Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article
shall be as follows:
APPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this municipality upon which there is
erected any structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged
which is connected to a sewer line comprising a part of the sewer
system of the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and/or the City of Lancaster
Sewer Authority.
AUTHORITY
The City of Lancaster Sewer Authority and/or the City of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
AUTHORITY ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the Authority, including
any authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
LATERAL SEWER
That part of the sanitary sewer system extending from sewer
to the curbline or if there shall be no curbline, to the edge of the
street abutting the property affected or, if no such lateral shall
be provided, then "lateral sewer" shall mean that portion of, or place
in, a sanitary sewer which is provided for the connection of any service
line.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the municipality or any
authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and its duly authorized representatives or agents.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property situated in the municipality, which is
connected to a sewer line comprising a part of the sewer system of
the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and/or the City of Lancaster
Sewer Authority.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries
sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste permitted to be discharged
into the sewer system and to which sewer storm, surface or ground
waters may not be intentionally admitted.
SERVICE LINE
That part of the main house drain or sanitary sewage line
extending from a point five feet outside the outer building wall or
foundation wall to its connection with the lateral sewer.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sanitary sewage
system and used or usable for sewage collection or transportation
purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities as of any particular time for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and
industrial wastes, situate or adjacent to this municipality and owned
by the Authority.
STREET
A public way including any highway, street, road, lane, court,
public square, alley or other passageway.
TENANT
Any person in possession of a whole or a part of improved
property who is not an owner.
It is hereby declared 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.