[Amended by Ord. No. 54-1984]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
The Sewer Authority of the City, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any improved property
to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the City upon which there is erected a structure
intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human
beings or animals and from which structure sewage or industrial wastes shall
be or may be discharged.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the curbline,
or if there be no curbline, to the edge of the pavement or to the edge of
the cartway, if not paved, or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then
"lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided
for connection thereto of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any property located in the City.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any residential
establishments and nonresidential establishments.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting part of the sewer system used or
usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All the facilities now or hereafter owned by the Authority and now
existing or hereafter to be constructed in the City and in the borough for
the collection and treatment of sanitary sewage and acceptable industrial
wastes emanating from the City and borough.
WATER SUPPLIER
The Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company serving water in the City
and borough.
After the expiration of the applicable period specified in §
383-5, if any, if the owner of improved property accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by §
383-5, the City shall cause to be served on the owner of such property, so failing to connect, and also upon the occupants of the buildings in question, a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that the requirements of this article shall be complied with within not less than 30 days from the date thereof.
There is hereby imposed upon each owner of property connecting to the
sewer system after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section
was derived a connection charge of $25 for each connection to be made to a
lateral of the sewer system at the curbline or edge of road or right-of-way
line, where there is no curbline, or other place in a sewer which shall be
provided for connection of any building sewer. Such connection charge shall
be payable upon application for permit to make such connection.
In cases where corner lots have been divided so that an owner of part
of such lot does not front upon the line of the sewer, he may be allowed to
connect through the portion of such lot as fronts upon such sewer by paying
a proportionate share of the assessment of the portion of lot fronting on
the sewer and obtaining the permission of the owner of such fronting portion.
Connection through any other lot than such portion of the original shall not
be permitted except by special permission of Council and the Mayor.
Property owners in one sewer district shall not be permitted to connect
with a sewer in any other district except for temporary convenience, and then
only by permission of Council. It shall be the duty of the Director of the
Department of Public Works to see that this section is enforced.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system except in compliance
with the ordinances and resolutions, as well as the rules and regulations
as may from time to time be enacted, adopted, approved or promulgated by the
City. No connection shall be made, nor shall any connection continue to the
sewer system for the purposes of discharging sewage or industrial wastes or both therefrom which would impede, prejudicially affect, interfere
with or endanger the sewer system, or any part thereof, or the functioning
of the processes of sewage treatment or which would create a hazard to human
or animal life or to the waters receiving treatment effluent.