As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the sewer
system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage is, or may be, discharged.
PERSON
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWER SYSTEM
Refers to the public sanitary sewer collection system, together
with appurtenant facilities about to be acquired and constructed for
a portion of the Township, and any improvements, additions or extensions
that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Township
or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in the Township accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct or 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 after the expiration of the particular period specified in §
280-2 hereof, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduct, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Township, the storm sewers of the Township or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy,
cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the
sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains any
pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary
sewage in violation of this article, shall be deemed and shall be
declared to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance,
which nuisance the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate
in the manner provided by law.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system except in compliance
with the ordinances and resolutions, as well as such rules and regulations
as may, from time to time, be enacted, adopted, approved or promulgated
by the Township or the Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in §
280-2 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said §
280-2, the Township shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system, and also upon the occupants of the building in question, a copy of this article and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 30 days from the date thereof.
[Amended 1-7-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-01; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The provisions of this article are declared to be for the health,
safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township, and persons violating
any provisions of this article, upon conviction before any Magisterial
District Judge, shall pay a fine not exceeding $1,000, plus costs
of prosecution, and, upon default of payment, may be sentenced to
imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 90 days.
Each ninety-day period during which such violation of such provisions
shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate offense. Each occupied
building, as hereinbefore defined, whether or not the owners thereof
shall be permitted to connect two or more occupied buildings or units
by a single common connection to a lateral of the sewer system or
shall be required to make separate connections for each occupied building
or unit, shall constitute a separate and distinct unit under the provisions
of this article, and the persons owning occupied buildings consisting
of multiple units contained in the same structure who violate any
of the provisions of this article shall be subject to the aforesaid
fine for each and every one of such occupied buildings or units which
are in violation of the provisions of this article.