Unless the context specifies and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of items and phrases pertaining to this article should
be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a municipal
corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through its Borough
Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure, except such
room, group of rooms, building or enclosure constituting a home, which
is connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used
or intended for use in the operation of a business enterprise for
the sale and distribution of any product, commodity, article or service
or used or intended for use for any social, amusement, religious,
educational, charitable or public purpose and containing plumbing
facilities for kitchen, toilet or washing purposes.
DEP PERMIT
The permit which is required by the Department of Environmental
Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the construction
of a new sanitary sewer line or the extension of an existing sanitary
sewer system.
DWELLING UNIT
A.
A building under one roof and occupied by one family or one
business or industrial establishment; or
B.
A combination of buildings in one enclosure or group and occupied
by one family or one business; or
C.
One side of a double building or house having a solid vertical
partition wall; or
D.
Each room or group of rooms in a building occupied or intended
for occupancy as a separate business or as separate living quarters
by a family or other group of persons living together or by a person
living alone; or
E.
Each apartment, office or suite of offices in a building or
house having several such apartments, offices or suites of offices
and using in common one or more hallways and one or more means of
entrance; or
F.
Any trailer or mobile home occupied by one family or business.
ENGINEER
The person, firm or corporation named as such by the Borough
of Paxtang.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this Borough upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for
manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any
product, commodity or article, or from which process waste, as distinct
from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment
other than sanitary sewage.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
The improvement of one or two or more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A.
A group of two or more buildings; or
B.
The division or allocation of land or space between or among
two or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for
the purpose of streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building
groups or other features; or
C.
Any other project requiring the approval of the Township or
the Borough pursuant to any act or ordinance.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there shall be no curbline, to the property line;
or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean
that portion of or place in a sewer which is provided for connection
of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The person or persons appointed by the Borough to enforce
the terms of this article.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities as of any particular time for collecting,
plumbing, transportation, treating or disposing of sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes to be owned by the Borough or by others.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constitutes a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
STORM SEWER OR DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater, surface water,
drainage and certain industrial waste discharges, such as cooling
and air-conditioning waters.
STREET
Any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public
way, public square or private sewer easement.
SUBDIVISION
The division or a single lot, tract or parcel of land, or
part thereof, into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, including
changes in street lines or lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of improvement and development.
USER
Any person discharging or causing to be discharged any liquid
to the sewage system.
WATER SYSTEM
The facilities owned by any person or persons and used for
the supply of water to the public in and for the Borough.
The owner of any improved property whose property lines are
within 150 feet of any public sewer line shall be required to connect
thereto in such manner as this Borough may require, within 90 days
after notice to such owner from this Borough to make such connection,
for the purpose of discharge of all sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes from such improved property; subject, however, to such limitations
and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall
be established by this Borough from time to time.
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be required under §
336-9, shall be conducted into a sewer; subject, however, to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Borough from time to time.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank, or similar
receptacle at any time shall be connected with a sewer.
The notice by this Borough to make a connection to a sewer,
referred to in this article, shall consist of a copy of this part
(Ordinance No. 533), including its amendments and/or supplements at
the time in effect, or a summary of each section thereof, and a written
or printed document requiring the connection in accordance with the
provisions of this article and specifying that such connection shall
be made within 90 days from the date such notice is given. Such notice
may be given at any time when a sewer is in place which can receive
and can convey sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment
and disposal from the particular improved property. Such notice shall
be served upon the owner in accordance with law.
If the owner of any improved property benefited, improved or accommodated by a sewer, after 90 days' notice from this Borough requiring the connection of such improved property with a sewer, in accordance with §
336-9, shall fail to connect such improved property as required, this Borough may make such connection and may collect from such owner the costs and expenses thereof by a municipal claim, an action in assumpsit or such other legal proceeding as may be permitted by law.
The owner of each property connected to the sewer system shall
be responsible for all acts of tenants or other occupants of such
improved property insofar as such acts shall be governed by provisions
of this article.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with any provision
or requirement of this part or who constructs, alters or repairs a
lateral or any other integral part of the sanitary sewage system in
violation of an approved plan or directive of the Plumbing Inspector
or of a permit or certificate issued under the provisions of this
part, shall be guilty of a violation of this part, which violation
shall constitute an offense and, upon conviction for every such violation,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs
and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment
for not more than 30 days; provided that, when not otherwise specified,
each seven days of continued violation shall constitute a separate
offense.