(A) (1) The owner of any houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes abutting any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is not located, or may in the future be located, a public sewer is hereby required, at his or her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such toilet facilities directly with the public sewer, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
(2) Roofs, paved areas, yards and courts, and courtyards may be drained into a storm sewer system. Drainage from the above cited sources and storm water shall not be drained into sanitary sewers.
(3) In no instances shall septic tanks, cesspools, privies, privy vaults, or other facilities be used for the disposal of sewerage, except where approved by the Town Services Superintendent of the Street, Water, and Sewer Department, and a public sewer is not available.
(4) Motor vehicle and farm equipment washing facilities must be connected to the sanitary sewer. Water from the wash area must flow through a sump designed to trap solids and other waste material.
(Prior Code, § 4-3-23)
(B) No persons shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, to any public sewer any harmful waters or wastes, whether liquid, solid, or gas, capable of causing obstructions detrimental to the equipment and personnel of the sewerage works, or which interfere with the proper operation of the sewerage works.
(Prior Code, § 4-3-24) (Ord. passed 3-9-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99