[Adopted 1-14-1980 by Ord. No. 5-79
as Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. A of the 1980 Code]
The following definitions and terms shall apply
in the interpretation and enforcement of this article:
Any piping connection or other device whereby water may be
secured from a source other than that normally used.
Any system of piping or other arrangement whereby the water
may be diverted around any part or portion of a water purification
plant.
Any physical connection whereby the public water supply is
connected with any other water supply system, whether public or private,
either inside or outside of any building or buildings, in a manner
that a flow of water into the public water supply is possible either
through the manipulation of valves or because of any other arrangement.
Any system of piping or other arrangement whereby the public
water supply is connected directly with a sewer, drain, conduit, poll,
storage reservoir or other device which normally contains sewage or
other waste or liquid which would be capable of importing contamination
to the public water supply.
The water works system furnishing water to the City for general
use.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause
a cross-connection, auxiliary intake, bypass or interconnection to
be made unless specifically approved by the Superintendent of the
Water Works, and the operation of any existing cross-connection, auxiliary
intake, bypass or interconnection is at all times under the direct
supervision of the Superintendent of Utilities.
Any person whose premises are supplied with
water from the public water supply and who also has on the same premises
a separate source of water supply, or who stores water in an uncovered
or unsanitary storage reservoir from which the water stored therein
is circulated through a piping system, shall file with the Superintendent
of Utilities a statement of the nonexistence of unapproved or unauthorized
cross-connections, auxiliary intakes, bypasses or interconnections.
The statement shall also contain an agreement that no cross-connection,
auxiliary intake, bypass or interconnection will be permitted upon
the premises until the construction and operation and maintenance
of the same have been placed under the direct supervision of the Superintendent
of Utilities.
[Added 6-12-1995 by Ord. No. 14-95]
No private well or other water supply system
shall be constructed or operated within the corporate limits of the
City of Taneytown. This section expressly does not apply to wells
drilled by the City or to any well drilled for purposes of monitoring,
sampling or other purposes as may be required from time to time by
any appropriate governmental authority.
A.
Any person who now has cross-connections, auxiliary
intakes, bypasses or interconnections in violation of the provisions
of this article shall be allowed a reasonable time within which to
comply with these provisions. After a thorough investigation of existing
conditions and an appraisal of the time required to complete the work,
the amount of time to be allowed shall be designated by the Superintendent
of Utilities. In addition to, or in lieu of, any fines and penalties
that may be judicially assessed for violations of this article, the
Superintendent of Utilities shall discontinue the public water supply
service at any premises upon which there is found to be a cross-connection,
auxiliary intake, bypass or interconnection, and service shall not
be restored until such cross-connection, auxiliary intake, bypass
or interconnection has been discontinued.
B.
Any violation of this article is declared to be a
municipal infraction. The penalty for violation shall be $50 for each
initial offense and $100 for each day any violation of the provisions
of this article continues.
[Amended 8-9-1999 by Ord. No. 8-99]
