Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure or any portion thereof intended to be used
wholly or in part for the purposes of carrying on a trade, business
or profession or for social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable,
institutional or public uses, and which contains plumbing for kitchen,
toilet or washing facilities.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure intended to be used, wholly or in part, for
the manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning, laundering or
assembly of any product, commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
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.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PRIVATE DWELLING OR LIVING UNIT
A structure or dwelling intended to be occupied as a whole
by one family or an apartment intended to be occupied by one family
or any other one-family living unit.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial
establishments.
SEWER MANAGER
Any person who may, from time to time, be placed in general
charge of the sewer system.
SEWER SYSTEM
The complete sewer system, including the sewage collection
system within the Borough limits, leased to the Borough for operation
under the lease from the Authority dated February 1, 1962, together
with all improvements, extensions and capital additions from time
to time acquired or constructed by the Authority or the Borough.
WATER SUPPLIER
The public agency or private company furnishing water service
to the particular property connected to the sewer system.
There is hereby imposed upon the owner of or the user of water
in or on each property served by the sewer system and having the use
thereof quarterly sewer rents payable as hereinafter provided for
the use, whether direct or indirect, of the sewer system, based on
the schedules of classifications and rates or charges hereinafter
set forth.
The Borough reserves the right to refuse connection to the sewer
system, to disconnect a sewer or to compel pretreatment of industrial
waste by an industrial establishment in order to prevent discharge
into the sewer system of industrial waste deemed to be harmful to
the sewage collection system or sewage treatment plant or to have
a deleterious effect on the sewage treatment or sludge-handling processes.
If use or classification of any property should change within
any quarter, the difference in sewer rental, prorated on a monthly
basis to the nearest calendar month, will be charged or credited,
as the case may be, on the bill for the succeeding quarter. Additional
classifications and additional sewer rentals may be established by
the Borough from time to time.
The Borough 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.
This article and any rules and regulations hereunder shall become
effective at once and shall be applicable to all properties as soon
as they respectively become connected with and have the right to use
the sewer system. The Borough reserves the right to make such changes
from time to time as, in its opinion, may be desirable or beneficial
and to amend this article or its rules and regulations or to change
the rates or charges, in such manner and at such times as in its opinion
may be advisable.