Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Maidencreek Township Authority, a municipality authority
of the commonwealth.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
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.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
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 within this Township, from
which wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage shall be
discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
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.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
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.
STREET
Include any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Maidencreek, Berks County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
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.