[Adopted 5-14-1990 by Ord. No. 90-3]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BUSINESS
Any person or persons, corporation, partnership, or other
entity engaged in the buying, selling, storing, transferring, transporting
and/or manufacturing of properties, merchandise, chemicals or other
fuels, and/or goods, and who do so for any form of compensation.
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT
Any incident that occurs from the storage, transportation,
use and/or manufacturing of any substance potentially dangerous to
the public health and welfare at large that necessitates:
A.
The intervention of the Hilltown Township Police
Department or any of the emergency agencies, including fire, ambulance,
or rescue squads which may serve Hilltown Township, including, but
not limited to, the fire companies, or any rescue squad operating
or providing service in Hilltown Township or the Hilltown Township
Emergency Management Organization;
B.
The need for cleanup and/or abatement measures
to be performed by Township employees, or other matters resulting
in expense to the Township.
PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE
Bridges, state highways, Township streets, any navigable
waterways or other roadways or watercourses owned by a Township governmental
unit, or other privately owned street, parking lot, or accessway to
which the public has access.
[Adopted 9-22-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-1]
This article shall be known as the "Hilltown Township Emergency
Service Cost Reimbursement Ordinance."
Any attempt by a Fire Department or third party billing service
to recover costs from any individual/entity other than the appropriate
insurance company/carrier shall result in the immediate revocation
of the authority to recover such costs granted under this article.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this article is
for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such
unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or
impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections
or parts of this article. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
the Township Supervisors that this article would have been adopted
had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section
or part thereof been included herein.