§ 170-4. Use of public sewers required.

A. 

Connections to the public sewers shall be made only by the Town.

B. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Town of Federalsburg any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.

C. 

It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Town of Federalsburg any sewage or other pollutants, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this chapter.

D. 

It shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any privy, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for disposal of sewage unless:

(1) 

Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available and availability is defined as being located within 100 feet being 30.5 meters of the property line of the subject property.

(2) 

Before the commencement of construction of a private sewerage disposal system, the owner shall first file application and shall obtain a permit for the construction of same from the Board of Housing Appeals of Federalsburg, Maryland.

(3) 

All such installations shall be made and completed to the satisfaction of the Caroline County Health Officer and the Town Engineer of Federalsburg.

E. 

The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the Town and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Town, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of requirements of the Federalsburg Housing, Building and Plumbing Codes.

F. 

No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff of groundwater to a building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly with the sanitary sewer. Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers (or storm drains) to be a natural outlet approved by the Engineer. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged on approval by the responsible regulatory agency to a storm sewer or natural outlet.