Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this Part
1 shall be as follows:
ALLOWABLE INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, waterborne waste
or form of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage, which is allowed
to be discharged into the sewer system by the Board of Directors of
the Authority, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or allowable by rules
and regulations of the Authority.
AUTHORITY ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the Authority, including
any authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
DEP
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this municipality upon which there is
erected any 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 property situate in the municipality used wholly or in
part for the manufacture, processing, cleaning, laundering, or assembling
of any product, commodity or article, or any other property situate
in this municipality from which wastes, in addition to or other than
sanitary sewage, are discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy ejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovering or processing
of natural resources but not sanitary sewage.
LATERAL SEWER or SERVICE CONNECTION
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the edge of the street
abutting the property affected, or if no such lateral shall be provided,
then "lateral sewer" or "service connection" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a sanitary sewer which is provided for the connection
of any service line.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
An engineer retained or employed by the municipality or any
authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
MUNICIPALITY
The Borough of East Petersburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and its duly authorized representatives or agents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, pond, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property situated in the municipality.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group.
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM
Any sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to a service
line or house connection, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations,
sewer force mains and all appurtenant facilities owned and operated
by an individual, corporation, homeowners' association or other person
or entity other than a municipal authority or a political subdivision
and used in the furnishing of sewer services.
SANITARY FACILITIES
Toilets, sinks and other plumbing fixtures and related piping
intended to receive and discharge sanitary sewage into a service line.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet waste from
any improved property, excluding, however, the effluent from septic
tanks or cesspools, rain, stormwater and groundwater, as well as roof
or surface water, drainage of percolating or seeping waters, or accumulation
thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries
sanitary sewage and/or allowable industrial waste discharged into
the sewer system and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are
not intentionally admitted.
SERVICE LINE or HOUSE CONNECTION
That part of the main house drain or sewer line extending
from a point five feet outside the outer building wall or foundation
wall to its connection with the lateral sewer.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Devices and/or structures or facilities owned by the Authority
for the treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage and industrial waste.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewage system
and used or usable for sewage collection or transportation purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
Sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to service
line or house connection, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations,
sewer force mains, sewage treatment plants, and all appurtenant facilities
operated by the Authority in furnishing sewage services.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater, surface water,
drainage and certain industrial water discharges, such as cooling
and air-conditioning waters.
STREET
A public way, including any highway, street, road, lane,
court, public square, alley or other passageway.
TENANT
Any person in possession of a whole or a part of improved
property who is not an owner.