All owners of property abutting on or adjoining any street or
alley in which there is a sanitary sewer owned or constructed by the
Slippery Rock Municipal Authority, County of Butler, Pennsylvania,
are hereby required to connect at their own cost, and in accordance
with the regulations and charges of the Authority, the buildings erected
on said property to such sewer for the purpose of discharging all
household waste liquids and other matter customarily directed into
a sanitary sewer system and shall be required to pay the usual and
customary tapping fee and the service charge for such sewage service
to the said Authority. Oils, grease, tar, gasoline or any other liquids
that are not of the usual household nature, including stormwater or
drainage due to rain or snow, shall not be emptied into or permitted
to enter the sanitary sewer system.
Every such property shall be connected separately and independently
with the sewer through the house connection branch directly opposite
the building or nearest in a downstream direction. Grouping of buildings
upon one house sewer shall not be permitted, except under special
circumstances, and for good sanitary reasons, with special permission
granted by the Authority upon recommendation of the Borough Engineer.
The owners of property abutting on or adjoining any street or
alley in which there is a sanitary sewer shall be given 45 days'
notice in writing by the Secretary of the Council of the Borough of
Slippery Rock of the requirement that all buildings erected upon abutting
property shall have sewer connections, and, upon his, her, its or
their failure to make such connections within said period, the Borough
may make the same and collect the costs thereof from the owner by
a municipal claim or in an action of assumpsit as is provided by law.
Any person required to connect with said sanitary sewer system
shall make application for a tapping permit to the Secretary of the
Board of Directors of the Slippery Rock Municipal Authority on forms
provided by the Authority and shall not open any street or alley or
make any connection with the sanitary sewer system until a written
permit has been issued and the fee for the issuing of said permit
has been paid in full to the Slippery Rock Municipal Authority.
No privy vault, cesspool or similar receptacle for human excrement
shall at any time, now or hereafter, be connected with the sanitary
sewer system.
No privy vault, cesspool or similar receptacle for human excrement
shall hereafter be maintained upon any premises from which connection
with the sanitary sewer system shall have been made. Every such privy
vault, cesspool or other receptacle shall, within 30 days after final
enactment of this article in the case of premises now connected with
a sewer, and within 30 days after connection with a sewer, in the
case of premises hereafter so connected, be abandoned, cleaned and
filled under the direction and supervision of the Health Officer of
the County of Butler or State of Pennsylvania. Any such privy vault,
cesspool or other receptacle not abandoned, cleaned and filled as
required by this section shall constitute a nuisance, and such nuisance
may be abated on order of the Board of Health as provided by law,
at the expense of the owner of such property.
[Added 11-28-1958 by Ord. No. 197]
No house trailer or other living quarters constructed on movable
chassis shall be installed for living purposes in the Borough of Slippery
Rock unless the same is connected with the Borough sewerage system.
[Added 3-3-1981 by Res. No. 162; amended 12-7-1983 by Ord. No.
328]
From and after the date of this section, there shall be no on-lot
septic systems installed within the Borough of Slippery Rock, and
any owner, developer of land, or builder shall provide for the extension
of line for any new construction to be run to and tapped into the
sanitary sewer lines of the Borough of Slippery Rock.
[Amended 12-7-1983 by Ord. No. 328]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $300 and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 90 days.