[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of North
Andover. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Board of Selectmen may declare any sewer laid in any land,
street or way, public or private, opened or proposed to be opened
for public travel, to be a common sewer and the same shall not be
laid or connected with any existing common sewer except by the Town
officials authorized by law to lay and maintain common sewers.
The Board of Health may make and enforce regulations for the
public health and safety relative to house drainage and its connections
with sewers, if a public sewer abuts the estate to be drained.
A.
No person shall enter his drain into any common sewer without a written
license from the Board of Selectmen, and any person entering under
such license shall comply with such rules and regulations as to material
and construction as the Board of Selectmen may prescribe. Said Board
may close any drain entering a common sewer for failure to comply
with the provisions of this chapter.
B.
No excavation shall be made within a public way in connecting such
private drains with a common street except under the direction of
the Director of Public Works, or other persons having charge of the
streets of the Town.
