§ 42-64-9.3 - Criminal penalties.
SECTION 42-64-9.3
§ 42-64-9.3 Criminal penalties. – (a) No person shall knowingly make any false statement, representation, orcertification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document filedor required to be maintained under this chapter or by any permit, rule,regulation or order issued under those sections, and no person shall falsify,tamper with or knowingly render inaccurate any monitoring device or methodrequired to be maintained under this chapter or by any permit, rule, regulationor order issued under those sections.
(b) No person shall discharge into any outlet within theQuonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park any sewage or waste without a permit.
(c) No person shall construct or maintain any privy, privyvault, septic tank cesspool, dry well or other facility intended or used forthe disposal of sewage wastes or other pollutants within the QuonsetPoint/Davisville Industrial Park.
(d) No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligentlybreach, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure,appurtenance, or equipment, or dump garbage, refuse, or other material into anydrain, storm sewer or other part of the wastewater collection or treatmentsystem or on any property within the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park.
(e) No person shall uncover, make any connection with, oropening into, use, alter, or disturb any interceptor or appurtenance of thisinterceptor, without first obtaining written permission from the corporation.
(f) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged anyunpolluted waters such as storm water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurfacedrainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process watersto the corporation's wastewater treatment facility.
(g) Any person who is found guilty of violating willfully orwith criminal negligence any of the provisions of this chapter or of anypermit, rule or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter, or an order of thecorporation shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousanddollars ($25,000) or by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or byboth fine and imprisonment; and every person shall be deemed guilty of aseparate and distinct offense for each day during which the violation shall berepeated or continued. Further, the person shall be liable for all damagesdirectly related to the violation, including additional costs of handling andtreatment of any prohibited wastes, and shall reimburse the corporation foractual enforcement costs incurred by the corporation including reasonableattorney's fees and administrative costs.