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Minutes following the 7/09/2014 Village Board Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Village of th Wappingers Falls will conduct a PUBLIC HEARING on the 9 day of July, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. at the village Hall, 2582 South Avenue, Wappingers Falls, New York at which time all parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard as to whether the Board of Trustees of the Village of Wappingers Falls shall adopt a proposed Local Law # 2 and entitled “A Local Law Amending Article IV, Chapter 122 of The Code of The Village of Wappingers Falls, Building Sewers and Connections” PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the purpose and intent of the proposed Local Law is to amend the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the proposed Local Law is available for review and inspection at the Office of the Village Clerk on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Village Hall, 2582 South Avenue, Wappingers Falls, New York. Dated: June 18, 2014 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF WAPPINGERS FALLS JOHN KARGE, VILLAGE CLERK Mayor Alexander opened the public hearing and asked Village Attorney Viglotti to explain the intent. Attorney Viglotti said this proposed local law is to codify existing practices. Village is responsible at the street level and the property owner from the street connection to the structure. If a building owner notifies the Village that they are having a problem with their building sewer connection (i.e. lateral), the Village shall immediately check the main line in the street in front of the building to insure that it is flowing freely. Any blockages in the Village sewer main shall be corrected by the Village. The Village shall notify the building owner if the Village sewer main is flowing freely. If the Village main is flowing freely and the building connection (lateral) is not, it shall be the building owner’s responsibility to hire a qualified firm to mechanically snake and/or jet the building connection to get it flowing freely again. Any blockages in the building connection (lateral) from the house to the Village main shall be the responsibility of the homeowner to correct. This includes tree roots intruding into the lateral if they are causing a blockage. The Village shall have no liability in clearing any blockage of any kind along the entire length of the building connection from the house to the Village main. If the homeowner’s contractor believes that there is a physical break in the building sewer connection, the location of the break will need to be documented via proper internal television by the homeowner’s contractor of the building connection. If a break is found Page 1 of 5