Township of Mantua, NJ
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2023-06-12
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 325 Sewer and Water
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Article II Prohibited Discharges
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 12 Claims Approval
- Ch 17 Court, Joint Municipal
- Ch 22 Emergency Medical and First Aid/Rescue
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Farmland Preservation Assistance Trust
- Ch 38 Fire District and Board of Fire Commissioners
- Ch 45 Intermunicipal Assistance
- Ch 50 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 56 Officers and Employees
- Ch 63 Personnel Policies
- Ch 69 Police Department
- Ch 75 Public Contracts
- Ch 78 Revenue and Finance, Department of
- Ch 82 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 88 Tax Collector
- Ch 93 Utilities Authority
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 98 Affordable Housing Development Fees
- Ch 102 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 114 Amusements
- Ch 120 Animals
- Ch 130 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 134 Cannabis and Cannabis Products
- Ch 137 Checks, Dishonored
- Ch 142 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 143 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 148 Contractors
- Ch 154 Curfew
- Ch 161 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 172 Fill
- Ch 177 Firearms
- Ch 182 Fire Prevention
- Ch 188 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 193 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 197 Games of Chance
- Ch 199 Glauconite Mining
- Ch 204 Gravel Pits
- Ch 210 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 214 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 217 Housing Standards
- Ch 219 Invasive Plant Species
- Ch 220 Island of Safety
- Ch 225 Junkyards
- Ch 230 Land Development
- Ch 236 Landfill
- Ch 242 Licensing
- Ch 247 Littering
- Ch 258 Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 263 Motor Vehicle Sales
- Ch 269 Noise
- Ch 275 Obscene Material Display
- Ch 280 Pallet Yard Operations
- Ch 285 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 291 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 296 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 300 Portable Storage Containers
- Ch 302 Property Maintenance
- Ch 308 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 313 Recreational Vehicles and Parks
- Ch 318 Rent Control
- Ch 325 Sewer and Water
- Ch 325 Art II Prohibited Discharges
- § 325-8 Illegal discharges into sewers prohibited.
- § 325-9 Definitions.
- § 325-10 Responsibility for violations.
- § 325-11 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 338 Solid Waste, Source Separation and Recycling
- Ch 344 Stormwater Control
- Ch 346 Stormwater Management
- Ch 350 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 359 Taxation
- Ch 365 Taxicabs
- Ch 375 Towing
- Ch 381 Transportation Services
- Ch 387 Trees
- Ch 394 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 400 Vehicles, Motor-Propelled
- Ch 411 Yard Sales
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 420 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 431 Fees
- Ch 439 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 446 Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 452 Swimming Pools
- Ch 459 Tattoos and Body Art
- Ch 465 Tobacco and Tobacco Products
- Ch 472 Weed Control
- Appendix
- Ch A481 Street Acceptances, Vacations and Dedications
- Ch A482 Street Name Changes
- Ch A483 Television Franchise
- Ch A484 Water Company Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-30-1980 (Ch. 130, Art. II, of the 1978 Code)]
No person shall discharge or permit the discharge
of any solid, semisolid or liquid waste into any of the sanitary sewer
lines located within the Township of Mantua, including those lines
owned or controlled by the Mantua Township Municipal Utilities Authority
or the Gloucester County Utilities Authority or anyone else, except
any discharge made through a lawful sewer connection approved by the
appropriate authority and in a manner consistent with the regulations
of the approving authority.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any and all public bodies or private entities that have jurisdiction
to regulate sanitary sewers in Mantua Township.
Any natural or judicially recognized person, including business
entities such as proprietorships, partnerships and corporations.
Includes any material or matter which is discharged into
a sanitary sewer line, including septage or septic tank wastes.
In the case of an employee of a person, where
the employee actually causes the illegal discharge to take place,
both the employee and the person employing him shall be deemed to
have violated this article, unless the person employing can prove
he directed the employee to properly dispose of the waste in a legal
disposal area and had no knowledge of the employee's intent to illegally
dispose of the waste.
A.
Any person, entity or corporation who or which violates
any provision of this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punishable by one or more of the following: imprisonment in the county
jail or any place provided by the municipality for the detention of
prisoners for a term up to but not exceeding 90 days or by a fine
of not less than $100 and not more than $2,000 or by a period of community
service up to but not exceeding 90 days, or any combination of the
above.
B.
Each incident of illegal discharge shall constituted
a separate offense for the purpose of imposing the penalties referred
to above.
