[Adopted 9-11-2002]
The owner of any house, building, or property used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within
any area under the jurisdiction of the Carroll County Public Service
Authority and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which
there is hereafter constructed or acquired a publicly owned waterline
or sanitary sewer, is hereafter required, at his expense, to install
suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public waterline or sanitary sewer in accordance
with the provisions of this article, within 90 days after the date
of official notice to do so, and thereafter shall cease to use any
other polluting waters, provided that the public waterline is within
a distance of not more than 200 feet from the house, building, or
property to be served and that the sanitary sewer is within a distance
of not more than 150 feet from the house, building, or property to
be served.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, those persons
having a private water, septic, or domestic sewage system meeting
applicable standards by the State Department of Health shall not be
required under this article to discontinue the use of such system.
However, such persons may be required to pay a monthly nonuser service
charge, which charge shall not be more than that proportion of the
minimum monthly user charge, imposed by the Carroll County Board of
Supervisors or the Carroll County Public Service Authority, as debt
service bears of the total operating and debt service costs. All fees
charged will be in accordance with the rules and regulations as adopted
from time to time by the Carroll County Board of Supervisors or the
Carroll County Public Service Authority.
Those persons having a private water, septic, or domestic sewage system that are subject to the nonuser service charge shall not expand or replace such private system once that system ceases to function or ceases to serve its purpose. At such time, the owner of such private water, septic, or domestic sewage system shall be required to connect to the publicly owned water or sanitary sewer line, provided that such house, building, or property is within the proximity set out in § 190-11. For the purpose of this section, "ceasing to function" and "ceasing to serve its purpose" shall mean that the private system is no longer in operation or no longer meets the applicable standards set by the State Department of Health and that complete replacement, addition, or expansion is required to repair the system to function properly or to meet the applicable State Department of Health standards.
The requirements hereby imposed shall not be applicable to existing
water or sanitary sewer systems already in service, except as such
authority has been specifically granted, but shall be applicable to
all water and sewer systems hereafter constructed, acquired or placed
in service by the Carroll County Public Service Authority.
Collection of applicable fees and charges under this article
will follow existing rules and procedures of the Carroll County Board
of Supervisors or the Carroll County Public Service Authority.
