[Adopted 6-3-1968 by Ord. No. 6-1968]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Towanda
Borough Sanitation Ordinance."
No person shall install an individual sewage-disposal system
or construct any building in which an individual sewage-disposal system
is to be installed or major alterations are to be made to an existing
system, without first obtaining a permit indicating that the site
and plans and specifications of such system are in compliance with
this article, the provisions of Act No. 537, Act of January 24, 1966,
P.L. 1535, as amended, and the standards and regulations of the Pennsylvania
Department of Health.
Application for the permit shall be submitted in writing to
Towanda Borough on forms by Towanda Borough, and shall be submitted
to the licensing officer as hereinafter described. Said forms may
be those supplied by the Committee on Sanitation for Bradford County.
The Borough Council of Towanda Borough shall, by resolution,
designate a licensing officer, who shall serve at the pleasure of
said Borough Council. The salary of said officer shall be as fixed
by said Borough Council. Said officer may be the nominee of the Committee
on Sanitation for Bradford County with the salary as set by agreement
with said Committee.
The Borough Council of Towanda Borough shall, by resolution,
designate an Inspection Officer, who shall serve at the pleasure of
said Borough Council. The salary of said Officer shall be as fixed
by said Borough Council. The said Officer may be the nominee of the
Committee on Sanitation for Bradford County with the salary as set
by agreement with said Committee.
The Inspection Officer, upon consideration of the application
for permit and sewage-facility plans, shall within seven days after
receiving said permit, issue said permit or deny a permit. Denial
of the permit shall be supported by a statement in writing of the
reasons for such action. In the event that the data submitted by the
applicant is incomplete, the time for acting upon said permit shall
be extended for seven days beyond the date of submission of adequate
supplementary or amendatory data.
No system or structure designed to provide individual sewage
disposal to any realty improvement shall be covered from view until
approval to cover the same has been given by the Inspection Officer.
If 48 hours have elapsed, excepting Sundays and holidays, since the
Inspection Officer received notification of completion of construction,
the applicant may cover said system or structure unless permission
has been refused by the Inspection Officer.
In case any permit is denied or revoked, a hearing shall be
held thereon before the Borough Council of Towanda Borough within
15 days after request therefor is made by the applicant. Within seven
days following the date of such hearing, the applicant shall be notified
in writing of the determination of said hearing.
In the event that the Inspection Officer determines that any
change has occurred in the physical conditions of any land of a realty
improvement which will materially affect the operation of the individual
sewage-disposal system covered by the permit, the permit shall be
revoked and a new permit shall be obtained before construction shall
proceed, provided that no additional charge shall be made if a second
permit is applied for within 30 days after the first permit shall
be issued.
The Inspection Officer shall have the power to make, or cause
to be made, such inspections and tests as may be necessary to carry
out the provisions of this article and shall have the right to enter
upon such lands for such purposes.
[Amended 9-8-1987 by Ord. No. 4-1987]
A.
The license fee is set at $75 for each project lot or facility to
be tested, and a fee of $15 is hereby imposed for the inspection fee
for the percolation completion test for each on-site project, lot
or facility.
B.
The license and inspection fees may be hereafter revised or altered
by a resolution of the Borough Council of the Borough of Towanda.
The Borough Council of Towanda Borough shall have the power
to institute in the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County proceedings
to restrain the violation of this article.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article
or who resists or interferes with any officer, agent or employee,
in accordance with the provisions of this article, in the performance
of his duties, shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding
before any Magisterial District Judge in Bradford County be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than $100 and costs, and not more than $1,000
and costs, or, in default thereof, shall be confined in the county
jail for a period of not more than 30 days.
