(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to deposit or allow or permit to be deposited any harmful sewage waste into the town’s sewer system. Harmful sewage waste shall be defined as any waste product, including industrial waste, which is damaging to the town’s sewage system or treatment facilities or which shall render ineffective the town’s equipment, apparatus and facilities for the treatment of sewage.
(b) Any person, firm, partnership or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter may:
(1) Be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined the sum of fifty dollars, and each day the violation occurs is a separate offense;
(2) Be ordered by the town to cease and desist from permitting the harmful sewage waste to be deposited into the town’s sewer system, and in case of failure to comply, the town may seek a restraining order and injunction prohibiting the continued depositing of the harmful wastes;
(3) Be required to pay whatever damages have been sustained by the town’s sewage system or treatment facilities by the depositing of harmful wastes.
(c) In order to determine if harmful wastes are being deposited into the sewer system, the town shall install such equipment as deemed necessary to detect the depositing of harmful waste, and any person, firm or corporation found to be depositing harmful waste into the town’s sewer system shall pay all costs incurred by the town in installing and monitoring such equipment as is needed to detect such unlawful depositing. (Ord. 518 § 31, 1974: Ord. 373 § 8, 1966).