The town council is authorized from time to time to prescribe rules and orders relative to the use of the sewer system, and by general ordinance to forbid the introduction or turning into the sewers of any substance injurious or detrimental thereto or to the public use thereof. Any person violating any ordinance, rule or order prescribed by the town council under the authority of this act [this article] shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each violation, and not exceeding fifty ($50.00) dollars for each additional day that any such violation shall continue, as may be prescribed by ordinance of the town council, and shall also be liable in an action on the case for all damages caused to the town or to any person by any such violation.
(P.L. 1958, ch. 138, § 1.)