ARTICLE III - USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED
Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Town, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other waste constituting a hazard to health. Exceptions may be granted by the Selectmen to an owner or lessee acting in the normal course of farm or garden operations.
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge to any natural outlet in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town any sewage or other polluted water, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this Ordinance and/or any other applicable laws, rules or regulations.
Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or use any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage, if at the time such person is required by Section 4 of this Article III to connect toilet facilities in or on his property with a public sanitary sewer.
Sec. 4. Every building intended for human habitation, occupancy, employment, recreation or any other purpose situated within the Town, shall be provided with suitable and sufficient sanitary facilities for the use of the occupants thereof. Said facilities in character, number and method of installation shall comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations including, but not limited to ordinances of the Town, health laws of the State of Maine and rules and regulations of the State Bureau of Health so far as the same are compatible and not inconsistent. In the event any such laws, rules, and regulations are inconsistent, the stricter provision (s) shall apply.
Sec. 5. The owner of any house, building or other structures used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, which is situated within the Town and on land that has frontage abutting street, alley or right-of-way containing a public sanitary sewer of the Town, provided any part of the foundation thereof is within two hundred (200) feet of such public sanitary sewer, or is otherwise required by the State Plumbing Code for the State of Maine to do so, is hereby required at the property owner's own expense to connect the suitable sanitary facilities as described in Article III, Section 4 above, directly with such public sanitary sewer in accordance with this Ordinance within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so. The requirement set forth in this section shall be subject to the availability of sewer capacity as determined by the Director of Public Works, or Selectmen, as the case may be according to the terms of this Ordinance.
Sec. 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance, a determination by the Director of Public Works that a grinder pump would be necessary for the particular property owner to connect to the public sewer shall constitute an unnecessary hardship, and that property owner shall be relieved of any obligation to connect to the public sewer. This exemption shall NOT apply if:
- The grinder pump is supplied to the property owner by the Town; or
- The existing septic system for that property is malfunctioning, in which case connection to the public sewer shall be required notwithstanding the need and associated cost of installing a grinder pump or a solids handling pump, unless a variance is obtained under Article XVII.