(A) Right of entry. The Village Superintendent, and other duly authorized employees of the village bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with provisions of this subchapter.
(B) Agreements. No provisions of this subchapter shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the village and any industrial concern whereby industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the said village for treatment, subject to the payment by the industrial concern of the estimated cost of such treatment.
(C) Protection from damage. No person shall maliciously, wilfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is a part of the municipal sewage system or treatment plant.
(D) Unlawful discharge of sewage.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner, occupant, or person in control of any building situated outside the limits of the village to discharge or to permit or cause the discharge of sewage into any public or private sewer located outside the village which the sewer connects with and flows into the village sewage system without having first obtained a permit therefor from the village. Application for such permit shall be made upon forms provided by the village and shall be accompanied by a sketch or drawing indicating the location of such connections, the size of the conduit used, and such other data as the village may require.
(2) The fee for such permit shall be as established from time to time by resolution of the Village Council in direct physical connection with sewage system. The owner, occupant, or person in control of any premises outside the village shall be considered as connected with village sewage system when any building or structure thereon has a physical connection with a public or private sewer by way of pipe, tile, tube, or other conduit, whether or not such sewage passes through a septic tank, cesspool or other similar device, when such sewer in turn conveys the sewage or effluent into the village sewage system.
(E) Evidence of discharge of sewage. The ownership, occupancy, or control of any building or structure thus having a physical connection with a public or private sewer, which connects with and flows into the village sewage system, shall be prima facie evidence of the discharge of, or of the permitting or causing the discharge of sewage into the village sewage system.
(F) Duties of Village Superintendent. It shall be the duty of the Village Superintendent by lawful means to determine what persons owning, occupying, or controlling premises outside the village are discharging, or permitting or causing the discharge of sewage into the village sewage system. He or she shall maintain records thereof, which records shall be kept as current as possible.
(G) Applicability of subchapter. The provisions of this subchapter shall be applicable to nonresidents discharging, or causing or permitting the discharge of sewage into the village sewage system.
(H) Preservation of rights. The adoption of this subchapter shall be without prejudice to collection by the village of any indebtedness for sewage service heretofore rendered.
(I) New connections. The village reserves unto itself the right to prohibit any new connections from inflow sources, and each new sewer or connection to the sanitary sewer system shall be properly designed and constructed in accordance with applicable design and construction rules and regulations.
(2005 Code, § 171.007) (Ord. passed 8-18-1975) Penalty, see § 50.99