[Adopted 8-7-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-03[1]]
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Editor's Note: The former title of Art. III, Municipal Sewage
Collection and Treatment Systems, was repealed and replaced 2-5-2015
by Ord. No. 2015-2.
When used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings ascribed to them:
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Franklin, Adams
County, Pennsylvania, or in appropriate cases, its officially designated
agents, representatives or appointees.
A room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure occupied or intended to be occupied as separate living quarters
for a person or a group of persons living together or a family.
Any person or entity vested with ownership, legal or equitable,
sole or partial, of any real property or an interest in it.
Any individual, partnership, company, trust, association,
society, corporation, institution, or other group or entity.
A substance that contains the waste products or excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and
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. The term includes any
substance which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law
(35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.).
All facilities for the collection, pumping, transportation,
treatment and/or disposal of sewage, which systems were built and
operated prior to December 31, 2014, as community sewerage systems
to serve properties located in the Township. The only systems included
in the definition of "sewer system" are the Poplar Springs Community
Sand Mound System and the Cashtown/McKnightstown Sewage System, with
only those service areas existing when conveyed to Pennsylvania American
Water Company.
[Amended 4-3-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-03]
The Township of Franklin, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
A.
The owner of any dwelling unit within 150 feet of
the sewer system shall connect such dwelling unit to the sewer system
and shall use such sewer system in such manner as the Township may
require. Such connection shall be made within 60 days after written
notice from the Township requiring such a connection has been sent
by the Township to the owner or any of them.
B.
All sewage from a dwelling unit, after connection
to the sewer system, shall be discharged into the sewer system, subject
however to any and all rules and regulations that may be adopted by
the Board of Supervisors from time to time.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit,
or permit to be placed or deposited, any sewage from any dwelling
unit required to be connected to the sewer system on any land, public
or private, that is not part of the sewer system and its authorized
operation.
D.
No privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic
tank or similar receptacle shall be maintained in relation to any
dwelling unit required to be connected to the sewer system. All such
privies, vaults, cesspools, sinkholes, septic tanks, and similar receptacles
shall be abandoned, cleaned, and filled so as to render them unusable.
Failure to abandon, clean, and permanently close and fill in such
receptacles shall be deemed a nuisance, and such nuisance may be abated
by the Township as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of
the property containing such a receptacle.
E.
Should any owner or person responsible for connecting a dwelling unit to the sewer system as required by Subsection A fail to connect to the sewer system within the time prescribed, the Township may enter the property and cause such connection to be made. The owner or owners shall be liable for the entire cost incurred by the Township in making such connection, plus 10%. The Township shall have the right to collect such costs and percentage by any and all means provided by law.
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Editor's Note: Former § 126-17, Connections to sewer
system, and § 126-18, Sewer rentals; collection, were repealed
2-5-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-2.
Any person who shall violate this article shall,
upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District
Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty
of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more
than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof,
the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues
or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and
each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute
a separate offense.
