[Adopted 4-10-1939 by Ord. No. 531, approved 4-10-1939]
A. 
No person shall connect with any public sanitary sewer within the Borough of Prospect Park any drainpipe for the purpose of carrying off water drainage from any roof.
B. 
No person shall direct any water drainage from any roof to flow into any public sanitary sewer or into any pipe connected with any public sanitary sewer within the Borough of Prospect Park.
It shall be the duty of the owner and occupant of any building, within the Borough of Prospect Park, from the roof of which rainwater is drained through a drainpipe into any public sanitary sewer, to disconnect the said pipe from the public sanitary sewer and to divert the flow of any such rainwater from such public sanitary sewer within 60 days from the effective date of this article.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 125, Plumbing, Art. IV, Drains, § 125-24, for additional provisions concerning rain conductors.
The provisions of this article shall not be construed to prevent Borough officials, when directed by resolution of the Council, from introducing into any sanitary sewer such water as the Council may deem necessary for proper flushing of any sanitary sewer.
[Amended 4-4-1977 by Ord. No. 948, approved 4-4-1977]
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $300 and costs of such proceedings or, upon default of payment of such fine and costs, by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than 30 days. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.