The Department of Health shall adopt and from time to time amend rules and regulations governing the location, construction, repair and abandonment of water supply and sewage disposal facilities and the installation and repair of pumps and pumping equipment and shall be responsible for the administration of this chapter.
The responsibility for complying with these rules and regulations as herein stated shall rest with the owner or lessee of the land involved.
The Department of Health shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
Any person constructing a well or constructing or repairing a subsurface sewage disposal system shall be licensed as required by the State of Connecticut and shall obtain a written permit to do such work from the Department of Health.
The Department of Health is authorized to inspect any water supply and sewage disposal facility, abandoned well or pump installation for any wells. Duly authorized representatives of the Department of Health may at reasonable times enter upon and shall be given access to any premises for the purposes of such inspection. Upon the basis of such inspections, if the Department of Health finds applicable laws, rules or regulations have not been complied with or that a health hazard exists, it shall disapprove the well, sewage disposal facility and/or pump installation with denial or suspension of applicable permits or with an order to correct the violation within a reasonable period of time. If disapproved, no well sewage disposal facility or pump shall thereafter be used until brought into compliance and any health hazard eliminated.
Where the Department of Health finds that compliance with all requirements of this chapter would result in undue hardship, an exemption from any one or more such requirements may be granted by the Department of Health to the extent such exemption can be granted without impairing the intent and purpose of this chapter.
Any person aggrieved by denial of a permit or by suspension of a permit may appeal the decision of the Director of Health to a court of competent jurisdiction.
The Department of Health shall collect a fee for permits issued in the amounts set by the Board of Selectmen.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, regulations issued hereunder, or order pursuant hereto shall be subject to a penalty of $25 every day or any part thereof in which such violation occurs.
It is not intended that the requirements of any other law or ordinance, except where stated herein, be repealed or otherwise made ineffective by this chapter, and in case of conflict the strictest of the relevant provisions of this and other laws and ordinances shall apply.