Town of Niskayuna, NY
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2023-04-25
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 173 Sewers
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Article I Subsoil Drain Discharge
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Alternate Members: Planning Board and Zoning Commission
- Ch 4 Building Department
- Ch 8 Charitable Contributions
- Ch 11 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 17 Ethics
- Ch 27 Officers and Employees
- Ch 31 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 39 Purchasing
- Ch 40 Records Management
- Ch 41 Retirement
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 46 Adult Use Businesses
- Ch 47 Advertising Materials
- Ch 51 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
- Ch 55 Alarm Systems, Emergency
- Ch 59 Amusement Games and Game Rooms
- Ch 65 Bingo
- Ch 69 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 75 Building Construction
- Ch 76 Cannabis
- Ch 77 Community Choice Aggregation Program
- Ch 81 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 82 Chickens, Regulation of
- Ch 87 Electrical Inspections
- Ch 89 Elevators
- Ch 91 Entertainment, Public
- Ch 95 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 98 Fees
- Ch 101 Firearms
- Ch 105 Fire Prevention
- Ch 107 Fires, Open
- Ch 113 Fireworks
- Ch 117 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 123 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 127 Games of Chance
- Ch 128 Garage Sales
- Ch 129 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 130 Historic Preservation Code
- Ch 134 Illicit Discharges and Connections to Storm Sewer
- Ch 135 Institutions, Medical, Nursing and Custodial
- Ch 139 Property Maintenance
- Ch 140 Fair Housing
- Ch 142 Noise
- Ch 144 Notification of Defects
- Ch 146 Outdoor Furnaces and Outdoor Woodburning Boilers
- Ch 147 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 151 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 155 Plumbers, Registration of
- Ch 157 Plumbing Permits and Inspections
- Ch 159 Prostitution
- Ch 163 Recycling
- Ch 167 Restaurants
- Ch 169 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 170 Septage Disposal
- Ch 173 Sewers
- Ch 173 Art I Subsoil Drain Discharge
- § 173-1 Prohibited discharge.
- § 173-2 Effect on present connections.
- § 173-3 Penalties for offenses.
- Ch 179 Soil Disturbance
- Ch 180 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 185 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 189 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 193 (Reserved)
- Ch 197 Taxation
- Ch 201 Trees
- Ch 202 Underage Consumption of Alcohol and Use of Drugs at Private Parties
- Ch 203 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 205 Vehicles, Junk
- Ch 207 Vehicles, Recreation
- Ch 209A (Reserved)
- Ch 209B Vehicles, School Buses
- Ch 215 Water
- Ch 217 Watershed
- Ch 218 Wind Energy Facilities
- Ch 220 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A225 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A235 Zoning Board of Appeals Rules and Regulations
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 4-5-1949]
A.
No subsoil drain or drains below ground inside or
outside of a building shall be allowed to discharge into any sanitary
sewer within a sanitary sewer district in the Town of Niskayuna.
B.
A subsoil drain or drains will be allowed to empty
into a leaching pool not less than 20 feet from any building or will
be allowed to be connected to a storm sewer or ditch on the street
or road joining the property.
[Amended 3-1-2011 by L.L. No. 4-2011]
This article shall apply to all drainage connections
to the sanitary sewer.
[Amended 3-1-2011 by L.L. No. 4-2011]
A.
A violation
of any provision of this article by any person, firm, business entity
or corporation that owns, occupies, controls and/or maintains a single-
or two-family dwelling shall be an offense punishable, upon conviction
thereof, by a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $100. Each
day that a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
B.
A violation
of any provision of this article by any person, firm, business entity
or corporation that owns, occupies, controls and/or maintains a multifamily
dwelling for three or more families or a commercial building shall
be an offense punishable, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not
less than $50 and not more than $100 times the number of sewer units
assessed to the dwelling or building. (Example: 10 sewer units equals
a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000). Each day that
a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
