No person, partnership, corporation or other business entity
shall install an individual or community sewage disposal system or
institute any building or addition to any existing structure in which
an individual or community sewage disposal system is to be installed
without first obtaining a permit indicating that the site, plans and
specifications for such system are in compliance with the provisions
of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act of 1966 and the rules and
regulations adopted pursuant to the Act, by the Department of Health
of Pennsylvania. Except that this article will apply to all lots or
acreage, including, but not excluding lots of a size more than one
acre or lots of a size less than one acre.
The Board of Supervisors shall appoint a Township Enforcement
Officer who shall be empowered to issue permits and make the necessary
inspections to insure compliance of the provisions of this article,
who shall serve for a period of one year or until a successor is appointed.
[Amended 4-5-1982; 4-1-1991 by Ord. No. 3-1991; 4-1-1996 by Ord. No. 2-1996]
The fee for issuing the above mentioned permit shall be as follows:
A. Any or all of the related fees may be increased, decreased, modified,
supplemented or deleted by resolution of the Upper Burrell Township
Board of Supervisors as said Board may, from time to time, so resolve.
The Township Enforcement Officer shall conduct the necessary
percolation tests. However, it shall be the responsibility of the
applicant to prepare the proposed site for the percolation tests and
to provide the materials necessary to said tests.
Any person, partnership, corporation or other entity who shall
hereafter install an individual or community sewage disposal system
without first obtaining a sewage disposal permit shall, upon conviction
in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge
under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a
summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than
$1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof,
the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues
or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and
each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute
a separate offense.