[Adopted 3-22-1960 by Ord. No. 924 (Ch. 18, Part 1, of the
1995 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The City of DuBois, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and
also the group of elected officials acting, from time to time, as
the governing body of the City.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected 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.
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sewage and industrial waste, or either thereof, is or may
be discharged.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Real estate which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to, the
sewer system.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial
establishments.
All facilities operated by the City for the collection and
disposal of sanitary sewage.
A.
All persons owning any occupied building now erected upon property
accessible to the sewer system shall, if not already connected, at
their own expense connect such building with the sewer system within
30 days after the effective date of this article.
B.
All persons owning any property accessible to the sewer system upon
which a building is hereafter erected shall, at the time of the erection
of such building and at their own expense, connect the same with the
sewer system.
C.
All persons owning any occupied building upon property which hereafter
becomes accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense,
connect such building with the sewer system within 30 days after notice
to do so from the City or its representative.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained, any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such property for receiving sewage, after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 340-13 or at any time, to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage except into the sewer system. It shall be unlawful for any person to make a connection to the sewer system from any cesspool, privy, vault, cistern or other depository.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy,
cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the
sewer system in violation of this article shall be deemed and shall
be declared to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance,
which nuisance the City 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 have been or as may, from time to time, be enacted, adopted, approved
or promulgated by the City or may be otherwise provided by law.
No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged into the
sewer system any industrial waste which would impair, impede, prejudicially
affect, interfere with or endanger the sewer system or any part thereof
or the functioning of the processes of sewage treatment. No connection
shall be made to the sewer system for the purpose of discharging industrial
waste therein until the City or its representative shall have first
determined that such industrial waste to be discharged into the sewer
system is or has been rendered by pretreatment or otherwise reasonably
harmless to the sewer system and will not impair, impede, prejudicially
affect, interfere with or endanger the sewer system or any part thereof
or the functioning of the processes of sewage treatment and does not
create any hazard to human or animal life or to the waters receiving
the treated effluent. The representative of the City shall have access
at all reasonable times to all plants and buildings from which industrial
waste is being discharged into the sewer system for the purpose of
determining whether any of the provisions of the ordinances of City
Council and the rules and regulations provided for herein are being
violated. In the event of any violation of this section, the City
shall, in addition to the penalties provided for in this article,
have the right to compel the discontinuance of the discharge of such
industrial waste into the sewer system.
After the expiration of the particular period specified in § 340-13 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 340-13, the City 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.
The City reserves the right to, and may from time to time, adopt,
revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary
and proper for the use and operation of the sewer system, and all
such rules and regulations shall be and become a part of this article.
[Amended 7-24-1995 by Ord. No. 1544; at time of adoption
of Code revisions (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
The provisions of this article are declared to be for the health,
safety and welfare of the citizens of the City. Any person who shall
violate any of the terms, provisions or requirements of this article
or of the rules and regulations which may be adopted by Council, or
who shall refuse, neglect or fail to comply with any notice given
to such person by a duly authorized representative of the City in
conformity with or pursuant to the provisions of this article or of
such rules regulations shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 and costs or, in default of payment
thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed
90 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues shall
constitute a separate offense.
Should any person refuse, neglect or fail to comply with any
of the provisions and requirements of this article or of any rules
and regulations herein provided for, or of any notice given in conformity
with or pursuant to the provisions hereof, then the Plumbing Inspector
or the Fire Marshal of the City is hereby empowered and directed to
supply all labor and material required of said negligent or delinquent
owner, and the cost and expense thereof, together with 10% penalty
thereon, shall be certified to the City Solicitor, who shall enter
the same as a lien against the property in the Court of Common Pleas
of Clearfield County and proceed to collect the same in like manner
as other municipal claims are by law collectible; or an action of
assumpsit may be brought to recover the same in the name of the City
from the said owner or owners.
[Added 5-14-2001 by Ord. No. 1627]
A.
Each industrial user required to install a grease interceptor under
the terms of this article shall be required to have said interceptor
inspected at least every six months and to provide proof to the City
of DuBois that said interceptor has been inspected and that said interceptor
was clean at the time of said inspection.
B.
Proof that the grease interceptor was clean upon inspection shall
be provided to the City of DuBois no later than 15 days after the
date of said inspection.
