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

Rhode Island § 45-6-2.3

• Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
• Title 45: Towns and cities
• Ch. 45-6: Ordinances

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

(a) The cities and towns may promulgate all ordinances and regulations to implement a wastewater pretreatment program. Those ordinances and regulations may 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 violation of the ordinance or regulation occurs either through judicial proceedings or administrative 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 seeking compliance, penalties, or damages;

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

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

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

Legislative History

P.L. 1987, ch. 336, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 272, § 1.