatories and laundries in his/her house or yard with the sewer line, or to allow any slops, wash or wastewater of any kind to flow over the pavement, or under the pavement, or into any open gutter, or into the streets.
Any party or parties, hereinafter referred to as "consumers," making application for permission to connect and tap into the main sewer line shall pay a fee as set from time to time by the governing body for the business, house, residence, or other such commercial or dwelling place served by such connection, hereinafter referred to as a "unit."
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
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The Mayor, with the consent of a majority of the governing body, shall appoint a Town Plumbing Inspector, who is authorized, empowered and directed to supervise all sewer appliances, fixtures and connections in regard to their proper installation, construction, reconstruction, adjustment and repair, and see that all of the rules and regulations of the Town, as well as the State Plumbing Code, are properly complied with.
B. 
The Town Plumbing Inspector shall be subject to the order and direction of the Mayor and the governing body of the Town, and he/she is hereby vested with full authority to enter any building or premises or structure, either public or private, at any time in the discharge of his/her duties, and to pass upon and decide questions arising under the provisions of this chapter, or any rules and regulations adopted by the Mayor and governing body, relative to any such sewer appliances, fixtures, connections, piping or the installation, construction, reconstruction, and adjustment and repair thereof, or relative to the materials used therein.