23. A monetary administrative penalty of $2,000 for a natural person or $10,000 in other cases may be imposed on the operator of municipal wastewater treatment works(1) who operates a sanitary, partially separated sanitary or combined sewer system without being connected to a treatment plant in contravention of section 5;
(2) who does not comply with a discharge standard provided for in section 6 or 7;
(3) whose works overflows or diverts wastewater in dry weather in contravention of section 8;
(4) who fails to notify the Minister of the events referred to in section 15;
(5) who fails to comply with the measures planned to minimize or eliminate the effects of an overflow, a failure of the equipment or a diverting in accordance with the fourth paragraph of section 15.