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Manuals - Sewer Use Model Bylaws
Model Sewer Connection By-Law
1. In this By-law, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression:
(a)"________" means the "________" of "________" or the area contained within its municipal boundaries as the context requires;
(b)"Combined Sewer" means a sewer that is intended to conduct wastewater and
stormwater;
(c)"Council" means the "_______" Council of the _________;
(d)"Engineer" means the Engineer for "_________" and includes the Superintendent of Works;
(e)"Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group;
(f)"Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer for the collection and transmission of domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater or any of them, and to which uncontaminated or cooling water, storm, surface, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted;
(g)"Sewer" means a pipe, conduit, drain, open channel, or ditch used for the collection and transmission of wastewater, stormwater, or uncontaminated process or cooling water;
(h)"Sewerage System" means all pipes, mains, equipment, buildings and structures for collecting, pumping or treatment of wastewater and operated by the "________", but does not include a storm sewer;
(i)"Storm Sewer" means a sewer and all related structures designed exclusively for the collection and transmission of uncontaminated water, stormwater, drainage from land or from any watercourse or any of them;
2.
(a)No person shall connect any private sewer or building sewer to a municipal sewer without first obtaining permission therefor from the Engineer.
(b)No connection to a municipal sewer shall be made except under the supervision of the Engineer.
(c)No connection shall be covered until it has been inspected and approved by the Engineer.
3. Every person connecting to a sewerage system shall construct the connection according to requirements of the Canadian Building and Plumbing Codes.
4. No person shall connect any storm sewer to any sanitary sewer.
5.
(a) The owner of a building, the nearest part of which is not more than one hundred feet from any portion of a municipal sewer shall be required at the owners expense to construct a building sewer therefrom and connect the same to the said municipal sewer; provided, however, Council may exempt therefrom any such building as appears to it:
(i)to be adequately served with existing storm drainage and on-site sewage disposal systems;
(ii)would not be adequately served by connection to the municipal sewerage system.
(b)The Council shall not require an owner to connect to a municipal sewer until service from said sewer has been available to the property for one year.
6. Where a building has been connected to the municipal sewerage system or the Council has ordered a building to be so connected, the Council may by resolution order the owners of outhouses and septic tanks to remove such outhouses and to destroy or fill such septic tanks.
7. Except as otherwise provided herein, any person who contravenes any section of this By-law is liable on conviction to a Penalty of not less than $100.00 and not more than $1000.00 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term of not more than three (3) months.
8. All costs associated with the installation, connection, maintenance or repair of a building sewer connection to the municipal sewerage system, whether in a street, highway or easement, including the costs of any necessary permits, are the sole responsibility of the owner.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the foregoing By-law was duly passed at a duly called meeting of Council of the "___________" of "______________" held the ___ day of _______, A.D., 199_.
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Municipal Clerk-Treasurer
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