A. 
If there shall be any payments which are due to the district, pursuant to any article or section of this chapter, interest shall accrue on the unpaid balance, at the rate of 1% per month, retroactive to the date of the effective date of payment as specified on the district's notice to the owner.
B. 
In the event that there are any sewer rents, assessments, penalties, permit fees, surcharges, capital contributions or other charges which are delinquent as of October 30 of any year, the district accountant shall report the names of the defaulting persons to the Executive Director. These unpaid charges shall be re-levied against the property owner as a lien against the property and collected as sewer rent during the following year. The towns' assessors shall add the entire amount of the sewer rent, assessments and other charges which are in default, plus a 5% penalty for failure to pay by October 30 of that year, plus accumulated interest to the sewer rent due and owing to the district in the next succeeding year. The towns shall collect that amount in the same manner that sewer rent due and owing to the district is collected.
C. 
Where charges are delinquent and the violator is not a resident of the district, or is located outside the geographical boundaries of the district, then the district's attorney is authorized to seek recovery of charges, including punitive damages, in a court of competent jurisdiction or make arrangements with the appropriate Town where the user is located to add the amount of the sewer assessment or other charges which shall be in default, plus penalty and interest, as provided for in the law, to the real property taxes due to the Town in the next ensuing year.
D. 
Nothing in this article shall prohibit the Board of Commissioners or the County of Rockland from bringing any action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover any penalty imposed under this chapter.
The Executive Director may decline to reissue a permit to any user which has failed to comply with the provisions of this chapter, any order or previous permit issued hereunder or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, unless such user first files with it a satisfactory bond, payable to the district, in a sum not to exceed a value determined by the Executive Director to be necessary to achieve consistent compliance.
The Executive Director may decline to reissue a permit to any user which has failed to comply with the provisions of this chapter or any order or previous permit issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, unless the user first submits proof that it has obtained financial assurances sufficient to restore or repair POTW damage caused by its discharge.
The Executive Director is authorized to pay up to $500 for information leading to the discovery of noncompliance by a user. In the event that the information provided results in an administrative fine or civil penalty levied against the user, the Executive Director is authorized to disperse up to 10% of the collected fine or penalty to the informant. However, a single reward payment may not exceed $10,000, including the discovery reward.
The Executive Director shall publish annually, in the largest daily newspaper published in the municipality where the POTW is located, a list of the users which, during the previous 12 months, were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements. For this purpose, the term "significant noncompliance" shall mean:
A. 
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66% or more of wastewater measurements taken during a six-month period exceed the daily maximum limit or average limit for the same pollutant parameter by any amount;
B. 
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33% or more of wastewater measurements taken for each pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals or exceeds the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable criteria;
C. 
Any other discharge violation that the Executive Director believes has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through, including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public;
D. 
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment to the public or to the environment, or has resulted in the Executive Director's exercise of his emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
E. 
Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
F. 
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, any required reports, including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
G. 
Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
H. 
Any other violation(s) which the Executive Director determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
A. 
Users which have not achieved consistent compliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements are not eligible to receive a contractual award for the sale of goods or services to the district.
B. 
Existing contracts for the sale of goods or services to the district held by a user found to be in significant violation with pretreatment standards may be terminated at the discretion of the District Board.
A user shall have an affirmative defense to an enforcement action brought against it for noncompliance with the general prohibitions in § 345-73A of this chapter or the specific prohibitions in § 345-73B(3) through (23) of this chapter if it can prove that it did not know, or have reason to know, that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, would cause pass through or interference and that either:
A. 
A local limit exists for each pollutant discharged and the user was in compliance with each limit directly prior to, and during, the pass through or interference; or
B. 
No local limit exists, but the discharge did not change substantially in nature or constituents from the user's prior discharge when the district was regularly in compliance with its NPDES permit and, in the case of interference, was in compliance with applicable sludge use or disposal requirements.
The Board of Commissioners shall report industrial waste discharges consistently failing to achieve County, state or federal pollution standards to appropriate local, state or federal agencies. The Executive Director shall assist appropriate local, state or federal agencies as necessary in their review or action upon such report.
A. 
Proceedings under this chapter do not preclude enforcement of any ordinances, criminal statutes or laws of the State of New York by either the County of Rockland or the State of New York.
B. 
An action or proceeding may be brought by the Board of Commissioners and/or the County of Rockland in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with or restrain by injunction any violation of this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter for penalty or other punishment.