Unless the context is specifically and clearly
indicated otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter
shall be as follows:
AGENT
Any employee of the Township of College empowered by the
Township of College and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to enforce
the provisions of this chapter. The term "agent" shall include, but
shall not be limited to, any certified Sewage Enforcement Officer
duly appointed by the College Township Council.
COUNCIL
The Council of the Township of College, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary,
which receives and retains sewage conveyed by a water-carrying system
and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal
of the sewage at another site. For purposes of this chapter, a holding
tank shall have a capacity of no less than 1,000 gallons.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sewage
shall or may be discharged.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole,
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, corporation or other
group or entity.
PRIVY
A watertight tank designed to receive sewage where water
under pressure and piped wastewater are not available.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products, excrement
or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and
any noxious or deleterious substance 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. Sewage shall include
"gray water," which is further defined as discharge from any shower,
tub, sink, washing machine or other facility used for bathing or washing,
including dishwater and water softener regeneration discharge.
College Township Council, hereinafter referred
to as "Council," is hereby authorized and empowered to regulate, as
specified herein, within the municipality, the methods of holding
tank use, privy use, sewage collection, transportation and disposal
resulting from such use.
Council is hereby authorized and empowered to
adopt such rules and regulations concerning sewage which it may deem
necessary from time to time to affect the purposes herein.
Council shall have the right and power to fix,
alter, charge and collect rates, assessments, and other charges as
may be authorized by applicable law and as may be deemed necessary
to implement the provisions of this chapter.
Any person who violates any provisions of §
165-6,
165-7, or
165-8 shall, upon conviction thereof by summary proceedings, be sentenced to pay a fine specified by Township resolution, which may, from time to time, be amended by Township resolution, together with the costs of prosecution, to be collected as now provided by law. Each violation shall constitute a separate offense.