As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
COUNCIL
The group of elected officials acting as the governing body
of the Borough.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure or any portion thereof intended to be used
wholly or in part for the purpose of carrying on a trade, business
or profession or for social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable
or public uses, and which contains plumbing connected to or intended
to be connected to a public sewer. Hotels, motels and boardinghouses
or rooming houses shall be included in this definition.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure intended to be used wholly or in part for the
manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly
of any product, commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PRIVATE DWELLING, LIVING UNIT or DWELLING UNIT
Each room, group of rooms or enclosure, whether or not in
the same building or structure, connected directly or indirectly to
the sewer system and occupied by a family, by a group of persons living
together or by a person living alone.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWER SYSTEM
All temporary and permanent facilities at any time and from
time to time owned by the Authority or leased to and operated by the
Borough and used or usable for or in connection with the collection,
treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage.
WATER SUPPLIER
Keystone Water Company, formerly Norristown Water Company,
its successors and assigns.
There is hereby imposed upon each property served
by the sewer system and having the use thereof a quarterly sewer rent
or charge, payable as hereinafter provided, for the use, whether direct
or indirect, of the sewer system, based on the schedules of classifications
and rates or charges hereinafter set forth.
Industrial waste may be discharged into the
sewer system only with the written consent of, and pursuant to written
agreement with, the Borough and provided that rules and regulations,
which may from time to time be adopted by the Borough and prescribed
for the pretreatment of industrial waste, are fully complied with
to the satisfaction of the Borough.
No person shall discharge into the sewer system
any roof water, surface or underground drainage water, stormwater
or any exhaust steam or any oils, tar, grease, gas, benzene or other
combustible gases or liquids or any garbage (unless treated in an
approved manner), offal, insoluble solids or other dangerous or harmful
substances which would adversely affect the functioning of the sewer
system or the processes of sewage treatment.
All sewer rentals imposed under this article
will be billed for past sewer service. All sewer rentals will start
on January 1, 1965, with the first billing by bills dated and payable
on April 1, 1965. All subsequent bills will be dated quarter-annually
and will be due and payable on their respective dates.
The funds received by the Borough from the collection
of sewer rentals and charges and all penalties and interest thereon,
as herein provided for, shall be segregated and kept separate and
apart from all other funds of the Borough, and shall be used only
for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Borough in the operation,
maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other
expenses in relation to such sewer system and for such payments as
the Borough may be required to make under any lease or agreement it
may enter into in connection with, or the financing of, the sewer
system, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 2, 1945,
P.L. 382, as amended.
The Borough reserves the right to and may from
time to time adopt, revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations
as it deems necessary and proper for the use and operation of the
sewer system, and all such rules and regulations shall be and become
a part of this article.