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ORDINANCE GOVERNING SURFACE DISCHARGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PEANTS IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAI~EINA The Board of Commissioners, having considered the necessity of an ordinance regulating the discharge 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 folowing ordinance pursuant fo the authority contained in Chapter 130 and Chapter 130{A) of the North Carolina ~neral Statutes. Section I - General Conditions: 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, r~locate 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 D~partment 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 reported to the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources ant Community Development for enforcement action. In addition, these systems shall be monitored by the Cebarrus Count~ Health Department et least twice within a six month period after the deadline imposed for compliance by the Depart- ment of Natural Resogrces and Community Development fo assure that compliance has been obtained. If, at either of these two monitoring inspections, the system is found to be out of compliance with the applicable requirements cited above, then the par~y 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.