§ 45-6-2.3 - Authorization for cities and towns to promulgate and enforce pretreatment and sewer-use ordinances and regulations. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 45-6-2.3

   § 45-6-2.3  Authorization for cities andtowns to promulgate and enforce pretreatment and sewer-use ordinances andregulations. – (a) The cities and towns may promulgate all ordinances and regulations toimplement a wastewater pretreatment program. Those ordinances and regulationsmay include the authority to:

   (1) Impose penalties of up to twenty-five thousand dollars($25,000) per day per violation for each and every day during which a violationof the ordinance or regulation occurs either through judicial proceedings oradministrative procedures established pursuant to this section;

   (2) Seek injunctive relief for any violation;

   (3) Recover damages caused by any noncompliance;

   (4) Obtain reasonable attorney fees incurred by seekingcompliance, penalties, or damages;

   (5) Require compliance by all users of the city or town'ssewer system, whether or not the user is a resident of that city or town; and

   (6) Include any other provisions consistent with state andfederal pretreatment programs.

   (b) To the extent that this statute conflicts with any othergeneral or public law, this statute controls.