[Adopted 3-14-1964 ATM by Art. 41]
The purpose of this article is to promote the health, safety, convenience
and welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Shapleigh by providing for the
location and construction of septic tanks and private sewage disposal systems
with a view to the maintaining of pollution-free lakes, ponds, rivers, streams
and similar watercourses.
[Amended 3-10-1973 ATM by Art. 42]
No septic tank or other system of private sewage disposal shall be located
nearer than 100 feet to any well or spring used as a water supply for domestic
purposes or any lake or other body of water used as a source of public supply,
except a septic tank or any other tank or similar receptacle directly receiving
sewage for the purpose of pumping it to a suitable disposal system located
over 100 feet from such water supplies; nor shall any such septic tank or
other system of private sewage disposal be placed nearer than 100 feet to
the normal high-water mark of any lake, pond, river, stream or similar watercourse
unless the effluent therefrom is to be pumped at least 100 feet away from
such waters in the same manner as indicated above.
[Added 3-10-1973 ATM by Art. 42]
Each person, firm or corporation who shall violate a provision of this
article or who fails to comply therewith or with any of the requirements contained
therein, or who shall install or permit to be installed any septic disposal
system in the Town of Shapleigh without first having obtained a permit therefor,
shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion
thereof during which any violation of any provision of this article is committed
or continued, and upon conviction of such violation each such person shall
be punished within the limits and as provided by the laws of the State of
Maine.