(A) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, including industrial or commercial businesses, situated within the town and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the town, is hereby required, at his, her or their expense, to install toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so; provided that, said public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line and the property owner does not meet the requirements for the exemption from connection as set forth in I.C. 13-26-5-2.5. It shall be the responsibility of the property owners to bring the private sewer line to the grinder pump unit, and it shall be the property owner’s responsibility to pay for the connection to the grinder pump unit. Failure to connect within 90 days shall be a violation and subject to § 51.99 of this chapter.
(B) With respect to the disposition of existing septic tanks and rain fields after a property owner shall have connected to the public sewer, the property owner shall empty the septic tank of its contents, fill with granular material and disconnect said tank from the house and discontinue usage of the private system in accordance with County and State Health Department regulations.
(C) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a permit from the town. To do otherwise is a violation.
(D) No permit shall be furnished until the application has been completed to the satisfaction of the town.
(E) No city, town, county, regional district, public institution, firm, corporation or officer or employee thereof, or other person, shall install or contract for the construction of any sewers, sewage treatment works, or other sewage facilities, designed to collect, convey, treat or otherwise dispose of any water-carried or liquid waste either of domestic or industrial origin, or make any material change in any such existing sewage facilities or sewage treatment of disposal works, until plans and specifications, together with an engineering report supporting in detail the design set forth in such plans, shall have been submitted to and have been approved by the County Board of Health, and the town, so far as it relates to their sanitary features.
(F) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the County and State Health Officer.
(G) The town shall deny any permit if the information on the application is incomplete, inaccurate or indicates that the provisions of this ordinance cannot be met.
(H) No person without authorization shall enter or maliciously, willfully or negligently break damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the town sewage works.
(I) The grinder pumps and other portions of the public sewer provided by the town to, or for the use of, each property shall be used by the owner of the property in accordance with the rules and regulations of the town. If damage is caused to the pump by reason of the use of the pump in a manner contrary to the rules and regulations issued by the town, the owner shall be charged the cost of repair, replacement and/or damage to the pump and shall be liable to the town for the repayment of such costs.
(J) Prior to the construction of any portion of a public sewer on private property to which a service connection will, can or may be made, the town may request that the owner of record of the premises to be connected execute an easement in a form provided by the town granting the town permission to install inspect, operate, maintain, repair and replace that portion of the connection is designed to be made. See § 51.24 of this chapter for accessibility.
(K) The town will not be responsible for interruptions of services due to disruption of electrical service, natural calamities, equipment failures or actions of the system users. It shall be the responsibility of the user that all connected user equipment remain in good working order so as not to cause disruption of service to any sewer collection system equipment.
(L) Warsaw sewer ordinances shall be applicable only if they are more restrictive than this chapter.
(1982 Code, Title VI, Ch. 2, § II) (Ord. passed 5-12-2008) Penalty, see § 51.99