The town may:
(1) Construct, operate and maintain a water system and water plant.
(2) Construct, operate, and maintain a sanitary sewerage system and a
sewage treatment plant.
(3) Construct, operate, and maintain a storm water drainage system and
storm water sewers.
(4) Construct, maintain, reconstruct, enlarge, alter, repair, improve,
or dispose of all parts, installations, and structures of the above
plants and systems.
(5) Have surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates made for any of
the above plants and systems or parts thereof or the extension thereof.
(6) Do all things it deems necessary for the efficient operations and
maintenance of the above plants and systems.
Any public service corporation, company, or individual, before
beginning any construction of or placing of or changing the location
of any main, conduit, pipe, or other structure in the public ways
of the town, shall submit plans to the town and obtain written approval
upon such conditions and subject to such limitations as may be imposed
by the town. Any public service corporation, company, or individual
violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000. If any unauthorized main,
conduit, pipe, or other structure interferes either the operation
of the water, sewerage, or storm water systems, the town may order
it removed.
All individuals, firms or corporations, company having mains,
pipes, conduits, or other structures, in, on, or over any public way
in the town or in the county which impede the establishment, construction,
or operation of any town sewer or water main, upon reasonable notice,
shall remove or adjust the obstructions at their own expense to the
satisfaction of the town. If necessary to carry out the provisions
of this section, the town may use its condemnation powers.
The town may enter upon or do construction in, on or over any
county public way for the purpose of installing or repairing any equipment
or doing any other things necessary to establish, operate, and maintain
the water system, water plant, sanitary sewerage system, sewage treatment
plant, or storm water sewers provided for in this charter. Unless
required by the county, the town need not obtain any permit or pay
any charge for these operations, but it must notify the county of
its intent to enter on the public way and must leave the public way
in a condition not inferior to that existing before.
The town shall provide a connection with water and sanitary
sewer mains for all property abutting on any public way in which a
sanitary sewer or water main is laid. When any water main or sanitary
sewer is declared ready for operation by the town, all abutting property
owners after reasonable notices shall connect all fixtures with the
water or sewer main. The town may require that, if it considers existing
fixtures unsatisfactory, satisfactory ones be installed at owner's
expense and may require that all cesspools, sinkdrains, and privies
be abandoned at owner's expense, filled removed or left in such
a way as not to injure public health. All wells found to be polluted
or a menace to health may be ordered to be abandoned or closed at
owner's expense. Any violation of an ordinance passed under the
provisions of this section shall be made a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine not exceeding $1,0000.
The town may make a charge, the amount to be determined by the
council, for each connection made to the town's water or sewer
mains. This charge shall be uniform throughout the town, but may be
changed from year to year. Arrangements for the payment of this charge
shall be made before the connection is made.
In order to prevent any leakage or waste of water or other improper
use of the town's water system or sewage disposal system, the
town may require such changes in plumbing, fixtures, or connections
as it deems necessary to prevent such waste or improper use.
The town by ordinance may provide that no water supply, sewerage,
or storm water drainage system, and no water mains, sewers, drains,
or connection therewith, shall be constructed or operated by any person
or persons, firm, corporation, institution, or community, whether
upon private premises or otherwise, and may provide that cesspools
or other private methods of sewage disposal shall be operated and
maintained in such a manner that they do not and will not be likely
to affect adversely the public comfort and health and any cesspool
or other private method of sewage disposal affecting or likely to
affect adversely the public comfort and health may be deemed a nuisance
and may be abated by the town. Any violation of an ordinance passed
under the provisions of this section shall be made a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine not exceeding $1,000.
The town may extend its water or sewerage systems beyond the
town limits.
Any employee or agent of the town, while in the necessary pursuit
of his/her official duties with regard to the water or sewage disposal
systems operated by the town, has a right of entry, for access to
water or sewer installations, at all reasonable hours, and after reasonable
advance notice to the owner, tenant or person in possession, upon
any premises and into any building in the town or in the county served
by the town's water or sewage disposal system. Any restraint
or hindrance offered to the entry by any owner, tenant, or person
in possession, or the agent of any of them, by ordinance, may be made
a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000.
No person shall do anything which will discolor, pollute, or
tend to pollute any water used or to be used in the town water supply
system.
The town, if it deems it advisable, may contract with any party
or parties, inside or outside the town, to obtain water or to provide
for the removal of sewage.
The town may charge and collect such service rates, water rents,
ready-to-serve charges, or other charges as it deems necessary for
water supplied and for the removal of sewage. These charges are to
be billed and collected by the clerk-treasurer, and if bills are unpaid
within thirty days, the service may be discontinued. All charges shall
be a lien on the property, collectible in the same manner as town
taxes or by suit at law.
The provisions of this subheading shall not extend to any town
located in a sanitary district or special tax area or district authorized
to discharge the powers provided in this subheading, as to the particular
powers included in the authorization.
[Added 6-12-2006by Charter
Amendment No. CA-06-01]
In addition to other fees and charges authorized by this Article
10 or other law, the town may impose and collect fees and charges for the allocation of water and sanitary sewer capacity in the town's water and sanitary sewer systems, and to pay for the construction and expansion of, capital improvements to, and maintenance of the town's water and sanitary sewer systems.