As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
COMMUNITY ONLOT SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system of piping, tanks or other facilities for the collection
of sewage from two or more lots, and the treatment and/or disposal of such
sewage into a soil absorption area or retaining tank on one or more of such
lots, or on an adjacent site.
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.
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 Clean Streams
Law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
This article is enacted pursuant to Sections 1522 and 1601 of The Second
Class Township Code.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be subject to the appropriate penalties set forth in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II.