When used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings ascribed to them:
BOARD or BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Franklin, Adams
County, Pennsylvania, or in appropriate cases, its officially designated
agents, representatives or appointees.
DWELLING UNIT
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.
OWNER
Any person or entity vested with ownership, legal or equitable,
sole or partial, of any real property or an interest in it.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, trust, association,
society, corporation, institution, or other group or entity.
SEWAGE
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.).
SEWER SYSTEM
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]
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Franklin, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
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.