24.17.010 General policy.

Consistent with Section 40.370.010, it is the general policy of Clark County that:

(1)    For proposed structures or other developments outside of a UGA, connection to public sewer is prohibited except as follows:

(a)    In response to documented health hazards; or

(b)    To provide public sewer to regional park facilities, K—12 public schools or to uses within the urban reserve district otherwise required to be served by public sewer; or

(c)    In designated rural centers, public sewer is required when available; or

(d)    Where the county has contractually committed to permit public sewer connection.

(2)    Inside UGAs, connection to public sewer is required as a condition of building permit issuance for any new structure unless one (1) of the following exceptions applies:

(a)    The new structure is an alteration, expansion or replacement of an existing structure which will not entail a material increase in sewage effluent production.

(b)    The new structure lawfully incorporates no on-site sewage system.

(c)    The new structure is for single-family detached residential use, or a nonresidential use, generating a projected effluent flow of not more than seven hundred (700) gallons per acre per day, if:

(i)    Such use does not generate hazardous/dangerous waste, as defined by applicable federal, state or local law; and

(ii)    Extension of public sewer is impractical according to Section 40.370.010; and

(iii)    A covenant to the county surveyor or purveyor is recorded which commits the current and future property owner(s) to connect to public sewer within twelve (12) months of sewer becoming available. The covenant shall also contain a provision that commits the current and future property owner(s) to participate in a future local improvement district if this is the method used to extend sewer.

(3)    Inside UGAs, connection to public sewers is required as a condition of approval of new land divisions, whether by plat, short plat or site plan application, unless the following exception applies:

(a)    A two (2) lot land division where one (1) of the lots is, or will be, developed in a use that generates no sewage effluent. Any plat approved under this exception shall record a covenant prohibiting the installation of plumbing fixtures for any use on the designated lot unless the lot connects to sewer.

(b)    Short plats approved under Section 40.200.050(B). (Sec. 2 of Ord. 2007-10-01)