(A) The provisions of this regulation shall apply to all users of the municipal sanitary sewerage system irregardless of location within or outside of the town limits.
(B) (1) The Manager shall endeavor to assure compliance with the requirements of these regulations by conference and persuasion.
(2) If the efforts, over a reasonable period of time, are futile the Manager shall take formal actions provided hereafter.
(C) In any case involving a person who is discharging waste into the sanitary sewerage system and where the Manager finds that the person has failed to comply with any of these regulations, the procedure for enforcement shall be as follows:
(1) The Manager shall give notice to the person by registered mail stating the specifics of the failure of compliance and requiring that the person remedy the failure within 72 hours.
(2) The Manager may thereupon, without further notice, cause the water service from the public water system to be discontinued for the person or cause the connection to the sanitary sewer system to be severed for the person.
(3) In any case where water service is discontinued or the sewer connection is severed by the town for enforcement purposes, the restoration of the service shall be conditioned on full compliance by the person and payment of any expense incurred in the enforcement proceeding and in the restoration of service.
(4) The town may, in its discretion, continue or restore water or sewer service in a case of failure of compliance on condition that the person furnish a bond or other security, with terms as specified by the town, to hold harmless the town from any loss or expense that it may incur as a result of the noncompliance or any further noncompliance.
(D) (1) In any case involving a person who fails to comply with any of these regulations but who is not discharging waste into the sanitary sewerage system, the Manager shall give notice to the person by registered mail stating the specifics of the failure of compliance and requiring that the person promptly remedy the failure.
(2) At the same time, the Manager shall report the facts of the case in writing to the Town Board and to the other government agency as may have jurisdiction and power to take appropriate enforcement action.
(E) In any case involving the use of the town sewerage system, the town shall have the right to collect the costs of treatment for the wastewater discharged by the user to the town sewerage system.
(F) The town reserves the right to discontinue its service without notice for the following reasons:
(1) To prevent fraud or abuse;
(2) User's failure to pay user's bills as provided for in this regulation;
(3) Emergency repairs;
(4) Legal processes;
(5) Direction of higher public authorities; and/or
(6) Strike, riot, fire, flood, accident or any unavoidable cause.
(Ord. passed 5-13-2002)