It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the Town of Lenox any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste. Exceptions are to be granted by the Town Board to an owner or lessee for the deposit of animal excrement acting in the normal course of crop gardening operations or farming.
It shall be unlawful to discharge into any watercourse, either directly or through any storm sewer, within the Town, any sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters. Use of separate storm sewers and sanitary sewers is mandatory for all future construction in the Town. No combined sewers will be allowed to be constructed in the future.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage in the Town.
A. 
The owner of any house, building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes which generate, are capable of generating, and/or discharge sewage, situated within a sewer district and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way for utilities or utility easements in which there is located a public sanitary sewer of the Town, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1 within one year after the date of official notice to do so is issued, provided that the property's service lateral is within five feet of the property line, as defined in § 102-1 of this Part 1.
[Amended 11-12-1984 by L.L. No. 4-1984]
B. 
The owner of new houses or buildings constructed within a sewer district and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way for utilities or utility easements in which there is located a public sanitary sewer of the Town shall be required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1 prior to occupancy of the house or building, provided that the property's service lateral extension is located within five feet of the property line, as defined in § 102-1 of this Part 1.
Whenever the property's service lateral extension is more than five feet from the property line of a new house or building constructed within a sewer district or any existing house or building included in a sewer district after enactment of this Part 1, the owner of such house or building shall comply with the provisions of § 102-23 of this Part 1.
The requirements of §§ 102-5 and 102-6 shall apply when the distance across the property from the house or building to the property line is 200 feet or less. No house or building capable of generating or discharging sewage located more than 200 feet from the property line as defined in § 102-1 of this Part 1 shall be required to connect to the sewer line. However, any such house or building shall be served by a sewage disposal system which complies with rules and regulations of all controlling agencies and this Part 1.
If connected to a sewer, the owner shall remain connected and liable to sewer service charges unless the building or structure is demolished and notice given to the Town. Disconnections of water service or removal of plumbing facilities shall not relieve the owner from the provisions of this Part 1.