Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Derry Township Sanitary Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
CONNECTION FEE
That fee that is authorized to be charged by and imposed
by the Derry Township Sanitary Sewer Authority to each owner of improved
property pursuant to authority granted in and pursuant to the provisions
of the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945,
P.L. 382, as amended, supplemented and codified, of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, now known as the Municipality Authorities Act, 53
Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq. (the "Authorities Act"), and as
defined therein.
CUSTOMER FACILITIES FEE
That fee that is authorized to be charged by and imposed
by the Derry Township Sanitary Sewer Authority to each owner of improved
property pursuant to authority granted in and pursuant to the provisions
of the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945,
P.L. 382, as amended, supplemented and codified, of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, now known as the "Municipality Authorities Act,"
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq. (the "Authorities Act"), and
as defined therein.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within the Township upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human being or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/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 the operation of one business enterprise for
manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any
product, commodity or article, or from which process waste, as distinct
from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an 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.
MUNICIPALITY
Township of Derry, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, sometimes
referred to as "Derry Township."
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 or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER PERMIT
That permit issued before any person, firm, association,
corporation or other entity may erect, construct, alter, or extend
any sewage disposal system of any kind within the corporate limits
of Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating or disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, owned or to be owned by the Authority and to be
leased to the Township for operation and use.
TAPPING FEE or TAPPAGE FEE
That fee that is authorized to be charged by and imposed
by the Derry Township Sanitary Sewer Authority to each owner of improved
property pursuant to authority granted in and pursuant to the provisions
of the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945,
P.L. 382, as amended, supplemented and codified, of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, now known as the "Municipality Authorities Act,"
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq. (the "Authorities Act"), and
as defined therein.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Derry, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania
municipality, sometimes referred to as "Derry Township," acting by
and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases, acting
by and through its authorized representatives.
Any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or other
entity violating any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty
of a summary offense and, upon conviction thereof before any Magisterial
District Judge of appropriate jurisdiction, shall be fined not less
$500 nor more than $1,000, and costs of prosecution, and, in default
of payment of said fine and costs may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day's continuation of
a violation of such provisions shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense and violation.
The Township or the Authority, as applicable, by means of a
complaint in equity, may compel any person, firm, association, partnership,
corporation or other entity, violating any of the provisions of this
chapter to comply with the terms of any notice of violation, or the
Township may otherwise seek any such other relief as any court of
competent jurisdiction is empowered to afford.