(A) Bylaws, rules and regulations. The Board of Trustees of the town shall, in accordance with the statutes of Indiana, make and enforce whatever bylaws, rules and regulations it may deem necessary for the safe, economical and efficient management of the town's sewage works, for the construction and use of building sewers and connections to the sewerage system, in general, for the implementation of the provisions of this subchapter.
(B) Requirements for connecting to public sewers.
(1) No owner or occupant of any real property shall tap or drain either directly or indirectly into any public sewer until a sewer tap permit has been obtained and until he has satisfied his obligation to pay all assessments, reimbursements or pro rata shares of sewer extension costs lain against that property for public sewers installed to serve it. A tap permit given in error or sewerage service charges billed to a property in error shall not operate to nullify any such obligation that has been duly recorded.
(2) The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to require an owner of real property to disconnect from a building sewer which drains into a sanitary sewer any downspouts, yard drains or other drains which carry the runoff of natural precipitation. Property owners shall have 30 days after notice to comply with any such requirements. The Board of Trustees shall not authorize any tap permit which will cause excess flow, BOD and/or Suspended Solid loading of the wastewater treatment plant, force mains, lift stations or sewers.
(C) Extensions of sewers outside corporate limits. The installation, construction or extension of sewers by the town outside the corporate limits of the town and the connection or extension of sewers into the town's sewerage system from, by or for properties located outside such limits shall be prohibited, except upon prior approval by the Board of Trustees of the town by duly enacted ordinance.
(D) Connections to sewerage system by certain out-of-town properties. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 51.31(C), the Board of Trustees of the town shall have the authority to permit a property located outside the corporate limits of the town to connect to an existing sewer which is part of the town's sewerage system, provided the property abuts, adjoins and is immediately contiguous to the street, alley or easement in which such sewer is located and provided the property owner or occupant has complied with the conditions set out in § 51.31(B).
(E) New connections from inflow sources. The town shall prohibit any new connections from inflow sources into the sanitary sewer portions of the sewerage system and shall ensure that new sewers and connections to the sanitary sewers are properly designed and connected.
(F) Terms. The terms of this subchapter shall be applicable to all users in the service area.
(G) Amendment. The town reserves the right to amend this subchapter, including the user charges and/or surcharges herein established, in part or in whole, as provided and permitted by the statutes of the State of Indiana, whenever it may deem it necessary.
(Ord. 11-3-75, passed 11-3-1975) Penalty, see § 51.99