[Amended 4-23-1996 by Ord. No. 509]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Coopersburg, a
Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,
a municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and
through its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer, including the connection to the lateral.
Property owner shall own the building sewer and is responsible for
any required maintenance or repair of the building sewer.
[Amended 3-23-1999 by Ord. No. 530]
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this Borough upon which there
is erected or created a structure intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from
which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be
or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business
enterprise for the manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
from which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall
be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or water borne wastes,
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 sanitary
sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property line.
For sewer service lines connected to sewers located within easements,
the lateral shall be that part of the sewer system extending from
a sewer to the easement line. The Borough shall be responsible for
any required maintenance or repair of the lateral unless the maintenance
or repair is necessitated by an illegal discharge from the building
sewer or root growth which enters the sewer system through the building
sewer.
[Amended 3-23-1999 by Ord. No. 530]
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe, main 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,
transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and
industrial wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Borough, owned by
the Authority and leased to this Borough for operation and use.
[Amended 6-9-1987 by Ord. No. 419; 12-12-1989 by Ord. No.
446; 4-23-1996 by Ord. No. 509]
A. Permit required. No person shall construct any connection
to uncover, connect with, make any opening into or use, alter or disturb,
in any manner, any sewer main constituting a part of the sewer system,
without first making application for and securing a permit, in writing,
from the Borough Secretary. Such application shall be made on a form
to be provided by the Borough.
(1) Where a sewer lateral presently exists, in place,
having been installed pursuant to a valid permit, the applicant shall
be subject to the payment of a permit fee, as established from time
to time by resolution of Borough Council, to cover administrative
and inspection costs.
(2) Where new service connection is requested for premises
not previously served by a tap and lateral, the applicant shall be
subject to the payment of a permit fee, as established from time to
time by resolution of Borough Council, for a "first time" connection
for one dwelling, commercial, or industrial unit.
(3) Where a service line presently exists or is to be
installed by a developer, or is to be extended to connect an additional
dwelling units (as in an existing development area) a fee, as established
from time to time by resolution of Borough Council, per unit.
B. Application for a permit required under Subsection
A shall be made by the property owner or an agent with written authority from the property owner.
C. All connections to the sewer mains and the installation
of any lateral service line shall be accomplished in conformity with
the rules, regulations and specifications of the Borough.
(1) Only persons properly authorized by the Borough shall
be permitted to make sewer service line installations and lateral
cuts and installations.
(2) The Borough reserves the right to adopt, from time
to time, additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary
and proper relating to connections with the sewer system, which additional
rules and regulations, to the extent applicable, shall be and shall
be construed as part of this article.
D. Except as otherwise provided in this Subsection
D, each improved property shall be connected separately and independently with a sewer through a building sewer. Grouping of more than one improved property on one building sewer shall not be permitted except under special circumstances and for good sanitary reasons or other good cause shown and then only after special permission of this Borough, in writing, shall have been secured subject to such rules, regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by this Borough.
E. All costs and expenses of construction of a building
sewer and all costs and expenses of connection of a building sewer
to a sewer, including testing, shall be borne by the owner of the
improved property to be connected; and such owner shall indemnify
and save harmless this Borough from all loss or damage that may be
occasioned, directly or indirectly, as a result of construction of
a building sewer or of connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
F. A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at
the place designated by this Borough and where the lateral is provided.
The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection shall be
at the same or higher elevation than the invert of the sewer. A smooth,
neat joint shall be made and the connection of a building sewer to
the lateral shall be made secure and watertight
G. If the owner of any improved property benefited, improved or accommodated by a sewer, after 45 days notice from this Borough requiring the connection of such improved property with a sewer, in accordance with §
177-9A, shall fail to connect such improved property, as required, this Borough may make such connection and may collect from such owner the costs and expenses by a municipal claim, an action in assumpsit or such other legal proceeding as may be permitted by law.
[Amended 4-23-1996 by Ord. No. 509]
A. Any person who shall violate any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
not exceeding $1,000 and costs and, in default of payment thereof,
shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
Each day that a violation of this article continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
B. Fines and costs imposed under provisions of this article
shall be enforceable and recoverable in the manner at the time provided
by applicable law.