This chapter shall be cited and may be referred
to hereinafter as "A Local Law Regulating Use of Public and Private
Sewers and the Maintenance of Said Sewers Law of the Village of Airmont."
In order to protect the health, safety, and
welfare of the residents of the Village of Airmont, it is the intent
of this chapter to control the discharge of hazardous and noxious
wastes into any sewer servicing the Village of Airmont.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building down to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
The official in direct supervisory responsibility over the
agency owning or maintaining a sewer.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, surety, corporation
or group.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer on which all owners of abutting property have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residents,
business building institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
This chapter shall be read together with all
local laws and ordinances of the Village of Airmont, the Town of Ramapo,
and any other municipality which owns sewers with the Village of Airmont
and which is affected by this chapter, relating to sewer system licensing
and use, sewer rents, sewage disposal regulations and zoning regulations
hereof.
This chapter supersedes, and is in derogation
of, Chapter 37A of the Code of the Town of Ramapo, County of Rockland,
State of New York, except as regards Town Sewer District facilities
within the Village. In addition, it is not intended that this chapter
supersede the authority of the County of Rockland to regulate or control
county sewer district facilities within the Village of Airmont.