[Adopted 5-24-1985 by Ord. No. 9-1985 (Ch.
131, Part 2, of the 1994 Code)]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms and phrases used in this
Part 2 shall be as follows:
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property.
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association,
society, trust, corporation or other group or entity.
Sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sewage and owned
or to be owned by the Borough.
A.Â
No person shall uncover, connect with, make any opening
into or use in any manner any part of the sewage collection system
without first making application for and securing a permit, in writing,
from this Borough. Such application shall be made on a form to be
provided by this Borough.
B.Â
The application for and payment for a sewer permit
shall be required prior to the issuance of any building permit for
new construction within the Borough.
[Added 4-21-1987]
This Borough does charge a tapping fee, in the amount set forth in § 269-24, against the owner of any property whenever such owner shall connect any such property to the sewage collection system. Such tapping fee is charged for connection of each such property to the sewage collection system by the owner of such property.
The amount of the tapping fee for connection of each property to the sewage collection system shall be $550, subject to any discount allowable under § 269-26 hereof.
The tapping fee shall be due and payable at the time application is made to this Borough to make any such connection to the sewage collection system, as provided in § 269-22, or upon the date when the Borough shall connect or shall order connection, as appropriate, of any such property to the sewage collection system, at the cost and expense of the owner, when such owner shall have failed to make such connection as required by the Borough pursuant to the provisions of the ordinance then in effect requiring such connection.
Any owner of property who shall apply to the
Borough for a permit to connect such property to the sewage collection
system within 60 days of the date such owner is advised by the Borough
that sewer facilities are available for such connection shall be entitled
to a discount of $50 on the tapping fee.
All tapping fees shall be payable to the Treasurer
of this Borough or to such other officer or representative of this
Borough as shall be authorized from time to time by resolution of
the Borough to accept payment thereof.
Payment of tapping fees charged by this Borough
pursuant to this Part 2 shall be enforced by this Borough in any manner
appropriate under laws at the time in effect.
This Borough reserves the right, from time to
time, to adopt modifications of, supplements to or amendments of this
Part 2.
It hereby is declared that the enactment of
Part 2 is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of
the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this Borough.
