It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner, on public
or private property within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said municipality, any human or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable
waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic sewage onto the surface
of the ground or discharge it in a way that permits it to come to
the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system
so that sewage flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively
for stormwater.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
municipality, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this Part 2.
No property owner, builder or developer shall
be issued a building permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this Part 2, is available. All housing construction
or building development which takes place after this Part 2 is enacted
shall provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool,
septic tank or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes,
situated within the City 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 sewer is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install
suitable sanitary facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions
of this Part 2 within 90 days after official notice to do so, provided
that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
The use of the City public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
174-16, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent,
who determines that one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity at any time or any specific purpose of this
Part 2 is being violated, the City Council shall have the authority
to limit or deny new connections to the POTW until the conditions
leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by:
A. Construction of new facilities.
B. Enlarging existing facilities.
C. Correction of inflow and infiltration.
D. Cleaning and repairing of existing facilities.
All requirements, directives and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the City Council, NYSDEC,
USEPA and/or other such state or federal agencies which have enforcement
powers.