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Sewer Connection Bylaw
1.
In this By-law, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression:
(a)
"Town" means the "Town" of "Mahone Bay" 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 "Town" Council of the Town of Mahone Bay;
(d) "Engineer" means the Engineer for "Town" 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 "Town", 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 therefore from the Town.
(b) No connection to a municipal sewer shall be made except under the
supervision of the Town.
(c)
No connection shall be covered until it has been inspected and approved by
the the Town.
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
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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 Two Years.
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 the By-law is liable on conviction to a Penalty of not less than $100.00 and
not more than $1,000.00 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term
of not more than three (3) months.
8.
All costs associated with the initial installation and connection of a building
sewer connection to the municipal sewage system, whether in a street, highway
or easements, including the costs of any necessary permits, are the sole
responsibility of the owner.
9.
All costs associated with the maintenance, repair or replacement of a building
sewer connection from the property line to the building, including the costs of
any necessary permits, are the sole responsibility of the owner.
10. All costs associated with the maintenance, repair or replacement of a building
sewer connection from the property line to the municipal sewage system that
being the portion of the line deemed in a street or highway, are the sole
responsibility of the Town.
11.
The location of the street or highway shall be as determined by the Director of
Operations. If the property owner disputes the location of the street or highway,
it shall be the responsibility of the property owner to provide to the Town a legal
survey stamped by a surveyor licensed in the Province of Nova Scotia showing
the street side boundary of the property.
12.
All previous Sewer Connection Bylaws of the Town and amendments thereto,
are hereby repealed.
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13.
This bylaw is effective upon publication.
____________________
____________________
C Joe Feeney, Mayor
James A Wentzell, CAO/Clerk
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a bylaw passed at a duly convened
meeting of the Council of the Town of Mahone Bay, held the 24th day of March 2009.
Given upon the hand of the Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer and the seal of
the Town of Mahone Bay this 1st day of May, 2009.
FIRST READING:
March 10, 2009
"NOTICE OF INTENT" PUBLICATION:
March 17, 2009
SECOND READING:
March 26, 2009
MINISTERIAL APPROVAL:
N/A
DATE OF PUBLISHING:
April 07, 2009
FORWARDED TO THE MINISTER:
May 01, 2009
FORWARDED TO TOWN WEBSITE:
N/A