(A) The owner of any building that generates sewage or wastewater situated in the town and abutting any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is or may in the future be located a public sewer of the town must, at the owner’s own expense, install suitable toilet facilities and connect those facilities directly to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, provided that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line. The town shall give the property owner notice by certified mail at least 90 days before the date specified for connection in the notice.
(B) Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of division (A) of this section, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with all recommendations of the Indiana State Department of Health and the Hendricks County Health Department.
(C) The owner shall operate and maintain private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the town.
(D) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system as provided in division (B) of this section and upon receipt of the official notice as provided in division (A) of this section, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter and any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and decommissioned within 90 days after the date specified for connection in the notice. The closure of such facilities shall be in accordance with town, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indiana Department of Health and Hendricks County Health Department regulations
(E) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the local health officer.
(F) The owner of every lot, parcel of real estate, or building connecting to a municipal sewer financed or paid for by the town shall, prior to being permitted to make the connection, pay a connection charge as provided in division(G) of this section. The charges set forth in division (G) of this chapter are reasonable and equitable pro-rations of the cost of construction of the treatment facilities and collection system that serve the property connecting to the sewer.
(G) Connection charges. The owner of any lot, parcel of real estate, or building connecting to the town’s sanitary sewage system shall, prior to being permitted to make the connection, pay a connection charge as defined in the town’s sewer rate ordinance (most current version).
(Ord. 06-2017, passed 5-22-2017)