[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of West Milford as Sec. 19-11 of the 1976 Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Sewers — See Ch. 300.
Water and sewer service — See Ch. 394.
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following words shall have the following meanings:
BUILDING
Any building or structure heretofore or hereafter constructed and designed or used for dwelling purposes, either temporary or permanent, or for other use or occupancy by persons, or other building or structure the useful occupancy of which requires sanitary facilities.
CONNECTION DATE
When used with respect to a building constructed prior to the date of initial operation, as a part of any sanitary sewage treatment and disposal system in the Township, owned or operated by the Township, of the Township Municipal Utilities Authority, of a sewer in the street, upon which the building is located, means 180th day next ensuing after the date of initial operation, and when used with respect to a building constructed after the date of initial operation, as a part of any sanitary sewage treatment and disposal system owned or operated by the Township or such Authority, of a sewer in the street, upon which the building is located, means the 60th day after the date of completion of construction, or the date of initial occupancy of the building, whichever of the dates shall be earlier in point of time.
SEWER
Any sewer or main designed or used for collection or disposal of sanitary sewage and located in any street in the Township.
The owner of any building located upon any street in the Township in which a sewer is now constructed or shall be hereafter constructed shall, prior to the connection date with respect to the building, install a toilet in the building, unless a toilet is then installed therein, and connect such building and every toilet therein with the sewer.
Every connection required by this chapter shall be made with soil pipe of extra heavy cast iron, calked and leaded, extending from inside the building foundation to a sewer, or to a point which is not less than five feet outside of the foundation and connection therefrom to a sewer with soil pipe of asbestos cement or extra heavy cast iron pipe, or other material approved by any code adopted by the Department of Health. All soil pipes shall be not less than four inches in diameter, and every connection required by this chapter shall be made in a manner to discharge into the sewer all sanitary sewage originating in the building.
If the owner of any property in the Township shall fail to make any connection or installation required by this chapter within the time herein required, after notice has been given as provided for in N.J.S.A. 40A:26A-1 et seq., the Township may proceed to make such connection or installation, or cause the same to be made, and charge and assess the cost thereof against such property pursuant to the authority contained in the Revised Statutes.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the owner of any property, who shall be allowed an exception by the Department of Health of the Township to the requirements of mandatory connection to an existing sewer and to the compliance with the provisions of a mandatory connection ordinance adopted by the Department of Health.