Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article
shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Abbottstown-Paradise Joint Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania
Municipality Authority.
BOROUGH
Abbottstown Borough, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral or service connection of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within Abbottstown Borough, Adams County,
or the Township of Paradise, York County, or the Townships of Berwick
and Hamilton, Adams County, and within the area served by the Authority
upon which there is erected a structure or structures intended for
continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings
or animals and from which structure or structures sewage and/or industrial
wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sewage, excluding
any groundwater, surface water or stormwater.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to a
point behind the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to a
point behind the curbline projected or property line, road right-of-way
line, sewer right-of-way or easement line.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property located within the area served
by the Authority.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
SERVICE CONNECTION
That portion of, or place in, a sewer, in those cases where
no lateral is provided, which is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property, excluding any groundwater, surface water or stormwater.
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 collection,
pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes.
STREET
Any street, road, lane, court, alley and public square.