A. 
In this Part 1, the following words shall have the meanings hereby ascribed thereto, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
AUTHORITY
The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Derry.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Derry.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment tank or holding tank, or to the lateral at the curbline or property line, as the case may be.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
COMMUNITY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial wastes serving three or more individual lots.
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
A person or agency appointed by the Borough to perform inspections and issue permits in connection with individual sewage disposal systems and community sewerage systems.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) 
CHEMICAL TOILETA toilet using chemicals that discharge to a holding tank.
(2) 
RETENTION TANKA holding tank to which sewage is conveyed by a water-carrying system.
(3) 
PRIVYA holding tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure is not available.
HOLDING TANK CLEANER
A Municipal Authority or person, including a holding tank owner, who removes the contents of a holding tank for purposes of disposing of the sewage at another site.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
A single system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving one or two lots and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil of the property or into any waters of the commonwealth.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid, gaseous, radioactive, solid or other substance, not sewage, resulting from any manufacturing or industry, or from any establishment, as herein defined, and mine drainage, silt, coal mine solids, rock debris, dirt and clay from coal mines, coal collieries, breakers or other coal-processing operations. "Industrial waste" shall include all such substances, whether or not generally characterized as waste.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or parcel of land used as a building site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate or future, which would not be further subdivided.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTION
Contamination of any waters of the commonwealth such as will create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life, including but not limited to such contamination by alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of such waters, or change in temperature, taste, color or odor thereof, or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, radioactive, solid or other substances into such waters. The Sanitary Water Board shall determine when a discharge constitutes pollution, as herein defined, and shall establish standards whereby and wherefrom it can be determined and ascertained whether any such discharge does or does not constitute pollution as herein defined.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM
The sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated, or maintained by the Authority approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law.[1]
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and noxious or deleterious substances 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 TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWERAGE SERVICES
A community sewerage system using a method of sewage disposal other than renovation in a subsurface absorption area or retention in a holding tank.
STORM SEWER
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
STREET COMMISSIONER
The Street Commissioner of the Borough of Derry, or his authorized representative, deputy or agent.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a single tract or other parcel of land or a part thereof, into three or more lots, and shall also include changes in street lines or lot lines.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
B. 
In this Part 1, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.
Nothing in this Part 1 shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court, or any rights acquired or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any ordinance hereby repealed; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Part 1.
Where any provision of this Part 1 is found to be in conflict with a provision of any other ordinance of the Borough, statute of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or with any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, the provision which establishes the higher standard for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Borough shall prevail.