(A) No person, persons, firm or corporation shall have the right to connect any property with the sewer system of the town, and no connection with the sanitary sewer system of the town shall be made until the owner of such property, or his or her agent duly authorized shall have received from the town a permit to do so, after having met the requirements herein specified to obtain such permit. The owner of any property desired to be connected with the sewer system of the town, or his or her duly authorized agent, shall first make an application in writing signed by such owner, or his or her agent, duly authorized in writing to sign such application for and in the name of the owner, upon blanks furnished by the town and delivered to the officer in charge of the Sewer Department of the town, for a permit to connect any such property with the town sewer system. Such application shall contain the precise location of the property to be drained; the type of structure and the purpose for which same is used; give the name of the owner of the property and the number and class of plumbing fixture to be contained within the private system or property to be drained; the name of the person or firm employed to do the plumbing work contemplated to be done and connected with the sewer system. Such application shall further contain an agreement on the part of such applicant owner of the property sought to be connected and drained by the sewer system of the town; that he or she will promptly pay to the town the rental charges then or thereafter to be prescribed by the town for the use of the sewer system at the times and in the manner prescribed now or hereafter by the ordinances of the town, that he or she will abide by and observe the rules and regulations governing the use of the town sewer system and that he or she will be responsible for the rental charges accruing up to the time that he or she gives actual notice, in writing, to the town of a change in ownership of the property, or to discontinue service thereto.
(B) Any such permit issued shall remain in force only so long as the owner of the property, and the applicant therefor, shall comply with the rules and regulations now or hereafter prescribed for the use of the sewer system, and shall pay the rental charges as provided, and upon the failure of such property owner in either or any respect to fully comply with the provisions hereof, said permit shall be subject to cancellation, and the town shall have the right to discontinue sewer service to such property. This stipulation shall also be contained in the application for a permit.
(C) Before any application for a permit shall be received and permit granted there must be paid to the town, inspection fees and one month rental for sewer service in advance, said advance payment to be applied in payment for the rental and service charge for the first month following commencement of service, if the permit is issued following the fifteenth day of any calendar month. If the permit is issued on or prior to such day charge for sewer service shall commence on the first day of the month in which the permit is issued.
(D) Whenever any property for which a permit has been issued and sewer service is being furnished changes ownership, the new owner shall make application for a continuation of sewer service to such property, and such application shall be made upon the same blanks and be subject to the same terms and conditions, and contain the same stipulations as an original application, and such application shall be marked application for continuation of sewer service.
(E) When any person owning any property served by the sewer system in the town shall change the plumbing in premises, other than single-family dwellings used exclusively as such, to be connected with the sewer system so as to increase the number of plumbing fixtures connected with the town sewer system, such person shall make a new application, upon the same blanks, terms and conditions as an original application as set out in this section.
(F) When sewer service for any property has been discontinued for any reason, same shall not again be continued until the owner of such property shall have made application as is set out in this section for original application.
(G) No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated in the application.
(H) A permit to make a connection with the sewer system or for a continuation of sewer service will be issued only when the plumbing in the structure or property to be connected and drained, is in accordance with the provisions for plumbing as are provided in the plumbing code for the town, now in effect and hereinafter adopted, and has been inspected and approved by the Town Plumbing Inspector.
(I) There shall be no reduction or abatement of sewer rental charge for any property so long as said property is connected with the sewer system of the town.
(Ord. 345, passed 3-21-2013)