§ 52.003 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said town, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
   (B)   No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer under the jurisdiction of the town, either directly or indirectly, stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, noncontact cooling water, or other unpolluted water.
   (C)   Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, noncontact cooling water, or other unpolluted water may be admitted to storm sewers under the jurisdiction of the town which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall connect to such storm sewers, however, without the specific written permission of the Town Manager.
   (D)   No person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the town, any wastewater, sewage, or other water containing pollutants except where suitable treatment has been provided in the accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and an NPDES permit.
   (E)   No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet in the town, or in any areas under the jurisdiction of the town, any wastewater, sewage, or other polluted water except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this subchapter and an NPDES permit.
   (F)   Except as provided in the private sewage disposal system ordinance, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain in the town any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
   (G)   The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now or may hereafter be located a public sanitary sewer under the jurisdiction of the town, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet and sanitary facilities therein and to connect such facilities with the proper public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sanitary sewer is within 300 feet of the property line. Any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be filled with suitable material.
   (H)   No new connection to the town's sewage works shall be approved that would create either a hydraulic or organic overload on the treatment plant, which is herein defined as any discharge that will exceed 10% of the dry weather design capacity of the collection system or treatment plant, without an approved containment or pretreatment plan.
(Prior Code, § 9-60) (Ord. 2009-7, passed 9-15-2009; Ord. 2020-06, passed 9-8-2020) Penalty, see § 52.999