A. Right to order violator to disconnect.
(1) The Sewer Superintendent shall have the right to serve any sewer user with a complaint and notice to appear before the Mayor and Common Council to show cause why he/she should not be ordered to disconnect from the sewer system for violations of this article. Said complaint shall specify the particular violations of this article with which the sewer user is charged. Said notice shall provide for a hearing to be held before the Mayor and Common Council in not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days from the date of the serving of said complaint and notice.
(2) After hearing the charges contained within said complaint and after having given the sewer user the right to be heard, the Mayor and Common Council shall have the right, if it finds the sewer user to be guilty of any violations as charged, to order the sewer user to comply with the provisions of this article which he/she has been guilty of violating, within 30 days of the date of said finding of guilt. The Mayor and Common Council shall have the further right to order the sewer user to disconnect from the sewer system at the end of said thirty-day period if the sewer user has failed to comply with the order of the Mayor and Common Council.
(3) The Mayor and Common Council shall have the further right to extend the thirty-day period for such additional period of time as it deems appropriate, upon a showing by the sewer user that said thirty-day period imposes undue hardship.
B. Criminal sanctions.
(1) Any person or persons who shall admit into the public sewers any industrial waste, as defined and set forth in § 226-8B of this article, without securing the prior approval of the Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Hammonton or any waste prohibited under § 226-9 of this article shall be subject to prosecution in the Municipal Court of the Town of Hammonton for the violation of this section of this article and shall, upon being convicted of such violation, be subject to one or more of the following: a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for a period not to exceed 90 days or a period of community service not to exceed 90 days. Each day that said person or persons shall continue said violation shall be a separate violation.
(2) Any person who shall tamper with any meter or other device related to the determination of sewer rentals shall be considered a disorderly person and shall be subject, upon conviction of such offense, to the penalties provided in Subsection A above.
C. Interpretation of enforcement provisions. The imposition of the sanctions set forth by § 226-12A shall be independent of the involving of the punitive provisions of § 226-12B, and the prosecution of the violation under either § 226-12A or B shall not be a bar or defense to the imposition of a second prosecution under the other appropriate subsection.