Ordinance - #73-11 - 08/20/1973 - Laserfiche WebLink

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SECTION 5. CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS. Every individual sewage disposal system installed after the effective date of this ordinance and every alteration, extension and repair to any system made after that date shall conform to the standards of the code adopted by reference in Section 2. Any individual sewage disposal system or pertinent part thereof, irrespective of the date of original installation, which is not located, constructed or installed in accordance with items lb and lc of the code shall be so relocated, reconstructed or reinstalled as to comply with the standards of those items. SECTION 6. ADMINISTRATION. The zoning officer shall enforce the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 7. INSPECTION. The zoning officer shall make such inspection or in- spections as are necessary to determine compliance with this ordinance. No part of the system shall be covered until it has been inspected and accepted by the zoning officer. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant for the permit to notify the zoning officer that the job is ready for inspection or re-inspection, and it shall be the duty of the zoning officer to make the indicated inspection within forty-eight (48) hours after such notice has been given. It shall be the duly of the owner or ocoupant of the property to give the zoning officer free access to the property at reasonable times for the purpose of making such inspections. Upon satisfactow completion and final inspection of the system the zoning officer shall issue to the applicant a certificate of approval. If upon inspection the zoning officer discovers that any part of the system is not constructed in accordance with the minimum standards provided in this ordinance, he shall give the applicant written notification describing the defects. The applicant shall pay an additional fee of Ten and 00/100 ($10.00) Dollars for each re-inspection that is necessary. The applicant shall be responsible for the correction or elimination of all defects, and no system shall be placed or replaced in service until all defects have been corrected or eliminated. SECTION 8. MAINTENANCE. At least once a year the owner of any septic tank or his agent shall measure or arrange for measurement of the depth of sludge and scum in such septic tank. lNhen, as a result of such measurement, the top of the sludge layer in the tank or any compartment of the tank is found to be less than twelve (12) inches below the bottom of the outlet baffle or submerged pipe, or if the bottom of the scum layer is less than three (3) inches above the bottom of the septic tank outlet baffle or submerged pipe, the owner or agent shall arrange for the removal and sanitary disposal of sludge and scum from the tank; provided that such requirement for measuring shall be waived for any septic tank which is cleaned as indicated at least once each calendar year. At least once each year the owner of any system equipped with a distribu- tion box shall arrange for the opening of the distribution box and the removal of any settled solids therein. Such material shall be disposed of to the septic tank or by other means acceptable to the Board.