[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
Unless specifically and clearly indicated otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this part shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Lower Pottsgrove Township Authority, a municipality authority
of the Commonwealth.
BILLING UNIT
A commercial establishment, a dwelling unit, an industrial
establishment or an institutional establishment.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in parts per million (ppm),
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory
procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Sewage as published by the American
Public Health Association.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal corporation of the commonwealth.
BOROUGH AUTHORITY
The Pottstown Borough Authority, a municipality authority
of the Commonwealth.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use in the operation of a business enterprise for the sale and distribution
of any product, commodity, article or service.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone, excluding institutional establishments.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property 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 sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business enterprise
for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
any product, commodity or article, or from which industrial wastes,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any wastes and all liquids discharged from any industrial
establishment other than sanitary sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories, which do not or does not constitute a commercial establishment,
a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
JOINT SEWAGE TREATMENT CONTRACT
The Joint Sewage Treatment Contract between the Authority
and this Township, on the one hand, and the Borough and the Borough
Authority, on the other hand, whereunder, inter alia, the Authority
and the Township have agreed to collect and to deliver to the Borough
and the Pottstown Authority, for treatment and disposition, sanitary
sewage and industrial wastes emanating in this Township, and the Borough
and the Borough Authority have agreed to treat and to dispose of such
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes through the sewage treatment
plant.
MULTIPLE UNIT
Any improved property in which shall be located more than
one billing unit.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property which shall be connected, directly
or indirectly, to the sewer system.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
municipality, corporation or other group or entity.
pH (HYDROGEN ION CONTENT)
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
ppm
Parts per million, by weight.
SANITARY SEWAGE
All normal water-carried household, lavatory, laundry and
toilet wastes discharged from any improved property.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
The facilities for treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes which are operated and maintained in and for
the Borough by the Borough and/or the Borough Authority.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
and used or usable for sewage collection and transportation purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, to be acquired and to be constructed and to be owned by the
Authority and to be leased by this Township for maintenance, operation
and use.
TOTAL SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
or are dissolved in water, sewage or other liquids and which are determined
by laboratory analysis.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its authorized representatives.
[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed by the
Authority upon and shall be collected from the owner of each improved
property which shall be connected with the sewer system for use of
the sewer system, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and
for services rendered in connection therewith, including services
pursuant to the joint sewage treatment contract, which sewer rentals
or charges shall commence and shall be effective as of the date of
connection of each such improved property to the sewer system and
shall be payable in the amounts, at the times and in the manner as
provided in this part.
[Amended 3-23-1995 by Ord. No. 192]
A. The owner of any improved property which shall be
connected to the sewer system for only a part of a quarter-annum billing
period shall pay pro rata sewer rentals or charges for the portion
of the quarter-annum billing period during which such connection was
in effect.
B. Sewer rentals or charges shall be due and payable upon the applicable billing date at the place which shall be specified, from time to time, in the bills to be rendered by or in behalf of this Township as provided for in Subsection
A, and the appropriate amount, computed in accordance with this part, shall constitute the net bill. If sewer rentals or charges are not paid within 15 calendar days after each applicable billing date, an additional sum of 5% shall be added to such net bill, which net bill, plus such additional sum, shall constitute the gross bill. Payment made or mailed and postmarked on or before the last day of such fifteen-calendar-day period shall constitute payment within such period. If the end of such fifteen-calendar-day period shall fall on a legal holiday or on a Sunday, then payment made on or mailed and postmarked on the next succeeding regular business day shall constitute payment within such period.
C. The owner of an improved property which is connected
to the sewer system initially shall provide this Township with and
thereafter shall keep this Township advised of the correct address
of such owner. Failure of any person to receive quarter-annum bills
for sewer rentals or charges shall not be considered an excuse for
nonpayment nor shall such failure result in an extension of the period
of time during which the net bill shall be payable.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this part
shall be a lien upon the improved property connected to and served
by the sewer system, and any such sewer rentals or charges which are
delinquent shall be filed as a lien against the improved property
so connected to and served by the sewer system, which lien shall be
filed in the appropriate office of the County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania,
as provided by law, and shall be collected in the manner provided
by law for the filing and collecting of municipal claims.
This Township shall have the right of access,
at all reasonable times, to any part of any improved property served
by the sewer system as shall be required for purposes of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing and for performance
of other functions relating to service rendered by this Township through
the sewer system.
The owner of any improved property connected
to the sewer system shall be responsible for all acts of tenants or
other occupants of such improved property insofar as such acts shall
be governed by provisions of this part.
The Township reserves the right to adopt, from
time to time, such additional rules and regulations as it shall deem
necessary and proper in connection with use and operation of the sewer
system, which rules and regulations shall be, shall become and shall
be construed as part of this part.
It is declared that enactment of this part is
necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this Township.