As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged and includes, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats, apartments,
stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO A PUBLIC SEWER
Property which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of, such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this municipality. Such
term includes lateral lines from a main street to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
SEWER AUTHORITY
Any sewer committee or department of the municipality or
any other agency operating public sewers for or at the request of
the governing body of the municipality.
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the sewer authority
charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice of that fact
to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the
municipality, such notice to state that owners of property accessible
to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building are compelled
to make connection therewith pursuant to this article. A copy of such
notice, together with a copy of this article and any ordinance then
in effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer rents, shall be
mailed to each person known to the sewer authority to own property
accessible to such sewer, but failure to mail such copies or defect
in the mailed copies or defect in the mailing thereof shall not affect
the validity of the notice.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to a public sewer under the provisions of §
386-5 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage, and any such prohibited devices shall be cleaned and filled in with clean bankrun gravel or dirt within 30 days following the date on which the aforesaid connection is required to be made. Any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device constructed or used in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance, which shall be abated as provided by law.
No connection shall be made to any public sewer except upon
payment of the prescribed connection fee and upon permit issued by
the sewer authority pursuant to rules and regulations regarding connections
promulgated by the sewer authority and approved by the governing body
of the municipality. No person shall make any connections with or
opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the sewer authority.
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by §
386-5 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the sewer authority shall report such failure to the governing body of the municipality, who may proceed as permitted by law to enter upon the property, make such connection and collect the cost thereof by municipal lien or otherwise.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be
served by the sewer authority with written notice stating the nature
of the violation and prescribing a reasonable time limit for the correction
thereof. Any person continuing such a violation beyond such time limit
shall be subject to fine in an amount not exceeding $100 for each
offense. Each separate building or dwelling unit in respect of which
a violation occurs and each ninety-day period during which a violation
continues shall be deemed a separate offense.