[Adopted 5-8-1968 by Ord. No. 18]
[Amended 8-13-1975 by Ord. No. 33]
No person shall install a sewage disposal system or construct any building in which a sewage disposal system is to be installed without first obtaining a permit from the inspection officer indicating that the site and the plans and specifications of such system are in compliance with the provisions of the Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 537, Section 1, known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act,"[1] or other laws of this commonwealth, and the standards adopted pursuant to said Act; provided that the provisions contained in said Act applicable to sewerage systems shall be hereafter extended to and be applied to any and all sewerage systems, without regard to the size of the lot, parcel or tract of land upon which said facility is to be constructed and which shall result in the disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil of the said property or into any waters of this Township. A fee as set by the Township by resolution from time to time shall be paid to the Township at the time of making application for an individual or community sewage disposal system.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 750.1 et seq.
All other provisions of the aforesaid Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act are hereby incorporated into this article by reference therein with the same force and effect and with the same validity as though the said Act had been repeated at length herein, with the exception, however, of the provisions contained in § 159-1 above.
[Amended 11-14-2001 by Ord. No. 88]
A. 
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall be subject to all of the following:
(1) 
Shall be guilty of a summary criminal offense.
(2) 
Shall, upon conviction, pay the criminal penalty specified in Subsection B.
(3) 
Shall, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment specified in Subsection C.
B. 
The criminal penalty for a violation of this article shall be as follows:
(1) 
For a first offense, a sum not less than $500 nor more than $1,000.
(2) 
For a second or subsequent offense, a sum of not less than $750 nor more than $1,000.
C. 
The penalty of imprisonment for a violation of this article shall be as follows:
(1) 
For a first offense, a period of not more than 10 days.
(2) 
For a second or subsequent offense, a period not less than five days nor more than 15 days.