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 boundaries of the sewer district or
in any area under the jurisdiction of the sewer district any human
or animal excrement, garbage or objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet within the boundaries of the sewer district any wastewater
or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been
provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank,
cesspool, leach field or other facility intended or used for the disposal
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The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes
situated within the sewer district and abutting on any street, alley
or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future
be located a public sanitary sewer of the sewer district is hereby
required at the expense of the owner(s) to install suitable toilet
facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the
proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
within nine months after the date of official notice to do so, unless
mandated at an earlier date by the Rensselaer County Department of
Health. All buildings shall be connected to the public sewer if such
sewer is within 100 feet (30.5) of the property line, unless there
are substantial physical obstructions, in which case the owner may
appeal to the Rensselaer County Department of Health and the Town
Board.
