[Adopted 10-14-1927]
The system of sewers heretofore authorized to be constructed
in the Borough pursuant to an ordinance adopted November 8, 1912,
amended by an ordinance dated July 26, 1926,[1] extended to portions of the Borough subsequently annexed,
as and when the same shall be completed and so certified by the Borough
Engineers, shall constitute and be the sewer system of the Borough
of Jenkintown.
The Borough shall be and is hereby divided into three districts.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The boundary descriptions of the sewer
districts are on file in the office of the Borough Manager.
[1]
Editor's Note: Sections 3 through 8 of the ordinance
adopted 10-14-1927 contained provisions pertaining to the initial
construction and assessments and are thus no longer pertinent and
have been deleted.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13]
No connection between any property and any Borough sewer shall
be permitted or made unless and until the assessment or sewage tax
against said property shall have been paid. In all cases where any
sewer lies in a road dividing the Borough from another township and
no provision has been made with such township for the joint ownership
or control of such sewer, the owners of property lying outside the
Borough desiring to connect therewith may be permitted so to do upon
the payment of the cost of such sewer, computed according to the foot
frontage of such property abutting thereon and upon the owner entering
into an agreement to pay the annual service rental herein fixed in
form as prescribed by the Borough Manager, subject to disconnection
if default shall be made therein.
[Amended 10-30-1967; 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13]
All connections of properties with said sewers shall be made
only upon application for a permit in prescribed form and shall be
made in accordance with such rules and regulations and upon such terms
and conditions as the Borough Manager shall from time to time adopt
and prescribe and Council shall approve. The Borough Manager is hereby
directed to adopt from time to time such rules and regulations and,
when promulgated by the Borough Manager and approved by Council, shall
have the same force and effect as if set out at length in this article.
The Borough Manager is further authorized to provide for the construction
by the Borough of private lateral connections in public streets at
the expense of the property owners applying for such connections or
to permit such property owners to make private lateral connections
under supervision by such Borough employees as it may order. A charge
of $175 shall be made for each such connection.
It shall be unlawful for any owner of property connecting with
said sewer to make any attachment thereto or to the house drainage
system or to open any cellar drain whereby rainwater, surface water
or subsoil water shall be permitted to pass into said sewer.
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted 12-12-1988, as amended 9-22-1988, added a new section to the ordinance adopted 10-14-1927 on the installation of garbage grinders. Since these provisions have been superseded by plumbing rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Chapter 137, they have been deleted here.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13]
A.
After a sewer connection has been made and a rental charge therefor
has been provided, no reduction or allowance shall be made for disuse
of any connection or fixture for which a charge has been or is entitled
to be made unless notice thereof shall have been given to the Borough
Manager on or before December 15 in any year and evidence furnished,
satisfactory to said Borough Manager, that such disuse is permanent.
In the absence of such notice or evidence, the full rental shall be
charged and payable for the entire year next ensuing. If the owner,
on or before December 15 of any year, shall furnish to the Borough
Manager proof of nonoccupancy of the property continuously for the
year immediately preceding, then the Borough Manager may in his discretion
reduce the rental charge, provided that such reduction does not exceed
1/2 thereof.
[Added 3-10-1933]
B.
All owners of property connecting with and using the sanitary sewer
shall pay an annual rate or rental therefor in accordance with a schedule
which shall be fixed from time to time by a resolution of the Borough
Council.
[Amended 12-12-1952; 9-29-1958; 10-29-1962; 3-25-1963; 1-20-1980 by Ord. No. 80-1; 1-26-1981 by Ord. No. 81-2; 1-25-1982 by Ord. No. 82-1[2]]
[2]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former
Subsection C, as amended, which immediately followed this subsection
and provided for penalties for unpaid rental charges.
[1]
Editor's Note: In the original ordinance, this section
was followed by a section describing the recordkeeping functions of
the Sewer Clerk. Since this position no longer exists, that section
has been deleted.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13]
The Council may at its discretion supervise the construction
of any proposed extensions of said system of sewers to be built at
the expense of any owner of private property and may take over the
same when completed. All such extensions when accepted and taken over
shall become part of said system of sewers and shall thereafter be
subject to the provisions hereof with regard to connections, service
rentals, etc.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by Ord. No. 80-13; 1-30-1989 by Ord. No. 89-2]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article
or any of the rules and regulations prescribing the method of using
or connecting with said sewers shall be liable to a fine or penalty
of not less than $20 nor more than $600, to be collected for the use
of the Borough in such manner as such fines or penalties are by law
collectible, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days,
or both.
