[Adopted 3-4-1965 by Ord. No. 65-3[1]]
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Editor's Note: This legislation was included as Ch. XIX, Part 1, of the 1973 compilation.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following words and terms used in this article shall have the following meanings:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Youngwood, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH COUNCIL
The Council of the Borough of Youngwood, as now or hereafter constituted, and its duly authorized agent or representative.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer designed to receive both sewage and stormwater runoff which has been approved by the Borough Council for such purpose.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged.
PERSONS or PERSON
Includes natural persons, partnerships, associations and corporations.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Any real estate abutting on or adjoining any street of the borough in which is a combined sewer or a sanitary sewer of the public sanitary sewerage system.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All sanitary sewers, all combined sewers, all sewage treatment works and all other facilities owned or operated by the Borough of Youngwood for the collection, transportation and treatment of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, together with their appurtenances, and any additions, extensions or improvements thereto. It shall also include sewers within the borough limits which serve one or more persons and discharge into the public sanitary sewerage system even though those sewers may not have been constructed by borough funds and are not owned or maintained by the borough. It does not include separate storm sewers or culverts which have been constructed for the sole purpose of carrying storm and surface runoff, the discharge from which is not and does not become tributary to the borough's sewage treatment facilities.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial and commercial establishments, exclusive of stormwater runoff, surface water or groundwater.
SEWAGE
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial and commercial establishments.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 365]
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
That portion of the rainfall which reaches a channel or trench.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 365]
A. 
All persons owning any premises within the borough accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system upon which an occupied building is now erected, or to be erected, shall, after the effective date of this Article, at the time of erection of such building and at their own expense, make connection with the public sanitary sewerage system.
B. 
All persons owning any occupied building within the borough upon premises which become accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system after the effective date of this Article shall, at their own expense, make connection with the public sanitary sewerage system within three months, after notice to do so from the Borough Council or its authorized representative.
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Editor's Note: Former Sec. 11, Sewer connections required; time limit therefor, which immediately preceded this section, was deleted 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 365.
All connections to the public sanitary sewerage system shall be made in accordance with the borough regulations and/or applicable ordinances of the borough.
Upon failure of any person to make connection with the public sanitary sewerage system as required by this Article, the borough may make the same and collect the cost thereof from such person by a municipal claim or in an action of assumpsit in the manner provided by law.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning premises within the borough accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system to erect, construct, use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises for receiving sanitary sewage.
B. 
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle for receiving sanitary sewage on any premises within the borough accessible to the public sanitary sewerage system in violation of this Article shall be deemed and declared to be erecting, constructing, using and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance the borough is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner provided by law.
A. 
Discharge of stormwater runoff to sanitary sewer prohibited. The discharge of stormwater runoff to sanitary sewers is hereby prohibited.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 365]
B. 
Adequate provisions to exclude stormwater runoff required. All persons connecting to the public sewerage system shall provide adequate means for excluding stormwater runoff in the event that the connection is made to a sanitary sewer.
C. 
Certain runoff permitted. The provisions of this article do not prohibit the present or future discharge of stormwater runoff to a combined sewer or directly to natural watercourses within the Borough.
[Amended 10-2-1989 by Ord. No. 365]
Any person who shall violate or fail to conform to any of the provisions of this article, in addition to any other provisions or penalties as set forth herein shall, upon violation thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 and costs of prosecution; and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day's continuance of a violation, after notice thereof by the Borough Council, shall constitute a separate offense, and the Borough shall have the further right where the same is applicable, to remove or close the sewer connection until the provisions of this article are complied with. The expense of such removal or closing and the expense of restoring the sewage service shall be a debt due the Borough and a lien upon the property served and may be filed and collected in the same manner provided by law for filing and collecting of municipal claims.