As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTHORITY
New Freedom Borough Authority as presently or hereafter constituted,
which has been created by the New Freedom Borough Council.
BOROUGH
The Borough of New Freedom, York County, Pennsylvania, a
municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through
its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
HOUSE SEWER
That part of a sewer line extending from the inner face of
the outer walls of a building, vault or area to its connection with
the lateral.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within the Borough upon which there
is erected or operated a structure intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sanitary sewage or industrial wastes shall be or may be
discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business
enterprise for the manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
form which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall
be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid, gaseous or waterborne substance or form
of energy rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovering
or processing of natural resources as distinct from sewage.
LATERAL
Part of the sewer system extending from a public or private
main sewer to curbline or property line.
PERSON
Individuals or natural persons or artificial persons existing
only in contemplation of law, and shall be construed to include associations,
partnerships, limited partnerships, joint-stock companies and corporations.
PREMISES ACCESSIBLE TO THE SEWER SYSTEM
Real estate which adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the sewer
system having an improved property, regardless of the length of the
house sewer or manner in which sewage flows from the occupied building
to the sewer system.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes generated
from any improved property.
SEWAGE
Both sanitary sewage and industrial waste.
SEWER
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting pumping, treating and disposing of sewage, owned by the
Authority, leased to the Borough or contracted for by the Authority
or the Borough.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system
except in compliance with the ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations
of the Borough Council or as may be otherwise required by law.
Any person who shall violate the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction in proceedings commenced by
New Freedom Borough before any Magisterial District Judge, be subject
to a fine of no more than $1,000. Upon judgment against any person
by conviction or by proceedings by summons or default of the fine
imposed and costs, said person may be sentenced to the York County
Jail for a period not exceeding 30 days. If such person violating
the provisions of this article shall be a partnership, then the members
thereof or, if such person is a corporation or association, then the
officers thereof, shall, in default of payment of any fine levied
hereunder, be imprisoned. Each day of continued violation of any provision
of this article shall constitute a separate offense.