Within one year after a public sewer becomes available to a commercial or multi-family property served by a private sewage disposal or treatment system, or whenever a single family residence private sewage disposal or treatment system fails and is no long operational and a public sewer is available, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools, or similar private sewage facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material or removed. The town shall give written notice to all owners when service is available and the one-year time limit specified in this section for commercial or multi-family properties shall run from the date of said notice. The town shall consider a public sewer available to a property when a public sewer line is within 300 feet of any property line.
(`87 Code, § 17-4-5(C)) (Ord. 94-06, passed 3-7-94; Ord. No. O-2002-03, passed 1-22-02) Penalty, see § 50.999