[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 1]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged, and includes,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats,
apartments, stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
Property which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of, such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this Township. Such term
includes lateral lines from a street main to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
Dallas Area Municipal Authority or any other agency operating
public sewers for or at the request of the governing body of the Township.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 2]
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the sewer authority
charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice of that fact
to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the
Township, such notice to state that owners of property accessible
to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building are compelled
to make connection therewith pursuant to this Part. A copy of such
notice, together with a copy of this Part and any ordinance then in
effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer rents shall be mailed
to each person known to the sewer authority to own property accessible
to such sewer, but failure to mail such copies or defect in the mailed
copies or defect in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity
of the notice.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 3]
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Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
there is an occupied building shall, at his own expense, install sanitary
facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer
within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the
sewer specified in § 102.
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Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at the time of erection
and at his expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and
connect the same to the public sewer.
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Persons owning properties accessible to a public sewer on which there
are occupied buildings more than 150 feet from such sewer and persons
owning properties not accessible to a public sewer who are nevertheless
able to arrange for connections thereto through intermediate properties
shall be permitted to make such connection.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 4]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property
on which there is a building required to be connected to a public
sewer under the provisions of $103 hereof to construct or use on such
property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device
for the disposal of sanitary sewage. Any such privy, privy vault,
cesspool, septic tank or other device constructed or used in violation
hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance which shall be abated as
provided by law.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 5]
No connection shall be made to any public sewer except upon
payment of the prescribed connection fee and upon permit issued by
the sewer authority pursuant to rules and regulations regarding connections
promulgated by the sewer authority and approved by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township. No person shall make any connections with or opening
into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof
without first obtaining a written permit from the sewer authority.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 6]
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer
by § 103 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and
opportunity, the sewer authority shall report such failure to the
Board of Supervisors of the Township, who may proceed as permitted
by law to enter upon the property, make such connection and collect
the cost thereof by municipal lien or otherwise.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 7]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, wilfully, or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
[Ord. 1970-6, 12/9/1970, § 8; as amended by Ord.
1985-1, 2/13/1985; and by Ord. 97-3, 11/12/1997]
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Any person violating any provision of this Part shall be served by
the sewer authority with written notice stating the nature of the
violation and prescribing a reasonable time limit for the correction
thereof.
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Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any
provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought
before a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
