[Adopted 4-4-1955 by Ord. No. 377 (Ch. XIV,
Part 1, of the 1962 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Refers to Catasauqua Borough Authority as presently or hereafter
constituted, which has been created by said Borough Council and to
which has been referred by said Borough Council the specific project
of sewers.
Refers to the Borough of Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
Refers to the liquid, gaseous or solid waste
from industrial processes as distinct from domestic sewage.
Refers to that part of the sewer system extending
from a public main or street sewer to curb line or property line if
there is no curb, and where the main or street sewer line is laid
under a sidewalk, the word "lateral" shall mean and refer to the "Y"
connection from the main or street sewer line.
Refers to any structure erected and intended for continuous
or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals
and from which structure sewage and industrial waste, or either thereof,
is or may be discharged.
Includes individuals or natural persons, artificial persons
existing only in contemplation of law, and shall be construed to include
associations, partnerships, limited partnerships, joint stock companies
and corporations.
Refers to real estate which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent
to, the sewer system.
Refers to the normal water-carried household and toilet wastes
from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Refers to the sanitary sewer collection system and sewage
treatment plant together with appurtenant facilities about to be constructed
in and for the Borough of Catasauqua 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.
Whenever the sewer system is completed and ready
for public use it shall be the duty of the Borough to cause notice
of the fact to be given by advertisement published once in one newspaper
of general circulation in the Borough, and such advertisement shall
state that said sewer may be used by all property owners in the Borough
subject to the payment of any connection charges and of annual sewer
rentals in amounts as may from time to time be fixed by the Borough.
A.
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 60 days after the date of publication specified in § 210-2.
B.
All persons owning any property accessible to the
sewer system upon which a 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.
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 60
days after notice to do so from the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct or use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained, any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises for receiving sewage, after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 210-3 hereof, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sewage 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 in violation of this article, 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 take 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.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 210-3 of this article, 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 § 210-3, 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 article 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 60 days from the date thereof.
[Amended 5-7-1962 by Ord. No. 466; 4-1-2013 by Ord. No.
1288]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall, upon conviction thereof before the Mayor or any
District Justice of the Borough, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50
and costs of prosecution. Provided: each ninety-day period during
which such violation shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate
offense. Any person found guilty of violating an ordinance shall be
assessed court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred
by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings.
Borough hereby grants to Authority all and every
easement, right-of-way and any and all other rights necessary or desirable
on, over or under the streets, sidewalks and alleys in the Borough
for the purpose of constructing the sewer system therein.
