[Adopted 7-12-1990 by Ord. No. 57]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms and phrases used in this
chapter shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Middle Smithfield Township Municipal Authority, a municipality
authority incorporated pursuant to provisions of the Municipality
Authorities Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945, P.L. 382, as amended
and supplemented, of the commonwealth.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this township 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 improved property located within this township and used
or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing,
cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article,
or any other improved property located within this township from which
wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property line,
or if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean
that portion of or place in a sewer which is provided for connection
of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe 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,
pumping, transmitting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, situate in or adjacent to this township and owned
by the Authority, and to be leased to this township for maintenance,
operation and use.
STREET
Any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley or public
way or public square.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Middle Smithfield, Monroe County, Pennsylvania,
a township of the second class of the commonwealth, acting by and
through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting
by and through its authorized representatives.
It is declared that enactment of this chapter
is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this township.
[Adopted 10-8-2009 by Ord. No. 169]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used herein shall be as follows:
CONNECTION PERMIT
A written certificate or document issued by the Authority
evidencing the right to physically connect the sewage lateral from
a building or dwelling to the central sewer system for a specified
structure or lot or parcel of land.
OWNER(S)
Any person or persons or entity who or which hold legal or
equitable title to a lot or parcel of land within the service area
of the Authority.
An equivalent dwelling unit ("EDU") shall be equal to a sewage
discharge use of 200 gallons per day for all purposes, or as may be
later changed by resolution adopted by the Authority.