[Adopted 1-3-1962 by Ord. No. 62-3]
As and when sewer service shall become available
from time to time to the owners of improved properties, to the extent
that sewage can be collected and treated from said properties, each
and every owner of said improved property accessible to and whose
principal building is within 150 feet of any collection sewer line
of said sewer system, and which sewer is ready to receive sewage through
a service line installed by the Authority, shall, upon receipt of
written notice of the Township Supervisors, be required to connect
his or her premises with the sewage collection system without delay,
in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Authority currently
in effect covering such connections.
As from time to time sewer service becomes available
to additional properties within the Township limits by reason of the
improvement of properties abutting on, adjoining or accessible to
the sewage collection system or by reason of extensions of the sewage
collection system so as to make sewer service available to additional
improved properties, each and every owner of such additional properties
accessible to and whose principal building is within 150 feet of any
sewer of said sewage collection system shall likewise, upon receipt
of written notice of the Township Supervisors ordering connection,
be required to connect his or her premises with the sewage collection
system, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Authority
currently in effect covering such connections.
If any owner of improved property accessible
to and whose principal building is within 150 feet of a collection
sewer line of said sewer system shall neglect or refuse to connect
with said sewer system after written notice so to do, the Township
Supervisors may give such owner 60 days written notice of this article,
and upon failure of such owner to make the required connection within
said sixty-day period, the Township Supervisors or their agents may,
in accordance with the provisions of the Second Class Township Code,[1] enter upon such property and construct such connection
and, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost
of the construction of such connection to the property owner, which
bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by
the owner of such property to pay said bill, it shall be the duty
of the Township Supervisors to file municipal liens for said construction
within six months of the date of the completion of the construction
of said connection.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 65101
et seq.
[Amended 8-4-1982 by Ord. No. 82-8]
If any owner of property within the Township shall have failed to connect his or her property with the sewage collection system as required by § 135-1 or § 135-2 and the Township Supervisors shall have given such owner 60 days notice of this article pursuant to § 135-3, and if such owner shall have failed within said sixty-day period to make the required connection, such failure shall be and hereby is declared a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful, 60 days from the receipt
of written notice of this article, for any person, firm or corporation
to own, maintain, operate or use within the Township a privy, cesspool,
vault, septic tank or similar receptacle for sanitary sewage upon
any property now or hereafter improved, which is accessible to and
whose principal building is within 150 feet of a collection sewer
line of said sewage collection system, or to connect any such privy,
cesspool, vault, septic tank or similar receptacle with any such sewer
or to discharge sewage into any storm sewer or other sewer or outlet
other than the sewage collection system.
[Amended 8-4-1982 by Ord. No. 82-8; 9-19-1996 by Ord. No.
96-3; 6-3-1998 by Ord. No. 98-4; 11-18-1999 by Ord. No. 99-16; 2-4-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-1]
Any person, persons, copartnership or corporation violating any provision of Chapter 135 (Sewers) of the Codified Ordinances of Lower Salford Township shall be subject to a criminal fine not to exceed $1,000 per violation of this article and imprisonment of such person or persons or the members of such copartnership or the officers of such corporation responsible for such violation in the Montgomery County correctional facility to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Enforcement of any such violations of this article shall be by action brought before a District Justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure. A separate offense shall be committed for each 90 days or fraction thereof that a violation persists.
[Amended 3-20-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-3]
A.Â
Only normal sewage, as defined by the regulations
of the Authority, shall be discharged into any Township sanitary sewer
system. The following shall not be discharged into the system:
(1)Â
Industrial waste.
(2)Â
Automobile oil and other nondomestic oil.
(3)Â
Toxic or hazardous substances or chemicals, including
but not limited to pesticides, disinfectants (excluding household
cleaners), acids, paints, paint thinners, herbicides, gasoline and
other solvents.
(4)Â
Clean surface water or groundwater, including water
from the roof or cellar drains, springs, basement sump pumps and french
drains.
B.Â
Any person or entity who or which shall violate the
provisions outlined herein regarding sewage discharged into the sewer
system shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 per violation,
as well as attorney's fees and costs.
In recognition of the necessity of requiring connections to the sewer system in order to protect the public health, in order to comply with the requirements of the Sanitary Water Board and in order to enable the Authority to finance the construction of said sewer system and to assure continuous operation of the same, the Township hereby covenants and agrees with the Authority and with the holders from time to time of the outstanding bonds of the Authority issued for the purpose of constructing said sewer system that the Township will not repeal or rescind this article so long as any of said bonds shall remain outstanding; that the Township will not amend this article in such way as to render ineffectual the intent and purpose thereof; that it will promptly give the notices contemplated by §§ 135-1, 135-2 and 135-3 hereof in such sequence and orderly fashion, in the light of the practical time limits required for connections to be made and the availability of skilled labor to perform the work, to the end that all accessible properties may be expeditiously connected; and that it will at all times vigorously enforce the requirements hereof and prosecute violations.
The Township further hereby covenants and agrees
with the Authority that it will, to the extent permissible by law
and not otherwise, appropriate to the Authority from time to time
sums equal to the fines penalties collected under this article less
all costs of collection paid the Township.
