As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears
from the context:
BUILDING DRAIN
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drain system which
receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying wastes from a building to the treatment or
holding tank or to the public sewer main.
DEPARTMENT
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future.
OCCUPIED UNIT
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the public
sewage system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage is, or may be, discharged.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or
imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term “person”
shall include the members of an association and the officers of a
corporation.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewer system and any treatment facility, or other appurtenant
facilities owned, operated, or maintained by the Hilltown Township
Water and Sewer Authority or any other legally created authority,
and approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the
Clean Streams Law, Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, No. 394, 35 P.S.
§ 691.1 et seq. (1982), as hereafter amended, supplemented,
modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals, and any 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.
STORM SEWER
Sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
TOWNSHIP
Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.