Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this article shall be as
follows:
AUTHORITY
Silver Spring Township Authority, a municipality authority
of the commonwealth.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business enterprise
for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
any product, commodity or article.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources.
NONRESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories and industrial establishments, which do not or does not
constitute a residential establishment.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any residential establishment, nonresidential establishment
or industrial establishment which shall be connected, directly or
indirectly, to the sewer system.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone, excluding institutional dormitories.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
and used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting and disposing of wastewater to be acquired or
to be constructed and to be owned and operated by the Township or
to be owned by the Authority and to be leased to the Township for
maintenance, operation and use, as the case may be.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Silver Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, its authorized representative.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
Facilities for transportation of sewage and waste to any
treatment plant and through which sewage and wastes from the sewer
system are transported.
TREATMENT PLANT
With respect to any portion of the sewer system, the sewage
treatment plant and related facilities, including sewage transportation
facilities, owned by the Township, the Authority or any other person,
to which wastewater is discharged from such portion of the sewer system
for ultimate treatment and disposal.
WASTEWATER
Normal water-carried domestic wastes and/or suitable industrial
wastes discharged into the sewer system.
WATER SUPPLIER
Any person, including but not limited to the Authority or
the Township, rendering water service to the public in the Township.
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed upon and shall be collected
from the owner of each residential establishment, nonresidential establishment
and industrial establishment, which shall be connected with the sewer
system, for use of the sewer system and for services rendered in connection
therewith, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, and shall
be payable in the amounts, at the times and in the manner as provided
in this article.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this article shall be a
lien upon the property connected to and served by the sewer system,
and any such sewer rentals or charges which are not paid in accordance
with this article, at the discretion of this Township, shall be filed
as a lien against the property so connected to and served by the sewer
system, which lien shall be filed in the appropriate office of the
County of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, as provided by law, and shall
be collected in the manner provided by law for the filing and collecting
of municipal claims.
The Township, or its duly authorized representatives, shall
have the right of access, at all reasonable times, to any part of
any and all properties served by the sewer system as shall be required
for purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and
testing and for performance of other functions relating to service
rendered by the Township through the sewer system.
It is declared that enactment of this article is necessary for
the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety and
welfare of inhabitants of the Township.