[Adopted 11-12-1975 by Ord. No. 690]
A.
PERSON
STREET
The following words, as used in this article, shall
have the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto:
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
Any public way in the Borough of Monaca intended for vehicular
use, whether named and designated as a street, road, lane, alley,
drive or otherwise.
B.
In this article, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include
the feminine and the neuter.
[Amended 9-10-1996 by Ord. No. 822]
Every person who shall own property abutting
or adjoining any portion of a street in the Borough of Monaca in which
there shall be a sanitary sewer owned or constructed by the Monaca
Borough Municipal Authority shall, within the time limit hereinafter
prescribed, be required to connect the buildings erected on such property
to such sewer for the purpose of discharging there into all household
wastes, waste liquid and other matter customarily discharged into
the sanitary sewer system. The cost of making such connection shall
be paid by such property owner. Such connections shall be made by
running a lateral sewer from the main sewer to the buildings upon
such property. No connection shall be made until a tapping permit
shall be obtained by such property owner. The work of making such
connection shall be in conformity with all regulations and requirements
of the Borough, and no tap shall be covered until written authorization
to do so shall have been obtained from the Borough Manager.
Every owner of property abutting upon any portion
of a street in the Borough of Monaca in which there shall be a sanitary
sewer owned or constructed by the Monaca Borough Municipal Authority
shall be given 90 days' notice from the Borough Secretary to connect
all buildings on such property to the sanitary sewer, and, if he shall
fail to make such connection within such ninety-day period, the Borough
shall have the authority to make the same and to collect the cost
thereof from such property owner by filing a municipal claim or in
an action in assumpsit as provided by law.
No person shall make any connection with any
sanitary sewer until he shall have made application for and obtained
a sewer tapping permit, nor shall be open any street in order to make
any connection with the sanitary sewer until he shall have obtained
the required street opening permit.[1]
[Amended 2-15-1977 by Ord. No. 467-A; 9-10-1996 by Ord. No.
822; 12-10-2002 by Ord. No. 864]
Every property owner desiring or required to
make a connection with the sanitary sewer system of the Borough of
Monaca shall make an application with the Borough Manager for a permit.
The Manager, upon being satisfied that the proposed sewer connection
shall be in conformity with this article and all other rules, regulations
and requirements of the Borough of Monaca applicable thereto, shall
issue to the applicant a sewer tapping permit, upon payment by the
applicant of all applicable and prevailing fees, which shall be for
use of the Borough.
A.
Customer facilities.
(1)
A customer facilities fee is hereby imposed against
each residential, commercial and industrial unit connected or required
to be connected to the Borough's sewer system to cover the costs associated
with the installation of customer-owned facilities from the property
line to the unit or structure to be served. The facilities referred
to herein shall not include the sewer service line on the customer's
property, which line shall be installed and maintained by and be the
responsibility of the customer. The Borough does, however, perform
an inspection of the service line extension for compliance with its
rules and regulations, the labor and cost for which shall be part
of the fee.
(2)
The amount of the customer facilities fee shall be
set from time to time by resolution of the Monaca Borough Council.
B.
Connection fee.
(1)
A connection tee is hereby imposed against each residential,
commercial and industrial unit connected or required to be connected
to the Borough's sewer system to cover the cost of the facilities
installed by the Borough from the system's trunk sewer to the property
line of the property or unit to be served. A typical installation
would include a wye at the main sanitary sewer line and all necessary
piping and fittings to bring the line to the property line or edge
of the sanitary sewer right of way line.
(2)
To the extent that the Borough does not install the
connection previously mentioned then no connection fee would be due.
(3)
To the extent that the Borough performs an inspection
of the connection previously mentioned for compliance with its rules
and regulations, the labor cost associated therewith shall be part
of this fee.
(4)
The amount of the connection fee shall be set from
time to time by resolution of the Monaca Borough Council.
C.
Tapping fee.
(1)
A tapping fee is hereby imposed against each residential,
commercial and industrial unit connected or required to be connected
to the Borough's sewer system. The purpose of the tapping fee is to
recover the capacity of the collection facilities required to serve
each new customer. It shall have four component parts: capacity component,
collection component, special purpose component and reimbursement
component. The tapping fee authorized by this article and promulgated
by any resolution adopted pursuant hereto shall not include the cost
of operation and maintenance.
(a)
Capacity component. The capacity component shall
provide for cost sharing of general sewer system facilities built
to supply both existing and future service needs. Such facilities
would include but not be limited to treatment plants, detention facilities,
pump stations, interceptions and related appurtenances. This component
is restricted to the cost of such facilities, less any outstanding
debt and contributions-in-aid-of construction.
(b)
Collection component. The collection component
shall be the amount charged for the cost of collection facilities
such as trunk sewers and manholes. This component is restricted to
the cost of such facilities, less any contributions-in-aid-of construction.
(c)
Special purpose component. The special purpose
component shall serve as a reimbursement of costs applicable to a
particular group of customers, or serving a particular purpose or
servicing a particular area.
(d)
Reimbursement component. The reimbursement component
shall serve to collect tapping fees from new connections to facilities
constructed by parties other than the Borough (i.e., developers).
This component shall apply to sanitary sewer extensions made by a
developer which serve or can serve homes outside the development.
Therefore, where a property owner or developer constructs or causes
to be constructed at his expense any extension of the sewer system
of the Borough, the Borough shall provide for the reimbursement to
the property owner or developer when the owner of another property
not in the development for which the extension was constructed connects
a service line directly to the extension within 10 years of the date
of the dedication of the extension to the Borough in accordance with
the following provisions:
[1]
Such reimbursement shall be equal to the distribution
or collection part of each tapping fee collected as a result of subsequent
connections. The Borough shall be entitled to deduct from each reimbursement
payment an amount equal to 5% which shall be deemed to represent the
appropriate charge for administrative expenses and services rendered
in calculating, collecting, monitoring and disbursing the reimbursement
payments to the property owner or developer entitled thereto.
[2]
Reimbursement shall be limited to those lines
which have not previously been paid for by the Borough.
[3]
The Borough shall, in the preparation of the
necessary reimbursement agreement with the property owner or owners
or developer(s) for whose benefit reimbursement will be provided,
attach as an exhibit an itemized listing of all sewer facilities for
which reimbursement shall be provided.
[4]
The total reimbursement to which a property
owner or owners or developer(s) shall be entitled shall not exceed
the cost of all labor and material. engineering design charges, the
cost of performance and maintenance bonds, Borough review and inspection
charges, as well as flushing and televising charges and any and all
charges involved in the acceptance and dedication of such facilities
by the Borough, less the amount which would be chargeable to such
property owner or developer based upon the Borough's collection and
distribution tapping fees which would be applicable to all lands of
the property owner or developer served directly or indirectly through
such extension if the property owner or developer did not fund the
extension.
[5]
The Borough shall be required to notify by certified
mail, to their last known address, the property owner or owners or
developer(s) for whose benefit such reimbursement shall apply within
30 days of the Borough's receipt of any such reimbursement payment.
In the event that the property owner(s) or developer(s) have not claimed
a reimbursement payment within 120 days of the mailing of the notice,
the payment shall revert to and become the sole property of the Borough
with no further obligation on the part of the Borough to refund the
payment to the property owner(s) or developer(s).
(2)
The amount of the tapping fee as comprised by its
four component parts shall be set from time to time by resolution
of the Monaca Borough Council.
Every such property shall be connected separately
with the sanitary sewer through a house connection branch directly
opposite the building or nearest in a downstream direction. Grouping
of buildings upon one house sewer shall not be permitted, except with
special permission of the Borough Council.
Oil, grease, tar, gasoline or other liquids
that are not of the usual household nature, including stormwater or
drainage resulting from rain or snow, shall not be emptied into or
permitted to enter the sanitary sewer. Violation of any provision
of this section shall subject the owner of the property from which
any such unlawful discharge emanates to the penalties hereinafter
prescribed.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or
maintain any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or similar receipt
for human excrement upon any premises from which connection with the
sanitary sewer shall have been made. It shall be the responsibility
of the owner of every such property, within 45 days after connection
with a sewer to abandon, cleanse and fill any steel vault or tank,
under such direction and supervision as may be required by the Borough
Council.
It shall be unlawful for any person to connect
any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or similar receptacle for human
excrement with the sanitary sewer system of the Borough.
Any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other
receptacle, abandoned pursuant to this article, which at any future
time shall constitute a nuisance or a menace to health, shall be cleansed
and filled within 30 days of notice to do so from the Borough Council,
to the owner of the property upon which such receptacle shall be located;
and, upon failure of any property owner to comply with such notice,
within such time limit, such receptacle shall be cleansed and filled
under the direction of the Borough Council, at the expense of the
owner of such property.
