[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Tigerton 4-5-1988 as Title 6, Ch. 2, of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Cleanup required. All persons, firms or corporations delivering,
hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise handling hazardous
materials or potentially polluting substances, solid or liquid, such
as, but not limited to, the following shall immediately clean up any
such spilled material to prevent it becoming a hazard to health or
safety or directly or indirectly causing the pollution of the lakes
and streams under the jurisdiction of the Village: fuel oil, gasoline,
solvents, industrial liquids or fluids, milk, grease trap and septic
tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary sewer wastes, storm sewer catch-basin
wastes, oil or petroleum wastes.
B.
Notification. Spills or accidental release of hazardous materials
or potentially polluting substances at a site or of a quantity or
nature that cannot adequately be cleaned up by the responsible party
or parties shall be immediately reported to the Police Department
so that assistance can be given by the proper agency.
C.
Financial liability. The party or parties responsible for the release,
escape or discharge of hazardous materials or potentially polluting
substances may be held financially liable for the cost of any cleanup
or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable and undertaken
by the Village or its designated agent in an effort to minimize the
pollutional effects of the hazardous materials or potentially polluting
substances.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
store any potentially polluting substances unless such substances
are stored in such manner as to securely prevent them from escaping
onto the ground surface and/or into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway,
lake or stream within the jurisdiction of the Village.
