(A) The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the town.
(B) The type, capacities, location, and layout of a private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the state’s Board of Health. No permit shall be issued for any private facilities where the area of the lot is less than 18,000 square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any natural outlet.
(C) The owner shall be responsible for maintaining the flow and upkeep of sewer laterals to prevent any blockage that could create a bypass or spillover of sewage. Said maintenance shall include, but not be limited to, cleaning of lateral pipes and repair of damaged laterals from broken or missing pipe. If excavation of any town street is required to repair or maintain a sewer lateral, the owner shall be responsible to repair the affected portions of the street to comply with the minimum requirements of the town.
(D) Upon the reasonable discovery of a damaged lateral sewer requiring repair, the owner shall complete all necessary repairs within 15 days of the discovery of the damage. If the owner refuses or fails to repair the damaged sewer lateral within the required time period, the town shall have the right to hire, at the owner’s expense, a sewer cleaning company or qualified contractor to repair the sewage lateral.
(Prior Code, § 52.43) (Ord. 14-70, passed 1-18-1971; Ord. 06-07-01, passed 8-22-2006) Penalty, see § 52.999