[Adopted 6-5-1975 by Ord. No. 297]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTHORITY
The Whitemarsh Township Authority, as originally organized and as presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the Board of Supervisors of the Township and to which has been referred by the Board of Supervisors of the Township the specific project of sewers.
CONNECTION
The connection of any structure to the sewer system.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the sewer system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage is or may be discharged.
PERSON
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO THE SEWER SYSTEM
Improved property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to the sewer system.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWER DISTRICT NO. 2
The Arlingham section of the Township, as more fully described in any applicable resolutions of the Authority creating such district.
SEWER SYSTEM
The public sanitary sewer collection system, together with appurtenant facilities, about to be acquired and constructed in Sewer District No. 2 of the Township and any improvements, additions or extensions that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Township or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
TOWNSHIP
Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, or the duly constituted and elected municipal officials therefor.
A. 
All persons owning any occupied building upon property in Sewer District No. 2 which hereafter becomes accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60 days after notice to do so from the Township.
B. 
Where more than one occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, is contained in a separate structure, a single common connection to the lateral of the sewer system may be permitted for accommodating all units contained in such structure, except that separate connections shall be required for each semidetached or row-type house or structure.
C. 
All persons acquiring title to any occupied building now erected upon property accessible to the sewer system shall at their own expense, upon acquisition of title to such property, connect to the sewer system in accordance with the terms of this section within 60 days after notice to such owner.
[Added 9-10-2015 by Ord. No. 957]
D. 
All persons acquiring title to any property accessible to the sewer system upon which an occupied building is hereinafter erected shall, at the time of erection of said building and at their own expense, connect to the sewer system in accordance with the terms of this section within 60 days after notice to such owner.
[Added 9-10-2015 by Ord. No. 957]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in Sewer District No. 2 accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 95-24 hereof, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Township, the storm sewers of the Township or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy, cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage in violation of this article, shall be deemed and shall be declared to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner provided by law.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property connected to the sewer system to discharge into the sewer system any roof water, surface or underground drainage water, stormwater or any exhaust steam or any oils, tar, grease, gas, benzene or other combustible gases or liquids or any garbage (unless treated in a manner approved by the Authority), offal, insoluble solids or other dangerous or harmful substances which would adversely affect the functioning of the sewer system or the processes of sewage treatment.
Any person owning any property connected to the sewer system who discharges or permits the discharge into the sewer system of substances prohibited in § 95-27 hereof shall be deemed and shall be declared to be maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner provided by law.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system except in compliance with the ordinances and resolutions, as well as such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be enacted, adopted, approved or promulgated by the Township or the Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 95-24 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property in Sewer District No. 2 accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 95-24, the Township shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system, and also upon the occupants of the building in question, a copy of this article and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 30 days from the date thereof.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 565]
The provisions of this article are declared to be for the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township, and persons violating any provisions of this article, upon conviction before any District Justice of Montgomery County, shall be fined $1,000 and costs. Each ninety-day period during which such violation of such provisions shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate offense. Each occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, whether or not the owners thereof shall be permitted to connect two or more occupied buildings or units by a single common connection to a lateral of the sewer system or shall be required to make separate connections for each occupied building or unit, shall constitute a separate and distinct unit under the provisions of this article, and the persons owning occupied buildings consisting of multiple units contained in the same structure who violate any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to the aforesaid fine for each and every one of such occupied buildings or units which are in violation of the provisions of this article.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township does hereby grant to the Authority all easements, rights-of-way and other rights on, under and over the public streets and alleys of the Township necessary or desirable to facilitate the construction of the sewer system, subject to all applicable Township ordinances.