The following terms shall have the following
definitions:
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection of sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature from two
or more lots and the treatment and/or disposal of the sewage or individual
waste on one or more of the lots at any other site.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE SYSTEM
A system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving a single
lot and collecting and disposing of the sewage in whole or in part
into the soil or into any waters of this commonwealth or by means
of conveyance to another site for final disposal; an "alternate individual
sewage system" shall mean any individual sewage system not heretofore
recognized by rules, regulations and standards of the department.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future, which would not be further subdivided. Whenever a lot is
used for a multiple-family dwelling or for commercial or industrial
purposes, the lot shall be deemed to have been subdivided into an
equivalent number of single-family residential lots as determined
by estimated sewage flows.
PERSON
Includes any individual, association, public or private corporation
for profit or not for profit, partnership, firm, trust, estate, department,
board, bureau or agency of the commonwealth, political subdivision,
municipality, district, authority, or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Whenever
used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or imposing
a fine or imprisonment, the term "person" shall include the members
of an association, partnership or firm and the officers of any local
agency or municipal, public or private corporation for profit or not
for profit.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use
of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes
pollution under the act of June 22, 1937 (P. L. 1987, No. 384), known
as "The Clean Streams Law," as amended.
SEWAGE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The official of the local agency who issues and reviews permit
applications and conducts such investigations and inspections as are
necessary to implement the act and the rules and regulations thereunder.
SUBDIVISION
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or other parcel
of land into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land including changes in existing lot lines. The enumerating of
lots shall include as a lot that portion of the original tract or
tracts remaining after other lots have been subdivided therefrom.
All applicants for a sewage permit in Carroll
Township shall comply with all rules and regulations as promulgated
and adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection and shall
otherwise comply with all other applicable provisions of the Sewage
Facilities Act, the act of June 24, 1966, No. 537, as amended.
All remedies contained in the Sewage Facilities
Act and the rules and regulations promulgated therein including the
penalties therefor shall be incorporated herein by reference and made
a part hereof and adopted as though they were a part of this article.