As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
AUTHORITY
The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Leetsdale, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, heretofore created by the Council of the Borough of Leetsdale
by Ordinance No. 276, of December 19, 1956.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which
receives the sewage or 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
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other
place of disposal.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer which carries a combination of sewage and intentionally admitted
storm, surface, ground waters and drainage.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food,
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
INSPECTOR
The person appointed by the Borough of Leetsdale and the Authority
and mutually acceptable to both, to inspect sewage works, including both public
and semipublic sewers, and including also inspection of building sewers and
other connections between occupied homes and other buildings and the public
sewers and semipublic sewers.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet directly or indirectly into a watercourse, pond, gutter,
ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food
that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely
under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle
greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC COMBINED SEWER
A combined sewer which has been constructed and is owned by the Borough
of Leetsdale, or constructed and is owned by the Authority, or has been constructed
by private parties and has been accepted by the Borough of Leetsdale or the
Authority as a combined sewer.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER
A sanitary sewer which has been constructed and is owned by the Borough
of Leetsdale, or constructed and is owned by the Authority, or has been constructed
by private parties and has been accepted by the Borough of Leetsdale or the
Authority as a sanitary sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights,
and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and ground
waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEMIPUBLIC SANITARY SEWER
Either a sanitary sewer or a combined sewer constructed and laid
by a developer pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Borough of Leetsdale
relating to sewers, and with the intent that the said sanitary sewer or combined
sewer shall eventually become a part of the public sewer system; but the responsibility
for laying, construction and maintenance of said sanitary sewer or combined
sewer and the disposal of sewage therefrom still remains with the developer
or other private persons.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water carried wastes from the residences, business
and commercial buildings, apartments, institutions and industrial establishments,
together with such ground, surface, storm waters and drainage as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and
disposing of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but
excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.