[Adopted 9-8-1986 as Ord. No. 86-490]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
The Upper Merion Municipal Utility Authority, a municipality
authority incorporated pursuant to provisions of the Municipal Authorities
Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945, P.L. 382, as amended and supplemented,
of the commonwealth.[1]
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any property within this Township 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 wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any improved property located within this Township and used
or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing,
cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article
or any other improved property located in this Township from which
wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment,
other than 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.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transmitting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Township, and owned
by the Authority.
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a
Township of the second class of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 301
et seq.
A.
The owner of any improved property accessible to and
whose principal building is within 150 feet from the sewer system
shall connect such improved property with and shall use such sewer
systems, in such manner as this Township may require, within 60 days
after notice to such owner from this Township to make such connection,
for the purpose of discharge of all sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes from such improved property; subject, however, to such limitations
and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall
be established by this Township, from time to time.
B.
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be required under Subsection A, shall be conducted into a sewer; subject, however, to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Township from time to time.
C.
No person shall place, shall deposit or shall permit to be placed or to be deposited upon public or private property within this Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of Subsection A. No person shall discharge or shall permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within this Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of Subsection A, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to this Township.
D.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used or shall be maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer or which shall be required under Subsection A to be connected to a sewer. Every such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of this Township, shall be cleansed and shall be filled, at the expense of the owner of such improved property, under the direction and supervision of this Township; and any such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by this Township, not cleansed and filled shall constitute a nuisance, and such nuisance may be abated, as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
E.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or
similar receptacle at any time shall be connected with a sewer.
F.
The notice by this Township to make a connection to a sewer, referred to in Subsection A, shall consist of a copy of this article, including any amendments and/or supplements at the time in effect or a summary of each section hereof, and a written or printed document requiring the connection in accordance with the provisions of this article and specifying that such connection shall be made within 60 days after the date such notice is given or served. Such notice may be given or served at any time after a sewer is in place which can receive and can convey sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment and disposal from the particular improved property. Such notice shall be given or served upon the owner in accordance with law.
A.
No person shall uncover, shall connect with, shall
make any opening into or shall use, shall alter or shall disturb,
in any manner, any sewer or any part of the sewer system without first
obtaining a permit, in writing, from this Township.
B.
Application for a permit required under Subsection A shall be made by the owner of the improved property served or to be served or by the duly authorized agent of such owner.
C.
No person shall make or shall 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 Secretary
of this Township of the desire and intention to connect such improved
property to a sewer.
(2)
Such person shall have applied for and shall have obtained a permit as required by Subsection A.
(3)
Such person shall have given the Secretary of
this Township at least 24 hours' notice of the time when such connection
will be made so that this Township may supervise and inspect or may
cause to be supervised and inspected the work of connection and necessary
testing.
(4)
If applicable, such person shall have furnished
satisfactory evidence to the Secretary of this Township that any tapping
or connection fee which may be charged and imposed by the Authority
against the owner of each improved property who connects such improved
property to a sewer has been paid.
D.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, 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 for other good
cause shown, but then only after special permission of this Township,
in writing, shall have been secured and only subject to such rules,
regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by this Township.
E.
All costs and expenses of construction of a building
sewer and all costs and expenses of connection of a building sewer
to a sewer shall be borne by the owner of the improved property to
be connected; and such owner shall indemnify and shall save harmless
this Township and the Authority 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 sewer.
F.
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at
the place designated by this Township or by the Authority and where,
if applicable, the lateral is provided. The invert of a building sewer
at the point of connection shall be at the same or 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.
G.
If the owner of any improved property located within this Township and accessible to and whose principal building is within 150 feet from the sewer system, after 60 days' notice from this Township in accordance with § 133-102A, shall fail to connect such improved property as required, this Township may enter upon such improved property and construct such connection and may collect from such owner the costs and expenses thereof in the manner permitted by law.
A.
Where an improved property, at the time connection
to a sewer is required, shall be served by its own sewage disposal
system or sewage disposal device, the existing house sewer line shall
be broken on the structure side of such sewage disposal system or
sewage disposal device, and attachment shall be made, with proper
fittings, to continue such house sewer line as a building sewer.
B.
No building sewer shall be covered until it has been
inspected and approved by this Township. 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.
C.
Every building sewer of any improved property shall
be maintained in a sanitary and safe operating condition by the owner
of such improved property.
D.
Every excavation for a building sewer shall be guarded
adequately with barricades and lights to protect all persons from
damage and injury. Any street, sidewalk 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 Township.
E.
If any person shall fail or shall refuse, upon receipt
of a notice of this Township or the Authority, in writing, to remedy
any unsatisfactory condition with respect to a building sewer, within
60 days of receipt of such notice, this Township or 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 this Township
and the Authority.
F.
This Township 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 with the sewer
system, which additional rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate,
shall be and shall be construed as part of this article.
A.
Any person who shall violate this article shall be liable, upon summary conviction for a first offense and upon summary conviction for each subsequent offense, to a fine as set forth in Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III, General Penalty Provisions, together with costs of prosecution in each case. Each day that a violation shall continue shall be deemed and shall be taken to be a separate offense and shall be punishable as such.
B.
Fines and costs imposed under provisions of this article
shall be enforceable and recoverable in the manner at the time provided
by applicable law.
It is declared that enactment of this article
is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this Township.
