As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears
from the context:
AUTHORITY
The Upper Hanover Authority.
[Added 1-12-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
BUILDING DRAIN
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drain system which
receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside
the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying wastes from a building to the treatment or
holding tank or to the public sewer main.
DEPARTMENT
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future.
OCCUPIED UNIT
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 within 150 feet from the public
sewage system and intended for continuous periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals, and from which structure sanitary
sewage is or may be discharged.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or
imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall
include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewer system and any treatment facility or other appurtenant
facilities owned, operated or maintained by the Upper Hanover Township
or its duly authorized agent, and approved by the Department under
a permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law, Act of June 22,
1937, P.L. 1987, No. 394, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq., as amended,
supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals, and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful
or inimical to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to
the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
STORM SEWER
Sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
TOWNSHIP
Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.