(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person without having proper authority to touch, tamper or in any manner manipulate or turn the cut-offs on the water mains, water meters or fire hydrants forming a part of the water system of the town, nor shall any person without having proper authority tamper with or harm in any manner whatsoever any water or sewer line, water meter, sewer manhole, fire hydrant or any appurtenances thereto. No person shall throw or deposit any material or substance in any water or sewer line that will in any manner obstruct a line.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person without having proper authority to, in any manner interfere with or injure any filter, coagulating tank or clear water basin, or any standpipe or any other materials, device or attachment used in connection therewith; or to climb upon the top of any standpipe, coagulating tank, clear water basin; or throw in or against standpipe, filter, coagulating tank or clear water basin, rocks, sticks or other material of any kind whatsoever.
(3) Neither the exhaust, blowoff, drip line or sediment from any boiler, nor the discharge of large volumes of hot water from any source, shall be discharged into the town sewer system; pipes may first discharge into a basin, properly trapped and vented, which, after being relieved of sediment, pressure or high temperature, may discharge into a town sewer. Water over 120°F shall not be admitted to the sewer.
(B) The governing authority shall have a right to prevent any discharge into system and notify the user to halt any discharge which would contaminate or be likely to contaminate the Publicly Owned Treatment Works or POTW and prevent its continued discharge into the system; the governing authority in charge of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works or POTW shall have the right to impose civil or criminal penalties for non-compliance against the user of the system, and assess against any offending party a penalty of at least $1,000 per violation per day against industrial users that violate pre-treatment standards and requirements. Each successive day of violation shall be considered a separate offense. In addition the governing body in charge of the POTW shall have a further right to bring an action in the proper jurisdiction of the courts, state or federal, for injunctive relief against the offending party or parties.
(Prior Code, § 16-1) (Am. Ord. passed 4-3-1989) Penalty, see § 10.99