Legal Documents of Halls
Code of Halls
Title 18 Water and Sewers
Chapter 6 Sewer Use Regulations
18-604 : Use of public sewers required.
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 Halls, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge any wastewater to an waters of the state within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater within the Town of Halls.
The owners of all houses, building or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the Town of Halls, 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 sewer of the POTW, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sanitary sewer by means of a building sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 60 days after official notice to do so. Such connection shall be made at the place and in the manner as directed by the control authority.
Where a POTW sanitary sewer is not available within 500 feet of the building sewer, the building sewer shall be connected to a private subsurface sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this chapter and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Groundwater Protection Chapter 1200-1-6, New and Amended Rules, Regulations to Govern Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems.
The owner of any residence, office, recreational facility, or other establishment used for human occupancy where the building drain is below the elevation necessary to obtain a grade equivalent to 1/8-inch per foot in the building sewer, but is otherwise accessible to a public sewer as provided in this section. The owner shall provide a private sewage pumping station (grinder pump) to convey wastewater into the POTW sanitary sewer at the expense of the owner.