This article shall be known as "The Jackson Township Sewer Connection
Ordinance."
The purpose of this article is to establish procedures for requiring
owners of improved property to connect to a community sanitary sewer system
as hereinafter more fully described, and it is hereby directed that the enactment
of this article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this municipality.
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the
meaning of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Jackson Township Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure to
the lateral or service connection of a sewer.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
That part of a multiple-family dwelling or commercial or industrial
establishment with sewage flows equal to 350 gallons per day.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within Jackson Township and within the area
served by this Authority upon which there is erected a structure or structures
intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human
beings and from which structure or structures sewage and/or industrial or
commercial wastes shall be or may be discharged. Each dwelling unit within
a structure shall be considered as a separate improved property.
INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance 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 sewage, excluding any ground-, surface or stormwater.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to a point at
or in front of the right-of-way line.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any improved property located within the area served by the Authority.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, trust,
corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
SERVICE CONNECTION
That portion of, or place in, a sewer, in those cases where no lateral
is provided, which is provided for connection of any building sewer or privately-owned
sewer mains.
SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved
property, excluding any ground-, surface or stormwater.
SEWER MAIN
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system owned
and maintained by the Sewer Authority used or usable for sewage collection
purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of sewage and industrial or commercial wastes.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, alley or public square.
TOWNSHIP
Jackson Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
The Authority shall have the right to require pretreatment of sewage
or industrial or commercial wastes for the removal of substances including,
but not limited to, heavy metals, toxic or hazardous substances or chemicals,
pesticides, disinfectants, acids, paints, paint thinners, herbicides, gasoline
and other solvents, automobile oil and other nondomestic oils, fat or grease;
provided, however, that the owner of the improved property shall bear all
expense for the required pretreatment.
The notice by the Authority to make a connection to a sewer, referred to in §
99-10A, shall consist of a written or printed document requiring the connection and referring to this article. Notice may be given at any time after a sewer is in place which can receive and convey sewage and, to the extent permitted by the Authority, industrial or commercial wastes for treatment and disposal from the improved property. Such notice shall be served upon the owner either by personal service or by certified mail or by posting upon the property for 30 days.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, 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, for good sanitary reasons
or other good cause shown; but then only after special written permission
of the Authority. Each dwelling unit within a structure shall be connected
to the sanitary sewer system in accordance with this section.
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. The owner shall indemnify
and save harmless the Authority from all loss or damage that may be occasioned,
directly or indirectly, as a result of the construction of a building sewer
or the connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
The owner of any improved property adjoining or adjacent to the sanitary
sewer system, the structure of which is within 150 feet of the sewer system,
shall begin to pay a user fee at such rates as determined by the Authority
as of the date of connection, or within 90 days after notice from the Authority
to such owner to connect to the sewer system, whichever first occurs. The
initial bill to the owner for sewage treatment shall be prorated for the number
of days during the billing period the improved property is connected to the
sewer system.
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at the place designated
by the Authority and where the lateral or service connection is provided.
The invert of a building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the
same or a higher elevation than the invert of the sewer. A smooth, neat joint
shall be made with the use of a flexible coupling and the connection of the
building sewer to the lateral or service connection shall be made secure and
watertight.
Any person who shall violate or permit the violation of any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil proceeding
before a District Magistrate, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$1,000 per day per EDU and court costs, plus reasonable attorney's fees. Each
continuing day of violation of this article shall constitute a separate offense.