Unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context,
the following words shall have the following meanings:
A formal submission of documents and supporting plans and
other materials submitted to the Department in accordance with its
most recent rules and regulations.
Any building or structure engaged in service, trade, business,
traffic or commerce in general, exclusive of industrial development.
The Ocean Township Water and Sewer Utility Department.
The person, persons, company or corporation performing site
improvements.
A sewer which is constructed to carry sewage or wastewater,
but not intended to be placed in service until downstream sanitary
sewer facilities are completed as some later date.
Any building or structure engaged in manufacturing or processing
operations.
The property upon whose behalf the site improvements are
to be made.
The Planning Board of the Township of Ocean. However, this
term shall also include the Zoning Board of Adjustment if applicable.
A formal submission of documents and supporting plans and
other materials submitted to the Department for a decision on whether
a connection to the sanitary sewer shall be required, dry lines installed
or a waiver recommended.
A sewer which carries sewage or wastewater.
The existing sanitary sewers and future sanitary sewer extensions,
to sewer the Township of Ocean, as determined by the Department or
as the Department shall determine.
All interceptors, trunks, sanitary sewers, service connections
and pumping stations owned by the Department in public streets or
easements.
The Township of Ocean.
Developers of all residential subdivisions and all commercial
and industrial development shall submit to the Department for a preapplication
determination. The Department shall determine if the developer shall
be required to connect to the sanitary sewer, which may include extending
the sewer system or the installation of dry sanitary sewers and on-site
septic systems, or the Department may recommend a waiver for such
connections or dry sanitary sewer at this time. If the Department
determines that a connection to the sewer system shall be required
or dry sanitary sewers installed, the developer shall file with the
Department such preliminary and final applications in accordance with
the Departments' rules and regulations and construct the required
sanitary sewer facilities. If the Department recommends that the connection
to the sewer system or installation of dry sanitary sewers may be
waived, the Township Committee shall adopt a resolution showing the
reasons for recommending the waiver and shall forward a certified
copy of the resolution to the developer and the Planning Board.
All Planning Board approvals shall be conditioned on approvals
by the Water and Sewer Utility Department. The Planning Board shall
not be bound by a recommendation of the Department to waive requiring
the developer to connect to the sewer system or to install dry sanitary
sewers. The Planning Board may accept or reject said recommendation
based upon the facts presented to it.
Continuation of the site improvements may resume at such time
when the Planning Board adopts a resolution waiving the connection
requirements or upon approval by the Department of a final application
and the owner or developer securing all county and state permits necessary
in order to make connection to the sanitary sewer system or construction
of dry sanitary sewers.
[Amended 3-4-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-5]
No certificate of occupancy shall be issued to the owner until
the owners who are determined to connect to the sanitary sewer or
construct dry sanitary sewers complete said sanitary sewer facilities
in accordance with the Department's rules and regulations and until
the Department fully accepts the sanitary sewer facilities in accordance
with procedures defined in said rules and regulations.
[Amended 12-12-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-12]
No building permit shall be issued by the Township until such
time as the developer has received all necessary approvals or waivers
from the Township's Utility Department and Planning Board. In addition,
no building permit shall be issued unless and until the developer
has paid all utility connection fees for sewer and/or water for the
entire project in full.
A.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than $1,000, by imprisonment for a term not to exceed
90 days or by community service of not more than 90 days, or any combination
of fine, imprisonment and community service as determined in the discretion
of the municipal court judge. The continuation of such violation for
each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person
or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation
may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
B.
The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be subject to
abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction issued by
a court of competent jurisdiction.
In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, if the owner
of property in the Township of Ocean shall fail or refuse to make
any connections or installation required by the chapter within the
time or times herein provided, the Ocean Township Water and Sewer
Utility Department may proceed to make such connection or installation
or cause the same to be made and assess the cost or charges against
such property in accordance with the delinquency provisions of the
rules and regulations of the Ocean Township Water and Sewer Utility
Department.
