The purposes of this Part 3 are as follows:
A. To control discharges into the Village of Johnson
City public sewer system or tributaries thereto, including the Binghamton-Johnson
City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant.
B. To prohibit the discharge of:
(1) Excessive volumes and/or inordinate rates of flow
into the Village of Johnson City public sewer system.
(2) Sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes which may
in any way:
(a)
Create a poisonous, hazardous, explosive, flammable
or toxic condition in the village public sewer system or otherwise
impair the strength and/or durability of the system or the structures
appurtenant to the system (including the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint
Sewage Treatment Plant);
(b)
Interfere with the normal treatment processes,
including proper disposal of sludge;
(c)
Pass through the joint sewage treatment plant
into the receiving waters inadequately treated; or
(d)
Contain substances in such concentrations as
may exceed established discharge limits.
C. To prohibit and/or regulate the discharge of sewage,
industrial wastes or other wastes which require greater expenditures
for treatment than those required for equal volumes of normal sewage;
to surcharge users for permitted contributions requiring treatment
costs greater than normal sewage charges.
D. To provide the authority for the Binghamton-Johnson
City Joint Sewage Board to exercise regulatory control over users
discharging industrial wastes into the village public sewer system.
E. To provide cooperation with the Broome County Department
of Health, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,
New York State Department of Health, United States Environmental Protection
Agency and any other agencies which have requirements or jurisdiction
for the protection of the physical, chemical and biological quality
of watercourses within or bounding the village.
F. To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.
G. To enforce promulgated final standards and/or procedures
set by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Nothing contained in this Part 3 shall be construed
to interfere with or modify any requirements of design, inspection
and approval which are imposed by the New York State Department of
Health or the Broome County Health Department.
Nothing contained in this Part 3 shall be deemed
to relieve any person of the duty and responsibility of complying
with the village plumbing code.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Director
of Services shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions
of this Part 3.
Except as otherwise provided herein, all fees
and charges payable under the provisions of this Part 3 shall be paid
to the village in accordance with the Village Sewer Rent Law. Such fees and charges are due and payable upon the receipt
of notice of charges. Unpaid charges shall become delinquent and shall
be subject to penalty and interest charges and collection as provided
for in the Village Sewer Rent Law.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the village
public sewer system. No person shall tamper with or knowingly render
inaccurate any measuring device or mechanism installed pursuant to
any requirement under this Part 3. Any person violating this provision
shall be be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.)
nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.) or imprisonment not exceeding
one hundred and fifty days, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
No person shall knowingly make any false statement
in any application, report or other document required to be filed
pursuant to any provision of this Part 3.