A By-law Respecting the Regulations of Sewer Connections No. 1994-02 — full text

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Page 1 of 3 TOWN OF DIGBY BY-LAW # 19-A RENUMBERED #1994-02 A BY-LAW RESPECTING THE REGULATIONS OF SEWER CONNECTIONS RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Digby that the following be enacted and that the Clerk forward appropriate copies to the Minister of Municipal Affairs with a request for approval thereof. SEWER CONNECTION BY-LAW 1. This By-law may be cited as the "Sewer Connection By-law". 2. In this By-law, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression: (a) "Town" means the Town of Digby or the area contained within its municipal boundaries as the context requires; (b) "Confined Sewer" means a sewer that is intended to conduct wastewater and storm water; (c) "council" means the Council of the Town of Digby; (d) "Engineer" means the Engineer for the Town of Digby and includes the Superintendent of Works; (e) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group; (f) "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer for the collection and transmission of domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater or any of then, and to which uncontaminated or cooling water, storm,, surface, and ground water are not intentionally admitted; (g) "Sewer" means a pipe, conduit, drain, open channel, or ditch used for the collection and transmission of wastewater, storm water, or uncontaminated process or cooling water; (h) "Sewerage System "means all pipes, mains, equipment, buildings and structures for collecting, pumping or treatment of wastewater and operated by the Town of Digby, but does not include a storm sewer; (i) "Storm Sewer" means a sewer and all related structures designed exclusively for the collection and transmission of uncontaminated water, storm water, drainage from land or from any watercourse or any of them. A BY-LAW RESPECTING THE REGULATIONS OF SEWER CONNECTIONS # 1994-02 Page 2 of 3 3. (a) No Person shall connect any private sewer or building sewer to a municipal sewer without first obtaining permission thereof from the Engineer. (b) No connection to a municipal sewer shall be made except under the supervision of the Engineer. (c) No connection shall be covered until it has been inspected and approved by the Engineer. 4. Every person connecting to a sewerage system shall construct the connection according to requirements of the Canadian Building and Plumbing Codes. 5. No person shall connect any storm sewer to any sanitary sewer. 6. (a) the owner of a building, the nearest part of which is not more than one hundred feet from any portion of a municipal sewer shall be required at the owners expense to construct a building sewer therefrom and connect same to the said municipal sewer; provided however; Council may exempt therefrom any such building that appears to it: (i) to be adequately served with existing storm drainage and on-site sewage disposal systems; (ii) would not be adequately served by connection to the municipal sewerage system. (b) The Council shall not require any owner to connect to a municipal sewer until service from said sewer has been available to the property for one year. 7. When a building has been connected to the municipal Sewerage system or the Council has ordered a building to be so connected, the Council may by resolution order the owners of outhouses and septic tanks to remove such outhouses and to destroy or fill such septic tanks. 8. Except as otherwise provided herein, any person who contravenes any section of this By- law is liable on conviction to a Penalty of not less than $100.00 and nor more than $1,000.00 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term of not more than three (3) months. 9. Alt costs associated with the installation, connection, maintenance or repair of a building sewer connection to the municipal sewerage system, whether in a street, highway or easement, including the costs of any necessary permits, are the sole responsibility of the owner. A BY-LAW RESPECTING THE REGULATIONS OF SEWER CONNECTIONS # 1994-02 Page 3 of 3