The owners of all houses, buildings and properties situated within the Township, and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the Township, (including Chester Avenue, in which a sewer main may be physically within the limits of the Township of Riverside), are hereby required at their expense to connect all sanitary and other plumbing facilities directly with the public sewer, in accordance with Rules and Regulations of the Department prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
The owners of all houses, buildings and properties having approved private sanitary sewer facilities will be required at their expense to connect all available sanitary and other plumbing facilities directly with the public sewer line within six months after completion of a sewer line within any street, alley or right of way abutting such houses, buildings and properties. After such connection has been made, the use of the private sanitary sewer facility shall be discontinued and such private sanitary sewer facility shall be emptied and filled with fresh earth and shall not thereafter be used as a receptacle for sewerage waste of any kind.
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The Department may refuse to connect to any customer's piping system or to supply sewer services to a system if said system has not been designed or installed in accordance with applicable law, and the rules and regulations of the Township, or if any parts of the piping system have not been installed at sufficient depth to prevent freezing.
B. 
The Township shall not be responsible for any inadequacy of sewer service should the customer make alterations, changes or additions to an existing system without notifying the Department in advance of any proposed alterations, changes or additions. In case of defective service, the customer shall not interfere with meters or other property of the Township, but shall immediately notify the Department.
If the owner of any building located within the Township shall fail to make any connection or installation required to be made under the provisions of this chapter within the time herein required, the Township may proceed to make such connection or installation, or cause same to be made, and charge and assess the cost thereof against such property pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40A:26A-1 et seq. and § 1-6 of the Code of Delran Township.
The Township, through the Department or otherwise, shall have a right of access to any customer's premises and to all equipment and property of the Township at reasonable times for the purpose of reading meters, inspecting, repairing or replacing equipment used in connection with the supplying of sewer services, or for the removal of equipment or property. The customer shall obtain for the Township all necessary permission from tenants or others for access to equipment or property. Customers shall not permit access to meters or other Township sewer facilities except by authorized employees of the Township or other authorized state or local inspectors.
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No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any of the Township's sewer facilities without first obtaining a permit from the Department.
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Upon submission of an application for a permit, the applicant shall pay the permit fee set forth in the rules and regulations of the Department.
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Upon issuance of the permit, the applicant shall pay the connection fee established by the rules and regulations of the Department.
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Sewer service connections shall be made upon written application to the Department on forms furnished by the Department and signed by the owner of the property or by a duly authorized agent.
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No application for service will be accepted for installation between December 15 and April 15, unless the property owner agrees to pay the additional cost that may be incurred because of adverse weather conditions during this period.
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All inspection fees for the connection into the sewer system shall be paid by the applicant pursuant to the rate schedule in place at the time of the application.
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Approval of an application for a sewer connection can only be made if it has been determined that sewer facilities owned or approved by the Township exist in front of the applicant's property or in the public right-of-way. The sewer connection shall extend the length of the applicant's property and if it does not so extend it shall be extended at the applicant's expense in accordance with Township specifications, established by the rules and regulations of the Department.
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Each contractor or other person performing work on Township public property for the purpose of installing sanitary sewer connections shall post a bond acceptable to the Township. All work shall be adequately guarded with barricades, lights and other measures for protection to the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, curbs and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Township.