[Adopted 10-5-1964 by Ord. No. 270, approved 10-5-1964 (Ch. 124,
Art. I, of the 1975 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:[1]
The Borough of Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
Each single-dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected and intended for continuous
or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals
and from which structure sanitary sewage is or may be discharged.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Improved property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent
to the sewer system or is benefited thereby.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial
establishments.
The present public sanitary sewer collection system, together
with appurtenant facilities and sewage treatment plant about to be
constructed for the Borough, and any improvements, additions or extensions
that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Borough
or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
A.ย
All persons owning any occupied building now erected
upon property accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense,
connect such building with the sewer system within 45 days after notice
from the Borough to such persons requiring such connection.
B.ย
All persons owning any property accessible to the
sewer system upon which an occupied building is hereafter erected
shall, at the time of the erection of such building and at their own
expense, connect the same with the sewer system.
C.ย
All persons owning any occupied building upon property
which hereafter becomes accessible to the sewer system shall, at their
own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 45
days after notice to do so from the Borough.
D.ย
Where more than one occupied building, as hereinbefore
defined, is contained in a separate structure, a single common connection
to the lateral of the sewer system shall be permitted for accommodating
all units contained in such structure, except that separate connections
shall be required for each semidetached or row-type house or structure.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises or otherwise for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in ยงย 442-2 hereof or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Borough, the storm sewers of the Borough or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains
a privy, cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible
to the sewer system or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains
any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary
sewage in violation of this chapter shall be deemed and shall be declared
to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance
the Borough is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner
provided by law.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system,
except in compliance with the ordinances and resolutions, as well
as such rules and regulations as may from time to time be enacted,
adopted, approved or promulgated by the Borough or the Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in ยงย 442-2, if any owner of an occupied building on property accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said ยงย 442-2, the Borough shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system and also upon the occupants of the building in question a copy of this chapter and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 45 days from the date thereof.
[Amended 8-12-1975 by Ord. No. 419, approved
8-15-1975; 3-14-1989 by Ord. No. 507, approved 3-14-1989]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this article before any Magisterial District
Judge shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs
of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
to exceed 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate
offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for such separate
offense.