[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 1]
The purpose of this Part is to establish procedures for the
use and maintenance of holding tanks designed to receive and retain
sewage whether from residential or commercial uses and it is hereby
declared the enactment of this Part is necessary for the protection,
benefit and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the
inhabitants of this Township.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 2]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this Part shall be as follows:
The Sewer Authority of Susquehanna Township.
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include but are not limited
to the following:
Which is a toilet using chemicals that discharge to a holding
tank.
Which is a holding tank where sewage is conveyed to it by
a water-carrying system.
Which is a holding tank designed to receive sewage where
water under pressure is not available.
Any property within the Township 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 sewage
shall or may be discharged.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 3]
The Authority is hereby authorized and empowered to undertake
within the Township the control and methods of holding tank sewage
disposal and the collection and the transportation thereof.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 4]
The Authority is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such
rules and regulations concerning sewage which it may deem necessary
from time to time to effect the purposes herein.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 5]
All such rules and regulations adopted by the Authority shall
be in conformity with the provisions herein, all other ordinances
of the Township, and all applicable laws, and applicable rules and
regulations of administrative agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 6]
The Authority shall have the right and power to fix, alter,
charge and collect rates, assessments and other charges in the area
served by its facilities at reasonable and uniform rates as authorized
by applicable law.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 7]
The collection and transportation of all sewage from any improved
property utilizing a holding tank shall be done solely by or under
the direction and control of the Authority, and the disposal thereof
shall be made only at such site or sites as may be approved by the
Department of Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 8]
The owner of an improved property that utilizes a holding tank
shall:
1.
Maintain the holding tank in conformance with this or any ordinance
of this Township, the provisions of any applicable law, and the rules
and regulations of the Authority and any administrative agency of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
2.
Permit only the Authority or anyone acting under the direction of
the Authority to collect, transport, and dispose of the contents therein.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 209; as amended by Ord.
89-16, 11/21/1989]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $600 and costs, or in default of payment thereof,
shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
Each day that a violation of this Part 1 continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Ord. 72-5, 8/10/1972, § 10]
1.
In addition to other remedies provided in this Part, any violation of § 18-108 above shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the Township or the Authority by either seeking appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of a competent jurisdiction.
2.
Any person who has been convicted of a violation of § 18-108 hereof, in accordance with § 18-109 hereof, shall upon such conviction be given in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, to abate the nuisance within 10 days from the date of the receipt of the notice. If the nuisance is not abated by the owner of the said property within the ten-day period, the continued violation shall be an additional violation of § 18-108 hereof, and may be punished again as a new and separate violation; this same procedure may be continuously followed as additional violations for so long as the nuisance is not abated. In the event the aforesaid notice by certified mail is not accepted or not picked up at the Post Office, upon notice of such refusal to accept or refusal to pick up the said notice, the Susquehanna Township Authority shall cause to be hand delivered a copy of the said letter to the premises in question, and if no person is present to accept delivery, a notice shall be posted on the door of the premises, informing the owner that within 10 days thereafter, the nuisance should be abated and that if the said nuisance is not abated by the owner, a prosecution will follow.
