The following terms shall have the meanings
as set forth herein:
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within Kilbuck Township upon which there
is erected a 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 improved property located in Kilbuck Township used wholly
or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering
or assembly of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved
property located in this Township from which waste, in addition to
or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any and all waste discharged from an industrial establishment
other than sanitary sewage.
OTSA
The Ohio Township Sanitary Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal
authority, the Authority's heirs, successors and assigns.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, owned, maintained and operated by or on behalf
of OTSA and/or Kilbuck Township, its heirs, successors and assigns.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Kilbuck, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, by and through its authorized agents and/or representatives.
Except as otherwise provided in this section
each improved property shall be connected separately and independently
with a sewer through a building sewer. A grouping of more than one
improved property on one building sewer shall not be permitted, except
under special circumstances and for good sanitary reasons or for other
good cause shown, and then only after special permission of this Township
or its agents, in writing, shall have been secured.
A. Costs. All costs and expenses of construction and
connection of a building sewer to sewer shall be borne by the owner
of the improved property to be connected; and such owner shall indemnify
and save harmless this Township or its agents from all loss or damage
that may be occasioned directly or indirectly as a result of construction
of a building sewer or of connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
B. Point of connection. A building sewer shall be connected
to a sewer at the place designated by the Township or its agents and
where the lateral is provided. The invert of a building sewer at the
point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation
than the invert of the sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made in
the connection of a building sewer to the lateral and shall be made
secure and watertight.
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of 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 less than $300 nor 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 30 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.
Connection, engineering, and inspection fees
shall be established by the Township or its agents and may be modified
from time to time by the Township or its agents.