Manchester 2255
82. PRIVATE SYSTEMS
The town may by ordinance provide that no water supply, sewerage,
or storm water drainage system, and no water mains, sewers, drains or
connections therewith, shall be constructed or operated by any person or
persons, firm, corporation, institution, or community, whether upon pri-
vate premises or otherwise, and may provide that cesspools or other pri-
vate methods of sewage disposal shall be operated and maintained in such
a manner that they do not and will not be likely to affect adversely the
public comfort and health and cesspool or other private method of sewage
disposal affecting or likely to affect adversely the public comfort and
health may be deemed a nuisance and may be abated by the town. Any
violation of an ordinance passed under the provisions of this section may
be abated by the town. Any violation of an ordinance passed under the
provisions of this section may be made a misdemeanor.
83. EXTENSION BEYOND BOUNDARIES
The town shall have the power to extend its water or sewerage system
beyond the town limits.
84. RIGHT OF ENTRY
Any employee or agent of the town, while in the necessary pursuit of
his official duties with regard to the water or sewage disposal systems
operated by the town shall have the right of entry, for access to water or
sewer installations, at all reasonable hours, and after reasonable advance
notice to the owner, tenant, or person in possession, upon any premises
and into any building in the town or in the county served by the town's
water or sewage disposal system. Any violation of an ordinance passed
under the provisions of this section may be made a misdemeanor.
85. POLLUTION OF WATER SUPPLY
No person shall do anything which will discolor, pollute, or tend to
pollute any water used or to be used in the town water supply system. Any
violation of the provisions of this section shall be misdemeanor.
86. CONTRACTS FOR WATER
The town, if it deems it advisable, may contract with any party or
parties, inside or outside the town, to obtain water or to provide for the
removal of sewage.
87. CHARGES
The town shall have the power to charge and collect such service rates,
water rents, ready-to-service charges, or other charges as it deems neces-
sary for water supplied and for the removal of sewage. These charges
are to be billed and collected by the clerk-treasurer, and if bills are unpaid
within thirty days, the service may be discontinued. All charges shall be
a lien on the property, collectible in the same manner as town taxes or
by suit at law.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
88. POWER OF TOWN TO LEVY SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
The town shall have the power to levy and collect taxes in the form
of special assessments upon property in a limited and determinable area
for special benefits conferred upon such property by the installation or
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