§ 126-1. [Sewage lift stations for franchised sewer systems.]

(a)

Findings. The Board of County Commissioners hereby makes the following findings:

(1)

The County has granted the right to franchisees to operate public water and sewerage systems in the unincorporated area of the County.

(2)

Due to topography and other factors, the use of lift stations is often essential to the proper and safe operation of public sewerage systems in the County.

(3)

Improper operation and maintenance of sewage lift stations can create conditions which endanger the public health and general welfare.

(4)

In order to enable effective regulation and proper operation and maintenance of sewage lift stations, it is appropriate to require franchisees to operate and maintain all new lift stations which pump sewage into or through their respective public sewerage systems.

(b)

Franchises to operate and maintain lift stations.

(1)

All sewage lift stations with a rated capacity in excess of 2,000 gallons per day, for which application for State Department of Environmental Regulation approval is made after the effective date of this section and which pump sewage into or through a County-franchised public sewerage system, shall be operated and maintained by the franchisee of said system.

(2)

No charge or fee shall be imposed by a franchisee for the operation and maintenance of a sewage lift station except as approved by the Board of County Commissioners.

(c)

Lift station requirements for development approval. After the effective date of this section, no final plat, site and development plan or building permit shall be approved for new developments which fail to provide adequate public rights-of-way, private easements and/or other necessary access to lift stations required by the development.

(Ord. No. 79-037, §§ 1—3, 5-1-1979)