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ORDINANCE GOVERNING SURFACE DISCHARGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The Board of Commissioners, having considered the necessity of an ordinance regulating the discharg? of wastewater into surface waters of Cabarrus County, North Carolina~ and having found that the adoption of such an ordinance is in the best interest of the general health and welfare of the County does hereby adopt the f~lowlng ordinance pursuant to the authority contained in Chapter 130 and Chapter 130(A) of the North Carelina General Statutes. Section I - General Cenditimns: A. No person shall commence the construction or relocation of any residence~ place of business, or place of public assembly, nor shall any person locate, relocate or cause to be located or to be relocated any residence other than one exhibited for sale or stored for the purpose of later sale on a site in an area not served by a public system of sewage treatment without first obtaining a discharge permit and an authorization permit from the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development (NRCD) or an improvements permit from the Cabarrus County Health Department. Copies of discharge authorization permits shall be filed with the health department prior to the issuance of a building permit and shall include the location of the surface discharge system and the exact location of the point of wastewater discharge. B. The effluent of all package treatment plants and single-family surface discharge systems shall be monitored by the Cabarrus County Health Department for environmental impact on surface waters at a minimum of once per year. Systems out of compliance with effluent limitations established with the North Carolina Administrative Code shall be rep®rted to the North Carolina Department o~ Natural Resources an¢ Community Development for enforcement action. In addition, these systems shall be monitored by the Cabarrus County Health Department at least twice within a six month period after the deadline imposed for compliance by the I~epart- ment of Natural Resources and Community Development to assure that cempliance has been obtained. If, at either of these two monitoring inspectiens, the system is found to be out o~ compliance with tha applicable requirements cited above, then the party in violation thereof shall be punished as provided in General Statutes 130(A)-25. C. A violation of this ordinance shall subject the part in violation to punishment as provided in G. S. 130(A) of the General Statutes of North Carolina.