[Adopted 8-28-1975 by Ord. No. 245 (Part 11, Ch. 2, Art. A, Secs. 11-2001 through 11-2006, of the 1975 Code of Ordinances)]
[Amended 1-2-1991 by Ord. No. 91-1]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
The Malvern Municipal Authority.
AUTHORITY ENGINEER
An engineer employed by the Authority or an authorized member of his staff.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Malvern, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH ENGINEER
An engineer employed by the Borough or an authorized member of his staff.
COMMERCIAL SEWER USER OR SEWERED PREMISES OR PROPERTY
One engaged in, intended for or used as a store, office or other establishment or facility for the purpose of carrying on a trade, business or profession; and all sewer users which are not in any other use category.
INDUSTRIAL SEWER USER OR SEWERED PREMISES OR PROPERTY
One engaged in, intended for or used as a manufacturing, fabricating, processing or cleaning operation or facility and/or one engaged in the assembly of any product, commodity or article.
INSTITUTIONAL SEWER USER OR SEWERED PREMISES OR PROPERTY
One engaged in, intended for or used as a charitable or public service principal use.
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.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, pond, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each single-dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment unit, store, shop, office, business, commercial or industrial unit or family unit contained within any structure, erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged, located in the Borough.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property situated in the Borough.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or group.
RESIDENTIAL SEWER USER OR SEWERED PREMISES OR PROPERTY
One engaged in, intended for or used as a dwelling unit or units and accessory uses to such a dwelling as defined by the Borough's zoning regulations.[1]
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries sanitary sewage and/or treated industrial waste permitted to be discharged into the sewer system.
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.
SEWERED PREMISES
A building or any part thereof which is connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and occupied or intended to be used or occupied by a sewer user for or as a principal use (as defined for zoning 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 and all appurtenant facilities operated by the Borough in furnishing sewage service.
SEWER USER
The owner and/or occupant of any sewered premises.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 220, Zoning.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any owner of property who is required to connect to the sewer system pursuant to Subsection B below, to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle intended or used for the disposal of sewage within the Borough or, unless such discharge is pursuant to a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, to discharge or permit the discharge of any sanitary sewage or industrial waste into any natural outlet in the Borough.
B. 
Each owner of an occupied building situated on property abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there has been constructed a sanitary sewer and where any part of such building is within 150 feet of the sewer and is accessible thereto, shall at his own expense install suitable sanitary facilities therein and connect such facilities directly within 60 days after the date of official notice to do so, given in the manner provided by law. In the event any such owner shall refuse or neglect to so connect within said sixty-day period, he shall be deemed to be in violation of this article, and the proper officers of the Borough, or their agents, may enter upon such property and construct such connection. In such case, the Borough officers shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such connection to such owner, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by such owner to pay said bill, within 30 days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Borough officers to file municipal liens. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, no owner of an occupied building shall be required to connect such building to a sanitary sewer if the Council determine that connecting such building would result in an overloading of sewage treatment facilities.
C. 
No privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be connected with the sewer system at any time. Each privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be abandoned upon the making of connection to the sewer system and, at the request of the Borough officers, shall be cleaned and filled under direction and supervision; and any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by the Borough officers, cleaned and filled, shall constitute a nuisance, and such nuisance shall be abated as provided by law at the expense of the owner of such property.
D. 
There is hereby reserved to the Borough the right to refuse to any person the privilege of connecting any occupied building to the sewer system, or to compel discontinuance of the use of any sewer by any person, or to compel the pretreatment of industrial wastes, in order to prevent discharge into the sewer system of wastes which may be deemed by the Authority, the Authority engineer, the Borough or the Borough Engineer, to be harmful to the sewer system or to have a deleterious effect on sewage treatment processes or to be injurious to personnel operating the sewer system.
A. 
No person shall uncover, connect with, make any opening into or use, alter or disturb in any manner any sewer or the sewer system without first making application for and obtaining a permit, in writing, from the Borough.
B. 
Application to the Borough for a permit required under this section shall be made by the owner of the property to be served, in such form as may be prescribed by the Borough. The application shall be accompanied by the required connection charge and tapping fee imposed by the Authority (which has designated the Borough its agent for collection).
C. 
No person other than the Borough, or its agents, shall make or cause to be made the connection of any property with a lateral sewer until such person shall have fulfilled each of the following conditions:
(1) 
Such person shall have notified the Borough of the desire and intention to connect to a lateral sewer;
(2) 
Such person shall apply for and obtain a permit as required by this article;
(3) 
Such person shall have given the Borough at least 24 hours' notice of the time when such service line is to be connected and such connection made so that the Borough may inspect the service line and the work of connection and perform necessary testing.
D. 
Payment of the abovementioned connection charge shall entitle the applicant to have one lateral sewer installed to the curbline of his property, but in no case longer than 24 feet, at the expense of the Borough, including repaving. All costs of constructing such lateral sewer to a service line shall be borne by the owner of the property to be connected; and such owner shall indemnify and save harmless the Borough and the Authority from all loss or damage that may be occasioned, directly or indirectly, as a result of the construction which the owner is required to perform.
E. 
Whenever the surface of any public street, sidewalk or cartway is disturbed by the construction of a service line, it shall be the responsibility of the applicant for a connection to obtain street opening permits from the Borough or highway occupancy permits from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Unless otherwise required, all surfacing materials must be restored in kind, thickness and construction to the satisfaction of the Borough or of the Department of Transportation, as the case may be.
The Borough Engineer and other duly authorized representatives or employees of the Borough, 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.
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, or discharge any substance into the sewer system contrary to or in violation of Ordinance No. 246 (Article III of this chapter) of the Borough which, inter alia, prohibits discharge of certain wastes into the sewer system and provides for rules and regulations.
A. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article other than § 168-4 or 168-5 shall be served by the Borough with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. (The notice provided in § 168-2B above shall be deemed to be notice of a violation for this purpose in respect of violations of such section.) The offender shall within the period of time stated in such notice (if any, otherwise forthwith) permanently cease all violations.
B. 
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit fixed as provided for in § 168-6A shall be subject to a fine in an amount not exceeding $100 for each violation. A new and separate violation shall be deemed to have been committed for each day any violation continues beyond such time limit.
C. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of § 168-4 or 168-5 shall, upon summary conviction, be subject to a fine not to exceed $100 for each violation, together with costs of prosecution in each case.
D. 
All fines and penalties imposed for violation of any provision of this article shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Borough for the use of the Borough. Default in payment of the fine and costs shall make the defendant liable to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
E. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article, in addition to becoming liable for a fine and penalty, shall become liable to the Borough for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the Borough by reason of such violation.
F. 
Any person found guilty of or liable for violating any ordinance of the Borough shall be assessed court costs and reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings.
[Added 9-17-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-6[1]]
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Editor's Note: See also § 1-9B.