(A) Accessibility and mandatory taps within town limits. Within 30 days after the completion of construction of any sewer main within the corporate limits of the town, the owner of every property which lies within 150 feet of that line, whereon improvements for human occupancy shall cause a water closet, sink, septic tank, effluent pump station and appurtenances and a discharge line to the property limits to be constructed in accordance with town regulations, shall cause the property to be connected to the sewer through town action. It shall be the responsibility of the owner to receive authorization to connect and to make connection to the sewer main at the owner’s expense, unless specifically authorized by the Director of Public Works that the town will incur the cost. Otherwise, the connection shall be constructed and made at the sole expense of the property owner.
(B) Service to users outside of the corporate limits. Those property owners who, being outside the corporate limits of the town, wish to tap on and connect to municipal sewer service, are allowed to do so providing the following conditions are met:
(1) The property owner must connect and subscribe to all municipal services accessible to the property (e.g., water and sewer service). Services are considered accessible to properties outside the corporate limits if they pass within 350 feet of the property in question. These connections shall be made at the sole expense of the property owner;
(2) The property owners, wishing to connect to municipal services which are not considered accessible, shall bear the total cost of all extensions and resulting connections to the municipal services; and
(3) The property owner shall, upon approval by the town, annex into the town’s corporate limits or execute an agreement with the town that, at such time as his or her property is eligible for annexation (i.e., contiguous to town or within the acreage limits of the town’s satellite annexation cap), and the town is able to execute the annexation, the property owner will present a petition to the town for annexation of the property.
(C) Connections to be separate. Every house or building accessible to any sewer main shall be separately and independently connected, except in those cases where laterals from the main have already been laid in macadam or improved streets, without provisions having been made for the house or building, when the connection may be made to an existing lateral. If the house or building is on a macadam or improved street where laterals have not been laid, the connection may be made to any convenient lateral. When two or more houses or units are connected with the same water lateral, a separate water meter shall be provided for each house or unit.
(D) Multi-family rental dwellings. Connections to multi-family rental dwellings shall be required to be supplied through a master meter per building and billed and charged for installation and billing purposes to a viable management company or firm and/or the owner of the project. Connections to multi-family dwellings that are intended to be individually owned shall be separately metered and billed to the individual owners. Commercial dwellings shall be separately metered for each separate business operation or premises. If a commercial dwelling is expanded or divided or occupied separately after its original construction date in a manner that would have required separate metering, the uses shall pay a separate utility bill for each separate commercial use. Upon the approval of the Director of Public Works, with the concurrence of the Town Administrator, a legitimate commercial office suite, where restrooms and staff are to be shared by separate commercial enterprises, may be metered as a single business.
(E) Service in environmentally sensitive areas. Unless approved by the town, sewer service shall not be permitted to any dwelling or commercial unit which is located in environmentally sensitive areas, such as flood plains and wetlands.
(1994 Code, § 52.50) (Ord. passed 2-3-1982; Ord. passed 1-6-1998; Ord. 07-38, passed 11-6-2007)