Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article
shall be as follows:
ALLOWABLE INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, waterborne waste
or form of energy ejected 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, which is allowed
to be discharged into the sewer system by the Board of Directors of
the Authority, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or allowable by rules
and regulations of the Authority.
AUTHORITY ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the Authority, including
any authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
DEP
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this Township upon which there is erected
any structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any property situate in the Township used wholly or in part
for the manufacture, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
of any product, commodity or article, or any other property situate
in this Township from which wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary
sewage, are discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovering or processing
of natural resources, but not sanitary sewage.
LATERAL SEWER OR SERVICE CONNECTION
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the edge of the street
abutting the property affected or, if no such lateral shall be provided,
then "lateral sewer" or "service connection" shall mean that portion
of or place in a sanitary sewer which is provided for the connection
of any service line.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the Township or any authorized
member of the staff of such engineer.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of East Hempfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and its duly authorized representatives or agents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, pond, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property situated in the Township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group.
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
Any sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to a service
line or house connection, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations,
sewer force mains and all appurtenant facilities owned and operated
by an individual, corporation, homeowners' association or other person
or entity other than a Township authority or a political subdivision
and used in the furnishing of sewer services.
SANITARY FACILITIES
Toilets, sinks and other plumbing fixtures and related piping
intended to receive and discharge sanitary sewage into a service line.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from
any improved property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic
tanks or cesspools, rainwater, stormwater and groundwater, as well
as roof or surface water, drainage of percolating or seeping waters
or accumulation thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries
sanitary sewage and/or allowable industrial waste discharged into
the sewer system, and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters
are not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE LINE OR HOUSE CONNECTION
That part of the main house drain or sewer line extending
from a point five feet outside the outer building wall or foundation
wall to its connection with the lateral sewer.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Devices and/or structures or facilities owned by the Authority
for the treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and industrial waste.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewage system
and used or usable for sewage collection or transportation purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
Sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to service
line or house connection, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations,
sewer force mains, sewage treatment plants, and all appurtenant facilities
operated by the Authority in furnishing sewage services.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater, surface water,
drainage and certain industrial water discharges, such as cooling
and air-conditioning waters.
STREET
A public way, including any highway, street, road, lane,
court, public square, alley or other passageway.
TENANT
Any person in possession of a whole or a part of improved
property who is not an owner.
Any person, individual, builder or developer
desiring or required by law to construct or install sanitary sewers,
lateral sewers and service lines to serve a house or any housing unit
within a real estate development shall, prior to construction or installation,
make proper written application to the Authority for a special permit,
pursuant to rules and regulations of the Authority applicable thereto.
The Authority Engineer and other duly authorized
representatives or employees of the Authority and of this Township
bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted,
at all reasonable times, to enter upon any premises connected or about
to be connected or required to be connected to the sewer system for
the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and
testing in accordance with the provisions of this article. The Authority
Engineer and other duly authorized representatives or employees of
the Authority and of this Township bearing proper credentials and
identification shall be permitted, at all reasonable times, to enter
any private sewer system connected or about to be connected or required
to be connected to the sewer system for the purpose of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing.
No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
damage, destroy, deface, block or otherwise tamper with any sewer
or any other structure or equipment which is part of the sewer system.
It is hereby declared that the enactment of
this article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Township.