[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 1]
This Part shall be known as the "Manheim Township Sewage Permit
Ordinance."
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 2; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
All words and phrases used in this Part shall have ascribed
to them the meanings and definitions as set forth in § 2
of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, as amended, and the rules
and regulations adopted thereunder by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 3; as amended by Ord. 7/7/1977]
No person shall install, construct or request bid proposals
for construction or alteration of any individual sewage system or
community sewage system or construct or request bid proposals for
construction or install or occupy any building or construction of
which an individual sewage system is to be installed without first
obtaining a permit from the Township of Manheim, York County, Pennsylvania,
indicating the site and plans and specification of such system.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 4; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
The positions of Sewage Enforcement Officer and Assistant Sewage
Enforcement Officer are hereby created, which positions shall be filled
from time to time by such persons as the Board of Supervisors of Manheim
Township shall by resolution appoint. No person shall be appointed
as a Sewage Enforcement Officer unless such person shall have been
certified as "qualified" by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection. It shall be duty of the Sewage Enforcement Officer, and
in his absence, the Assistant Sewage Enforcement Officer, to perform
the duties and responsibilities imposed upon Manheim Township in connection
with the administration and enforcement of the Pennsylvania Sewage
Facilities Act, as amended, and the provisions of this Part.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 5; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
Applications for sewage permits shall be made in writing to
Manheim Township and filed with the Sewage Enforcement Officer. Such
application shall be made on the standard form adopted by or prescribed
by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and/or
Manheim Township and shall contain such data as shall from time to
time be required by the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, the standards,
rules and regulations adopted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection and/or Manheim Township. The application shall be accompanied
by the applicable application fee or deposit as set forth in § 106,
below, which application fee or deposit shall be payable to Manheim
Township.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 6; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
1.
Application fees shall be the actual costs of administering and processing
the application in accordance with the prevailing fee schedule as
adopted from time to time by resolution of Manheim Township; provided,
however, that an initial deposit shall be paid to Manheim Township
when the application is first submitted in accordance with the fees
provided.
2.
Upon completion of the alteration or construction for which the permit
has been issued, Manheim Township shall refund to the applicant the
amount by which the above deposit exceeds the actual cost, or the
applicant shall pay to Manheim Township the amount by which the actual
costs exceed applicant's deposit. Final approval of the permit
may be withheld until any excess costs are paid by the applicant.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 7]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permanently cover or
cause to be permanently covered any test site, boring or excavation
done pursuant to a percolation test or probe hole test in connection
with the obtaining of a sewage permit unless and until such test site
boring or excavation has been inspected by the Sewage Enforcement
Officer and approval has been given to the applicant to cover such
site.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 8]
1.
In the event the Sewage Enforcement Officer is unavailable or is
unable to inspect the test site, boring or excavation done pursuant
to a percolation test or a probe hole test and where such excavation
shall remain open for a period of 24 hours, the owner or owners of
the land on which such site shall be located, shall cover or cause
to be covered any and all borings or excavations with materials which
may be removed by the Sewage Enforcement Officer to permit inspection.
The minimum standard for such covering materials shall be 1/2 inch
plywood of four feet by eight feet standard dimensions, which shall
be secured in a manner so as to prohibit and prevent children or other
unauthorized persons from gaining access to the test site boring or
excavation.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 9; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
All of the provisions of Act No. 537, as amended by Act No.
208, as well as such standards, rules and regulations as may be adopted
by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, from time
to time, as said provisions, standards, rules and regulations apply
to Manheim Township, are hereby incorporated by reference as part
of this Part, provided, however, that the provisions of said Act and
the standards, rules and regulations adopted thereunder shall apply
in every case regardless of the size lot or area to be served by the
sewage system, and notwithstanding any limitations to the contrary
in said acts, standards, rules and regulations.
[Ord. 24, 10/7/1976, § 10; as amended by Ord. 46,
2/5/1998]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and,
in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
