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## BY-LAW #14 TOWN OF MULGRAVE
## BY-LAW RESPECTING THE USE OF SEWERS
## BY-LAW # 14
## BY-LAW RESPECTING THE USE OF SEWERS
- 1.) This By-Law shall be known as and may be cited as the "Sewer Use By-Law".
- 2.) No person shall injure, break, or remove any portion of the public sewer system or its appurtenances.
- 3.) No person shall permit any open gutter, cesspool, privy, vault, cellar, underground drain or exhaust pipe from any machine or engine to be connected with any public sewer.
- 4.) No person shall throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, in any sewer opening or receptacle connected with the sewer system, any unshredded garbage, offal, dead animal, bones, vegetable matter or thing except feces, urine, the necessary water closet paper and liquid house slops.
- 5.) No person shall throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, in any sewer opening or receptacle connected with the sewer system any animal, vegetable or mineral fat, oil, grease or lubricant whether the same is liquid, solid, or a mixture of both liquid and solid.
- 6.) Any person shall be permitted to dispose of properly shredded garbage or vegetable parings which are the waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce which garbage and vegetable parings must be shredded to such a degree that all particles shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in sewers with no particles greater than ½ inch in any dimension.
- ... a) If the Public Works Supervisor or the Public Works Committee (hereinafter called the "committee") considers it necessary, any person who is the owner of land which is used for industrial or commercial purposes and which is connected to a public sewer, shall be required to provide grease, oil and sand interceptors in order to provide for the proper handling of liquid waste containing grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable waste, sand or other harmful ingredients.
- b) All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Public
Works Supervisor or the Committee and in accordance with good engineering practice for sanitary sewer systems. Such interceptors shall be located so as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
- Grease and oil interceptors shall be constructed of impervious materials capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature and shall be of substantial construction, of a water type, equipped with easily removable covers which, when both in place, shall be gas tight and water tight.
- 8.) The Public Works Supervisor or the Committee shall have the power to stop and prevent from discharging into the sewer system any private sewer or drains to which substances are discharged directly to injure the sewers or obstruct the flow of the sewage or through which substances are discharged in contravention of this By-Law.
- 9.) No person shall permit any pipe carrying sewage to discharge into any open trench.
- 10) No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged or permit to be discharged any contents of any septic tanks or cesspit into any public sewer.
- 11.) Any person who violates any provision of this By-Law shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding $250.00; and, in default, to imprisonment of not more than one month.
- 12.) All Former sewer By-Laws of the Town of Mulgrave are hereby repealed and this By-Law substituted therefore.
Resolution:
Resolved by the Town Council of the Town of Mulgrave that the attached By-Law Respecting the Use of Sewers be and the same is hereby enacted and that the Clerk be and is hereby instructed to forward same to the Minister of Municipal Affairs with a request for his approval thereof.
1, Debbie King, Acting Clerk Treasurer of the Town of Mulgrave do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a By-Law Respecting the Use of Sewers duly passed unanimously by the full Council of the Town of Mulgrave at a meeting duly held and convened on the 30th day of October, 1985.
DATED at Mulgrave, in the County of Guysborough, Nova Scotia, this 23" day of December, A.D., 1985.
Debbie King Acting Clerk-Treasurer for the Town of Mulgrave