[HISTORY: Adopted by the Municipal Council of the Municipality
of Monroeville 7-17-1984 by Ord.
No. 1428. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for the
use and maintenance of holding tanks designed to receive and retain
sewage, whether from residential or commercial uses, and it is hereby
declared that the enactment of this chapter is necessary for the protection,
benefit and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the
inhabitants of this Municipality.
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. "Holding tanks" include but are not limited
to the following:
CHEMICAL TOILETA toilet using chemicals that discharge to a holding tank.
RETENTION TANKA holding tank where sewage is conveyed to it by a water-carrying system.
VAULT PIT PRIVYA holding tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure is not available.
Any property within the Municipality 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
sewage shall or may be discharged.
The Municipality of Monroeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Municipality.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
The Municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to undertake
within its borders the control and methods of holding tank sewage
disposal and the collection and transportation thereof.
The Municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt
such rules and regulations concerning sewage which it may deem necessary
from time to time to effect the purposes herein.
All such rules and regulations adopted by the Municipality shall
be in conformity with the provisions herein, all other ordinances
of the Municipality and all applicable laws and applicable rules and
regulations of administrative agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Municipality shall have the right and power to fix, alter,
charge and collect rates, assessments and other charges in the area
served by its facilities at reasonable and uniform rates as authorized
by applicable law.
The collection and transportation of all sewage from any improved
property utilizing a holding tank shall be done under the direction
and control of the Municipality, and the disposal thereof shall be
made only at such site or sites as may be approved by the Department
of Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The owner of an approved property that utilizes a holding tank
shall:
A.
Maintain the holding tank in conformance with this or any ordinance
of this Municipality, the provisions of any applicable law and the
rules and regulations of the Municipality and any administrative agency
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B.
Permit only the Municipality or anyone acting under the direction
of the Municipality to collect, transport and dispose of the contents
therein.
Any person who violates any provisions of § 236-8 shall, upon conviction thereof by summary proceedings, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs, and, in default of said fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment in the Allegheny County Prison for a period not in excess of 30 days.
In addition, to any other remedies provided in this chapter, any violation of § 236-8 above shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the Municipality by either seeking appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction.
