Section 134-24 RESIDENTIAL SEWER BACKUP
PROTECTION PROGRAM
A.
Each Fiscal Year, subject to annual appropriation, the Town
Council may,
within its sole discretion, identify and appropriate funds within the
Water and
Sewer Enterprise Fund of its annual Budget, in a total amount of its
sole
selection, to provide individual grants not to exceed $750.00, each, to
individual residential sewer customers for the sole and express purpose
of
providing partial funding for the installation of protective plumbing
devices
in the private sewer line of each such residence by private contractors
of the
customer’s selection. The sole purpose
of such devices shall be to provide full or partial protection from an
accidental backflow of untreated sewage into the residence of such
customer. When the funds so appropriated
in the aforesaid annual Budget have been exhausted, this program shall
be
terminated absolutely unless and until further funding is expressly
approved by
vote of the said Council, whether within the same Fiscal Year or in a
succeeding Fiscal Year.
B.
The Town Manager shall be solely responsible for the
administration of
the aforesaid grant program, and he shall prepare and submit
Regulations to the
Council as to how the program shall be operated. Unless
and until such Regulations have been
expressly approved by vote of the Council, the program, itself, shall
not
exist. At a minimum, said Regulations
shall provide that the program shall be operated purely on a first-come
first-served basis without bias or favoritism of any kind, that written
applications by each and every residential customer shall be required
in each
case on a form and with such additional information as the said
Regulations shall
require, and that the said Council shall be the sole approving
authority for
the award of each said grant by majority vote.
Applications which do not comply with the approved Regulations
shall be
rejected by the Town Manager and shall not be considered by the Council.
C.
The Town shall make no payment to any approved grant applicant
under
this program, regardless of the approval of the grant by Council,
unless and
until the work to install the device has been completed after the
applicant has
obtained all necessary permits and completed all required inspections
of the
work, to specifically include testing of the device where required, and
the
applicant has submitted final accounts to the Town Manager for the cost
of the
work which he has approved.
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Added Entire Section
4-27-92-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord.
No. 2-11 Amended
Entire Section & Title 1-10-11-Effective Upon Passage)