It shall be unlawful to place, deposit or discharge
or to permit or cause to be placed, deposited or discharged any human
or animal excrement, garbage, sewage, domestic wastes, commercial
waste or industrial waste upon any public or private property or into
any body of ground- or surface water within the Village of South Glens
Falls or any area under the jurisdiction of the Village unless treatment
has first been provided therefor in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain
any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended
or used for the disposal of animal excrement, garbage, sewage or domestic,
commercial or industrial wastes, except as provided in this chapter.
The owner(s) of any building(s) or property(ies)
situated within the Village or any area under the Village's jurisdiction
and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way on which a public
sanitary or combined sewer of the Village is located shall be required,
at his own expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein
or thereon and to connect such facilities directly with the proper
public sewer in accordance with the terms of this chapter within 90
days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that said
public sewer is within 100 feet of his property line.
No person shall discharge or cause to be or
permit to be discharged into the Village sewer system or into or onto
any private sewage disposal system or other area within the Village
of South Glens Falls or any area under the Village's jurisdiction
any substance which is otherwise prohibited by federal, state or local
law, and any such person shall be liable to the Village and/or city
for additional treatment costs incurred by the Village and/or city
as a result of such discharge and/or the amount of any damages to
the Village's sewer system caused by such discharge.
