The owners of all houses, buildings or properties occupied for residential or other purposes, situated within the Town, are hereby required at his/her or their expense to install suitable toilet and wastewater facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 3, within 90 days after the effective date of this Part 3.
No connection shall be made to the public sewer for the benefit of any property within the Town unless such property is also connected to the Town water system and has one or more water meters measuring the amount of water consumed upon the premises.
All building sewers and appurtenances thereto shall be maintained in proper working order in accordance with the requirements of this Part 3 by the owner of the property served by the building sewer. In the event the building sewer and/or appurtenances is not so maintained, the Supervisor or other authorized representative of the Town of Potsdam may terminate sewage collection service to the property until such time as repairs have been made to the satisfaction of the Supervisor. The Town of Potsdam shall perform no repairs to any building sewer or appurtenances thereto except such temporary repairs as may be necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the public sewer, or to abate a potential threat to the public health. The property owner shall reimburse the Town for the cost of any such repairs made by the Town. All such costs shall be added to the property owner's next quarterly sewer service bill if not sooner paid, and such costs shall be considered additional sewer rent for the purposes of its collection and for purposes of the provisions of this Part 3 pertaining to the enforcement of collection of sewer rents.
If the Supervisor is contacted regarding an interruption of the flow of sewage through a building sewer, the Supervisor or his/her designated representative shall investigate to determine whether the interruption is attributable to any restriction of flow though the public sewer, and if so, the Supervisor shall undertake appropriate corrective action. If the Supervisor determines that the pubic sewer is not the cause of the interruption, the property owner or the person reporting the interruption shall be so notified and it shall be the responsibility of the proper owner to take corrective measures to restore the flow of sewage through the building sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 3, and in addition, the property owner shall pay the Town of Potsdam a fee of $100 to reimburse the Town for the expense of the Supervisor's investigation. This fee shall be added to the property owner's next quarterly sewer service bill if not sooner paid, and this fee shall be considered additional sewer rent for the purposes of its collection and for purposes of the provisions of this Part 3 pertaining to the enforcement of collection of sewer rents.