It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to cause or allow or permit to be discharged or deposited
in any unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the
Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any
sewage, waste, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable
waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to cause, allow or permit to be discharged or deposited
within the Village any sewage, any human or animal excrement or other
sewage materials except into a public sewage system, which must have
the approval of the Board of Trustees, except as the disposal pertains
to septic systems as provided herein.
It shall be unlawful to discharge or deposit
in any natural outlet within the Village, or in any area under its
jurisdiction, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted
waters.
Except as hereinafter provided, 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 sewage.
Except for septic sewage installations as provided herein, all other
sewage disposal systems must be into a public sewerage system. No
construction of a public sewerage system shall be permitted within
the Village unless it has the approval of the Board and, where applicable,
the approval required by the laws of the State of New York. The Building
Inspector of the Village shall not issue any building permit or, where
applicable, any certificate of occupancy for any buildings where proof
is not supplied to him that the sewage disposal system is either into
a public sewerage system approved by the Board or into an approved
septic system, built in accordance with approved plans.
A.
The owner of any dwelling, building or properties
used for human occupancy or other purpose which produces sanitary
wastes, situated in the Village and abutting on any street, alley
or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future
be located a public sewerage system, is hereby required to install
suitable toilet facilities and to connect such facilities directly
with the appropriate public sewerage system in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter within 30 days after the date of official
notice to do so.
B.
If, after the expiration of said 30 days from the
date of official notification, the owner of any property affected
by the provisions of this chapter has failed to make such sewer connections
as required after receiving official notice requiring such action
as herein provided, the Village may cause such connections to be made
under the direction and supervision of the Plumbing Inspector or such
other official or department of the Village as may hereafter be designated
by the Village or may award one or more contracts for the making of
such improvements by a contractor selected by the Village on an annual
basis as a result of open, competitive bidding or may revoke the certificate
of occupancy for structures on said property. This shall not preclude
the Village from using any other remedy provided for herein.
C.
Before proceeding to make any such connection, the
Plumbing Inspector or such other official or department of the Village
as may hereafter be designated by the Village shall cause notice of
such contemplated installation or connection to be given to the owner
of any properties affected thereby. The notice shall contain a description
of the property affected, sufficiently definite in terms to identify
it, as well as a description of the required connection and notice
that, unless the connection shall be completed within 30 days after
the service thereof, the Village will proceed to make such connection
or cause the same to be done. The notice shall be served by certified
mail.
D.
When any such sewer connection shall be made by the
Village, a true and accurate account of the cost and expense shall
be kept and apportioned to the property or the properties thereby
connected with the sewers, and a true statement of such costs shall
be furnished under oath by the official or department of the Village
as may hereafter be designated by the Village with the Village Clerk.
The Village Clerk shall examine the same and, if properly made, shall
confirm it and file such statement with the Tax Collector of the Village,
who shall record the cost of the installation of the sewer connection
in the same book in which he records other assessments.
E.
Every such sewer connection charge shall bear interest
and penalties from the same time and at the same rate as assessments
for local improvements in the Village and from the time of confirmation
shall be a first and paramount lien against the respective property
or properties so connected with the sewer to the same extent as assessments
for local improvements and shall be collected and enforced in the
same manner.
F.
No such charge for sewer connections shall be invalid
by reason of any error or omission in stating the name of the owner
or owners of properties affected by such sewer connections nor for
any other informality, where such property or real estate has actually
been improved by such sewer connection.
G.
Waiver.
(1)
The Village, by resolution duly adopted, after public
hearing and within 10 days' written notice to owners within 200 feet
of the applicant's property, may waive the provisions of this article
requiring connection with the sanitary sewer system upon the following
grounds:
(2)
Said waiver shall be for a period to be determined
by the Board, such period not to exceed three years.
No statement contained in this article shall
be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may
be imposed by the Rockland County Health Department.
