Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
The Lehigh Township Municipal Authority, a municipality authority
organized and existing under the laws of the commonwealth.
BUILDING SEWER
The sewage drainage system from a building constructed on
any improved property to the lateral serving such improved property,
including any grinder pump or pressure sewer or similar apparatus
or facilities installed by the Township or the owner and which are
located on such improved property.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property 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 sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in this Township used or intended
for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
any other improved property from which wastes, in addition to or other
than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the sewer system.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the property line, or if
no such extension is provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities of the Authority, as of any particular time,
for collecting and transmitting sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes discharged by an improved property within the Township, other
than a building sewer or a lateral.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Lehigh, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
a political subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its Board of Supervisors, or, in appropriate cases, acting by and
through its authorized representatives.
It is declared that enactment of this article
and the provisions hereof are necessary for the protection, benefit
and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of inhabitants
of this Township.