GENERAL REFERENCES
Plumbing Code — See Ch. 1424.
[Ord. No. 312,
passed 8-14-1997]
As used in this chapter:
(a)
EXISTING SEWER SYSTEM — Means all mains, pipes, lines, laterals,
manholes, pumping stations or similar facilities established, constructed,
owned or maintained by the Upper Providence Township Sewer Authority
or any other municipal authority which would permit the connection
of the property to its sewer system where said system is in existence
and operational on the date of enactment of this section.
(b)
NEW SEWER EXTENSION — Means all mains, pipes, lines, laterals,
manholes, pumping stations or similar facilities established, constructed,
owned or maintained by the Upper Providence Township Sewer Authority
or any other municipal authority which would permit the connection
of the property to its sewer system where said system or extension
thereof is constructed after the date of enactment of this section.
(c)
ON-LOT SEWAGE SYSTEM — Means all pipes, laterals, cesspools,
leach fields, septic tanks or systems, on-lot stream discharge systems
or other facilities established, constructed or maintained on a parcel
of property located within the Township and not connected to an existing
sewer system owned or operated by the Upper Providence Township Sewer
Authority or any other municipal authority.
(d)
PRINCIPAL BUILDING — Means each dwelling unit of every type
and size, including, without limitation, single detached dwellings,
twins, duplexes, apartments and condominiums; each and every business
unit, including, without limitation, stores, shops, offices, and industrial
units; and each and every other use contained within any structure
or any part thereof intended for periodic or continuous habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings and from which structure sanitary
sewage is or may be discharged.
(e)
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO A SEWER SYSTEM — Means improved property
which adjoins, abuts, is adjacent to or has access to a sewer system
to which the property can connect without acquiring an easement or
right-of-way across private property.
[Ord. No. 102,
passed 8-5-1975]
The purpose of this chapter is to assure that, wherever possible
in the reasonably foreseeable future, sanitary sewers will be installed,
and that developers henceforth shall install capped sewers in the
furtherance of the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens
of the Township.
[Ord. No. 102,
passed 8-5-1975]
In all future cases where a trunk line sanitary sewer line facility
is available or will become available in the reasonably foreseeable
future, the owner of the property shall be required to install sanitary
sewers and connect the same to such trunk line, if alive, irrespective
of the size of the lots included on any owner's plot plan, but
if such trunk line is not alive, such sewers, together with all necessary
laterals extending from the proposed main to the street curbline,
shall be installed and capped. The owner shall also be responsible
for the installation of on-site disposal units in the interim before
the sewer becomes live, provided only that they shall be located in
such places on the lot so as to permit easy and the least expensive
connection to the sewer when the same becomes usable.
[Ord. No. 312,
passed 8-14-1997]
(a)
Existing sewer systems. Each and every owner of property accessible
to, and whose principal building is within 250 feet of, an existing
sewer system, shall cause the property to connect to the said existing
sewer system upon the occurrence of the earliest of the following
events:
(1)
Failure of an on-lot system serving the property to meet the
requirements of the Township and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as certified by the Township Sewage Enforcement Officer, such connection
to be accomplished by the owner of the property within 90 days after
notice to do so has been served upon the owner by either (1) personal
service on an owner or an adult person found in charge on the subject
property or (2) sending the notice by regular first-class mail, postage
pre-paid, and by registered mail, to the property owner at the owner's
last known address;
(2)
Transfer of title to or ownership of the subject property; or
(3)
Within 10 years of the effective date of this section.
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Said connection shall include the construction and installation
of all facilities and equipment deemed necessary and appropriate to
effectuate said connection as determined necessary and appropriate
by the Engineer of the municipal authority owning the existing sewer
system. The owner is required to comply with all rules, regulations
and ordinances of the municipal authority owning the existing sewer
system.
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(b)
New sewer extensions. Each and every owner of property accessible
to, and whose principal building is within 250 feet of, a new sewer
extension, shall connect to the said new sewer extension within 90
days after notice to do so has been served upon the owner by either
(1) personal service on an owner or an adult person found in charge
on the subject property or by (2) sending the notice by regular first-class
mail, postage pre-paid, and by registered mail, to the property owner
at the owner's last known address. Said connection shall include
the construction and installation of all facilities and equipment
deemed necessary and appropriate to effectuate said connection as
determined necessary and appropriate by the Engineer of the municipal
authority owning the existing sewer system. The owner is required
to comply with all rules, regulations and ordinances of the municipal
authority owning the new sewer extension.
[Ord. No. 187,
passed 1-19-1989]
(a)
If an owner violates the duty to connect to a sewer system as set
forth in this chapter, the Township or its agents may enter upon the
owner's property and construct such connection. The Township's
right to enter upon the owner's property shall be enforceable
by a court of competent jurisdiction. The Township shall, upon completion
of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost for the construction
of such connection, and any other costs necessary to complete the
connection, to the owner of the property to which connection has been
made, which bill shall be immediately payable. The bill shall be sent
by regular first class mail, postage prepaid, and by registered mail,
to the owner's last known address.
(b)
If the owner fails to pay the bill within 10 days of the date the
Township mailed the bill, the Township shall have the right to file
a Municipal lien for said costs within six months of the date of completion
of said construction, the same to be subject in all respects to the
general law provided for the filing and recovery of municipal liens.
The Township's exercise of its rights under this section of this
chapter does not affect the Township's right to cite the violating
owner for a summary violation as provided in this chapter.
[Ord. No. 312,
passed 8-14-1997]
Any person violating the duty to connect to a sewer system as
provided in this chapter is guilty of a summary violation and any
person convicted of such violation shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $1,000 per day for each and every day such person
has failed or refused to make such connection, beginning on the sixty-first
day after service of the notice to connect.
