[Adopted 5-12-1970 by Ord. No. 694 (Ch. XIX, Part 4 of the 1970 Code)]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Waynesboro.
ENGINEER
The Borough Engineer of the Borough of Waynesboro, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
PERSON
Any firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, corporation, society, or group, as well as an individual. The present tense includes the future tense, the singular includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; and the word "may" is permissive.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by filtering.
VOLATILE INFLAMMABLE LIQUID
Any liquid that will emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below 160° F.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which water flows either continuously or intermittently.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff or subsurface drainage, into any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Engineer.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged upon approval of the Engineer to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall allow or cause to be allowed in or on any court, yard, area or the premises of any habitable building, or in, or on any vacant lot or other place, or direct or divert the flow on the property of others, any surface drainage which may be or may become a public health nuisance.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall place, put, discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes into any of the storm sewers of the Borough, nor shall any person, firm, association or corporation place any such product or matter where it might flow, be washed, or find its way into the storm sewers of the Borough:
A. 
Any garbage, human or animal excrement or other objectionable wastes.
B. 
Any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or polluted waters.
C. 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
D. 
Any water or waste which contains fat, oil or grease in a concentration of more than one to 100.
E. 
Any gasoline, grease, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, lubricating oil, kerosene, cleaning fluid, liquid asphaltum and any volatile inflammable liquid, gas, vapor, oils or grease. A volatile inflammable liquid is any liquid that will emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below 160° F.
F. 
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, iron or metal filings, waste or by-products, paper, pulp, industrial wastepaper, gravel or any other solid or viscous substance or water mixed with any of such substances.
G. 
Any waters or wastes containing inorganic acid or acids in a concentration of more than one to 100.
H. 
Any water or wastes containing suspended solids in excess of 200 ppm, of an unusual character or quantity and having a deleterious effect upon the receiving stream.
I. 
Any waters or wastes containing toxic, poisonous, noxious or deleterious substances to the extent of being harmful or injurious to public health, animal or aquatic life or for industrial, domestic or recreation uses, including any waters or wastes containing any contamination that would cause or is likely to cause, impairment of the water's purity by any process or action.
It is declared to be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or discharge, or to cause, suffer or permit to be placed, deposited or discharged, any of the prohibited substances listed above in § 220-17, into any of the storm sewers of the Borough, or on or upon any street, alley or public place, or upon any private property in the Borough, in such manner that such substances will be permitted to run into any such storm sewer, or in such manner that the same will flow or remain loosely deposited in or upon any street, sidewalk, gutter or other public place in the Borough; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prohibit the use of said substances in making authorized street repairs, and provided further, that this article shall not be construed as prohibiting the ordinary drippings of oil from automobiles and other motor-propelled vehicles upon the roads, streets or highways of the Borough of Waynesboro.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article, or aiding, abetting or assisting in the violation of said provisions shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than 10 days. Provided, each day on which any such violation shall take place shall constitute a separate violation.