This article shall be known as the "City of DuBois Property
and Public Wastewater Treatment System Inspection Ordinance."
This article is adopted under authority of the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act, Act No. 537 of 1966 (1966, Jan. 24, P.L. 1535,
§ 1, effective July 1, 1967), as amended.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
A certificate issued by the City Manager, stating that the
real property has been inspected and found to be in compliance with
this article.
CITY MANAGER
The duly appointed Manager of the City of DuBois or any person
designated by the City Manager or by the City Council in the absence
of a City Manager as the person authorized to take applications or
conduct inspections under this article.
ILLEGAL CONNECTION
Any condition on any real property which permits the introduction
into the public wastewater treatment system of any surface water or
groundwater not otherwise required to be treated as wastewater. This
definition includes, but is not limited to, downspouts, roof drains,
sump pumps and surface water drains or pipes.
PERSON
Any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or
the chief executive officer or general manager of any firm, association,
partnership or corporation.
REAL PROPERTY
Any real property on which is situated any building which
has facilities connected to the public wastewater treatment system
operated by the City of DuBois, or vacant property which has facilities
connected to the public wastewater treatment system operated by the
City of DuBois.
TRANSFER
The conveyance of any interest in real property, with or
without consideration, whether by deed, lease, assignment or any other
form of transaction and whether or not the transfer is to a person
related by blood or marriage to the transferor.
Each application under this article shall be accompanied by
a nonrefundable application fee of $100. A follow-up inspection, if
needed, is included in the $100 fee. Additional inspections will be
charged $100 for each inspection.
The City of DuBois may from time to time conduct inspections
of the lines that comprise the public wastewater treatment system
of the City of DuBois in its continuing effort to properly maintain
and upgrade its system for the benefit of the users of said system.
The public wastewater treatment system of the City of DuBois may be
inspected by the procedures commonly known as smoke testing or dye
testing or by any other method approved within the industry for the
purposes of conducting such inspections upon a public wastewater treatment
system. If such inspections reveal that sections of the sewer lines
are leaking, then the owners of the real property connected to the
offending line will be contacted and given 90 days to correct the
problem through the installation of a new lateral. In such circumstances,
the City will not charge for a sewer tap.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code revisions (see Ch. 1,
General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this article
shall be subject to the summary offense penalties of 35 P.S. § 750.13
and, in addition thereto, may be subject to the civil penalties of
35 P.S. § 750.13a. Each day of noncompliance shall constitute
a separate offense.