[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Tullytown
5-16-1966 by Ord. No. 111 (Ch. 18, Part 1 of the 1985 Code). Amendments noted
where applicable.]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of
the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority, an Authority organized
under the Municipality Authorities Act of 2001, 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601
et seq.[1]
The Borough of Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
The engineer employed by the Borough or authorized member of his
staff.
The extension (house or building connecting sewer) from the sewage
drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any property within this Borough 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
waste shall be or may be discharged.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes or form
of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or
business process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural
resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the curbline
or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property line or, if no such lateral
shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion of, or place in,
a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer or service
connection.
Any watercourse, ditch, pond, lake or other body of surface or ground
water.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any property located in this Borough.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and commercial and industrial establishments.
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes and
to which storm- , surface and ground waters may or may not be admitted with
the approval of the Borough.
The extension (house or building connecting sewer) from the sewage
drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sanitary sewage and/or stormwater,
surface drainage and industrial discharges.
All facilities owned by the Authority for the collection and disposal
of sanitary sewage and industrial waste.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit,
or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property
within the Borough, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Borough,
human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
B.
It shall be unlawful to discharge sanitary sewage into
any natural outlet within the Borough or to discharge industrial waste or
other polluted water into said outlets unless the person so doing is operating
with the approval of or under a permit issued by the Department of Health
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
C.
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or similar receptacle intended or used for the disposal of sanitary sewage within the Borough where such sewage emanates from any premises described in Subsection D below.
D.
Each owner of any improved property situated in the Borough and abutting on or adjoining any street in which a sewer forming a part of the sewer system is located where the principal building is within 150 feet of said sewer shall at his own expense install suitable sanitary facilities therein and connect such facilities directly with such sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 45 days after the date of official notice to do so given in the manner provided by law. In the event any owner of such property shall refuse or neglect to connect with such sewer within said forty-five-day period, the Borough or its agent, the Authority, may enter upon such property and construct such connection. In such case, the Borough shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of construction of such connection to the owner of the property to which connection has been so made, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by the owner of such property to pay said bill, municipal liens shall be filed for said construction of said connection, the same to be subject in all respects to the general law provided for the filing and recovery of municipal liens. The above regulations shall not apply to the owner of any property who is operating under a permit from, or with the approval of, the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Such private sanitary facilities may not be connected to any sanitary sewer operated by or for the Authority until the owner of the premises has received a sewer permit from the Authority as set forth in § 135-3; provided, however, that the Borough or its agents may construct such a connection under this Subsection D even though the owner of the premises has not received such sewer permit.
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 obtaining a permit, in writing, from the Authority and approval
by the Borough.
B.
Application to the Authority for a permit required under Subsection A shall be made by the owner of the improved property to be served, who shall accompany the application with the connection fee required by the Authority (if any).
C.
No person other than the Borough and its agents shall
make or cause to be made a connection of any improved property with a sewer
until such person shall have fulfilled each of the following conditions:
(1)
Such person shall have notified the Authority of the
desire and intention to connect to a sewer.
(3)
Such person shall have given the Authority at least 24
hours' notice of the time when such connection will be made so that the Authority,
as agent of the Borough, may supervise and inspect the work of connection
and necessary testing.
D.
Except as otherwise provided in this Subsection D, each improved property shall be connected separately and independently with a sewer through a building sewer. 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 other good cause shown and then only after special permission of the Authority and the Borough, in writing, shall have been secured and subject to such rules, regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by the Authority or the Borough.
E.
All costs and expenses of construction of a building
sewer and all costs and expenses of connection of a building sewer to a lateral
shall be borne by the owner of the improved property to be connected; and
such owner shall indemnify and save harmless this Borough and its agent 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 lateral.
F.
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at the
place designated by the Authority as agent of the Borough and where the lateral
is provided. The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection shall
be at a higher elevation than the invert of the sewer. A smooth, neat joint
shall be made and the connection of a building sewer to the lateral shall
be made secure and watertight.
A.
Where an improved property, at the time connection to
a sewer is required, shall be served by its own sewage disposal system or
device, the existing house sewer line shall be broken on the structure side
of such sewage disposal system or device and attachment shall be made, with
proper fittings, to continue such house sewer line, as a building sewer.
B.
Building sewers or service connections shall be constructed
in accordance with the following specifications:
(1)
Building sewers or service connections shall be standard
strength vitrified clay pipe with die cast or hot poured bituminous joints,
with the latter caulked with oakum or hemp; or cast iron with lead joints;
or as may be approved by the Authority. The minimum pipe size is four inches
on a two-percent grade.
(2)
Where groundwater is normally above invert of building
sewer or service connection pipe, tile pipe is to be encased in concrete so
that no infiltration can or will occur. Cast iron pipes with tight joints
need not be encased in concrete except at connection to sewer.
(3)
Under wet conditions, the building sewer, as well as
any pipe disturbed in the sewer, shall be fully encased in concrete.
(4)
No infiltration will be allowed in the building sewer
or service connection.
C.
No building sewer shall be covered until it has been
inspected and approved by this Borough or its agent. If any part of a building
sewer is covered before so being inspected and approved, it shall be uncovered
for inspection at the cost and expense of the owner of the improved property
to be connected to a sewer.
D.
Every building sewer of any improved property shall be
maintained in a sanitary and safe operating condition by the owner of such
improved property.
E.
Every excavation for a building sewer shall be guarded
adequately with barricades and lights to protect all persons from damage and
injury. Streets, sidewalks and other public property disturbed in the course
of installation of a building sewer shall be restored, at the cost and expense
of the owner of the improved property being connected, in a manner satisfactory
to this Borough.
F.
If any person shall fail or refuse, upon receipt of a
notice of the Authority in writing, to remedy any unsatisfactory condition
with respect to a building sewer, within 60 days of receipt of such notice,
the Authority may refuse to permit such person to discharge sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes into the sewer system until such unsatisfactory condition
shall have been remedied to the satisfaction of the Authority.
G.
The Borough reserves the right to adopt, from time to
time, additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and proper
relating to connections with a sewer and the sewer system, which additional
rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate, shall be and shall be constructed
as part of this chapter.
Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority is hereby appointed as
the agent of the Borough for the purpose of receiving all applications for
permits required under the provision of this chapter, designating place of
connection, and to carry out all inspections, observations, measurements,
samplings and testing required or permitted hereunder.
The Borough Engineer and other duly authorized employees of the Borough
and of its agent, the Authority, bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing, in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
[Amended 11-26-1985 by Ord.
No. 175]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
more than $300, together with costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 30 days. Every day that a violation of this chapter continues
shall constitute a separate offense. Any person violating any provision of
this chapter, in addition to becoming liable for a fine and penalty, shall
become liable to the Borough for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned the
Borough by reason of such violation.
