[Adopted 6-20-1995 by Ord. No. 39]
The following terms shall have the following
definitions:
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.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
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.
Carroll Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
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.[1]
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.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1
et seq.
A.
No person shall install, construct, or request bid
proposals for construction, or alter an individual sewage system or
community sewage system or construct, or request bid proposals for
construction, or install or occupy any building or structure for which
an individual sewage system or community sewage system is to be installed
without first obtaining a permit indicating that the site and the
plans and specifications of such system are in compliance with the
provisions of the Sewage Facilities Act[1] and the standards adopted pursuant to that act. No permit
may be issued by Carroll Township in those cases where a permit from
the Department of Environmental Protection is required. A permit shall
be required for the installation of all individual on-lot sewage systems
for residential structures occupied or intended to be occupied by
not more than two families and the exception contained in the Sewage
Facilities Act, Section 50.7(a), shall not constitute an exception
from the provisions of this article.
[Amended 12-2-2003 by Ord. No. 51]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 750.1
et seq.
B.
Application for permits shall be in writing to Carroll
Township in accordance with the provisions of the Sewage Facilities
Act and shall be made in such form and shall include such data as
the Department of Environmental Protection shall prescribe.
C.
All other rules and regulations and provisions of
the Sewage Facilities Act shall be applicable as it relates to the
content of the permit, the design of the sewage system, the issuance
or nonissuance by the Sewage Enforcement Officer of Carroll Township
and all other provisions contained in the Sewage Facilities Act shall
apply to the issuance or nonissuance of said permits.
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.
