Except as provided under the Rules of the Maine Department of Human Services, Division of Health Engineering, known as the "State Plumbing Code, Part II," and except in accordance with provisions for licensing by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for the discharge of suitably treated wastes, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of polluted water, wastewater or human excrement, or to discharge such excrement or water to any natural outlet within the Town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town.
A.
The owners of any building used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or otherwise containing plumbing systems for conveying waterborne waste, situated within the Town and abutting on any street, road or right-of-way in which there is now located or planned to be located a public sanitary sewer, excluding force mains, is hereby required to connect, at the owner's(s') expense, any said plumbing facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 120 days after the date of notice by the Superintendent to do so.
B.
The building owner may request in writing to the Superintendent deferral of this connection requirement on the basis of undue hardship if the building has an existing properly operating private wastewater disposal system, in which case the owner shall demonstrate the nature and degree of hardship. The need for the owner to pump to the public sewer shall not alone be considered a hardship.
C.
If the building owner can provide to the satisfaction of the Superintendent that a suitable private wastewater disposal system is currently in use, the owner shall be exempt from connection to the public sewer but shall be assessed a readiness-to-serve fee.
D.
During construction of a public sewer, owners of unimproved lots and land abutting such sewer have the option of having a service stub brought to the edge of the roadway at Town expense (except as provided in Article IX), in which case the property owner will be assessed the readiness-to-serve fee.