(A) Any user who discharges any industrial wastes, including without limitation fats, oils, greases and solids into a public sewer shall install or cause to be installed in the user's system a grease interceptor or grease trap of a size and design approved by the town. If the Board of Commissioners makes no other designation of a person to provide such approvals, then the Public Utility Superintendent or his designee shall be that person. By way of illustration, but not limitation, such users include restaurants and other food service vendors, food processing establishments, grocery stores, hospitals, school and business cafeterias, daycare providers who provide on-premise food service, convalescent homes, car washes and establishments where diesel or gasoline engine repairs are conducted. Provided, however, neither grease interceptors nor grease traps shall be required for private living quarters or dwelling units not associated with an entity that discharges industrial wastes as provided herein.
(B) No industrial waste may be discharged into the public sewer system until it has been passed through a properly installed and properly operating grease interceptor or grease trap installed as provided herein.
(C) Any grease interceptor or grease trap required as provided herein shall be installed and connected so that it is easily accessible for inspection, cleaning and removal of intercepted waste; provided, however, that toilets, urinals, wash basins and other fixtures containing or likely to contain fecal materials shall not flow through a grease interceptor or grease trap.
(D) All grease interceptors and grease traps shall be maintained in efficient operating condition by periodic removal of the accumulated waste. Outdoor grease interceptors shall be cleaned and serviced and the accumulated waste removed as frequently as needed in order to maintain the efficient operation of the grease interceptor, but in any event at least every 60 days. Indoor grease interceptors or grease traps shall be cleaned and serviced and the accumulated waste removed as frequently as needed in order to maintain the efficient operation of the grease interceptor or grease trap, but in any event at least every 30 days. If the user of any grease interceptor or grease trap, whether indoors or outdoors, can demonstrate that such a maintenance schedule imposes an unreasonable burden on such user, and that less frequent cleaning and servicing than that required by this subsection is sufficient to ensure the continued efficient operation of the grease interceptor or grease trap, then such user may apply to the town for an exemption from the cleaning and servicing requirements of this subsection. If such an exemption is allowed, then the user shall be given an exemption certificate which shall be signed by the Public Utility Superintendent or such other person as he designates, dated, shall state the schedule which the user shall use in lieu of the schedule set out herein, shall be maintained by the user, and shall be valid for one year from the date of issuance or until the user's usage of the grease interceptor or grease trap changes such that the approved alternate schedule no longer ensures the efficient operation of the system.
(E) No waste removed from a grease interceptor or grease trap as required herein may be reintroduced into the town's sewer system under any circumstances.
(F) No user may cause or permit the introduction into a grease interceptor or grease trap of hot water, solvents or any other agents designed or intended to dissolve grease.
(G) Any user of a system in which a grease interceptor or grease trap is required as provided herein shall maintain a maintenance log. In the case of grease interceptors and grease traps cleaned, pumped or serviced by a licensed third party pumper, the user shall obtain from the pumper and maintain in the place of business an invoice, manifest or similar document identifying the third party pumper which shall be signed and dated by a representative of the third party pumper. In the case of grease interceptors and grease traps cleaned, pumped or serviced by the user, the log shall consist of a bound paper logbook or similarly secure document with an entry dated and signed by the representative of the user who did or oversaw the cleaning, pumping or servicing. In either case, the record of service shall be maintained for not less than three years.
(H) A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject the user to a civil penalty of $50 per day for the first violation and $200 per day for any subsequent violation within three years after any other violation.
(I) Nothing herein shall or may be interpreted as excusing any user from complying with any other ordinance, regulation or statute concerning what substances may be introduced into the town's sewer system.
(J) This section shall be effective as of the date of its passage as to all users and future users who were not open for business on the date of passage, or who (a) were not closed due to the season of the year, and (b) were open for business during the portion of the year 2000 that corresponds to the user's usual open season. As to users who were open for business on the date of passage, or who were closed due to the season of the year and who had been open during the portion of the year 2000 that corresponds to the user's usual open season, such users shall bring themselves into compliance herewith within six months of notification of passage of this section.
(K) The notification required in the preceding subsection may be given in any manner reasonably calculated to come to the attention of the user, but the mailing of a copy of this section to the user, certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the address at which the user receives its water and sewer bill from the town shall provide conclusive evidence that the user received notification of the passage of this section upon the return to the town of the return receipt showing delivery of said notification. The user's six-month period within which to effect compliance herewith shall begin on the delivery date recorded by the United States Postal Service on said return receipt. In any event, the agent or employee giving notification shall certify in writing the manner in which he or she gave such notification.
(Ord. passed 1-23-01)