[Amended 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 28-2017[1]]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "East Hampton
Town Sanitary Systems Law."
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law also changed the title
of this chapter from “Scavenger Waste” to its current
title.
[Amended 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 28-2017]
The purpose of this chapter is to assure the proper siting,
construction and maintenance of all individual on-site sanitary systems
(septic tanks, cesspools, leaching fields, etc.). By so doing, it
is intended to protect and preserve the Town's natural resources and
potable water supply and thereby the public health and safety and
to promote the installation and proper use of low-nitrogen sanitary
systems.
[Amended 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 28-2017; 12-10-2019 by L.L. No. 36-2019]
Unless indicated by specific language to the contrary, the provisions
of this chapter shall apply to all properties located in the Town
of East Hampton. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the installation of
a pool house shall not be required to install or connect to a low-nitrogen
sanitary system if the Building Inspector determines that such connection
cannot be reasonably accomplished without significant additional costs
to the property owner.
Unless the context indicates otherwise, the
following terms shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have the
following meanings:
Any in-ground wastewater disposal system which incorporates
or operates as a combined septic tank/drain field process without
a separate and distinct septic tank as defined herein. See "drain
field" and "septic tank."[1]
A title field consisting of perforated pipes located in below-ground
trenches, or a circular below-grade tank with openings in the sidewalls,
which serves to allow clarified effluent from a septic tank to percolate
into the ground.
A property interest in land owned by another entitling its
holder to a specific limited use.
An on-site wastewater disposal system of any configuration
which is pumped out more than one time in any thirty-day period.
A form of permit, issued in lieu of a building permit, together
with continuing obligations on the part of the property owner, issued
in circumstances in which an existing sanitary system is proposed
to be replaced voluntarily, with a low-nitrogen system, with no expansion
of sanitary system capacity, no increase in the proposed occupancy
of the premises, and no proposed change in use of the premises.
[Added 12-10-2019 by L.L.
No. 36-2019]
Any sanitary system that has been approved by the Suffolk
County Department of Health Services that has shown to reduce nitrogen
levels to 19 milligrams or less per liter, until such time as the
Suffolk County Department of Health Services approves a sanitary system
that reduces nitrogen levels to 10 milligrams or less per liter, at
which time that will constitute a low-nitrogen sanitary system, and
the previous systems reducing to 19 milligrams or less will no longer
constitute a low-nitrogen sanitary system.
[Added 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 28-2017]
Any in-ground cesspool, septic tank or drain field as defined
herein, or any combination of such structures, used for the disposal
of sanitary sewage and normal domestic wastes generated on or near
the property on which the system is located, and sometimes referred
to as a "disposal system" or simply a "system." Compare a "sewage
treatment plant."
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, organization or other recognized legal entity of any kind,
including municipal corporations or other governmental agencies or
subdivisions thereof, excluding only the Town of East Hampton.
[Amended 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 28-2017]
The Building Inspector, Environmental Protection Director,
and any Town employee(s) authorized by resolution of the Town Board,
or qualified third party retained by resolution of the Town Board,
to carry out one or more of the functions assigned herein to the Sanitation
Inspector or simply to the Inspector.[2]
[Amended 12-10-2019 by L.L. No. 36-2019]
Any buried, watertight receptacle designed and constructed
to receive wastewater from a home, business enterprise or other source,
to separate solids from liquid, to provide limited digestion of organic
matter, to store solids and to allow the clarified liquid to then
pass on to other structures for percolation into the ground.[3]
The person in charge of the operation and maintenance of
the scavenger waste treatment plant.
[1]
Editor’s Note: The former definitions of “board”
and “carter,” which immediately preceded this definition,
and the former definition of “district,” which immediately
followed this definition, were repealed 8-8-2017 by L.L. No. 28-2017.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of "scavenger waste"
and "scavenger waste treatment plant," which immediately followed
this definition, were repealed 8-8-2017 by L.L. No. 28-2017.
[3]
Editor’s Note: The former definitions of “sewage
treatment plant” and “sludge,” which immediately
followed this definition, were repealed 8-8-2017 by L.L. No. 28-2017.
