Terms defined. As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; or
the Borough Council of the Borough of Lewistown; or in appropriate
cases, the Borough Manager, the Borough Secretary, the Borough Building
Codes, Property Codes and Zoning Code Department, or other persons
designated by the Borough Council to perform duties under this article.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Waste and wastewater from humans or household operations
that is discharged or otherwise enters a treatment works.
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY
The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Lewistown, Mifflin
County, Pennsylvania, a municipal authority which owns and operates
a water system which supplies water service to properties in the Borough.
OWNER
Any person who, whether alone or jointly or severally with
others:
(1)
Actually owns a property (that is, has legal title to, or a
vested or equitable interest in, the property with or without actual
or accompanying possession thereof); or
(2)
Has charge, care or control of a property, as agent, attorney,
manager, operator, receiver, trustee or the like for the owner or
as agent, manager, personal representative, trustee or the like for
the estate of the owner.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, business firm,
charitable organization, profit or nonprofit corporation, government
body, government agency, municipal authority, or other entity.
PROPERTY
The lot or parcel of land, and the buildings and structures
thereon, owned by an owner.
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
A sewer system or part thereof which is specifically designed
and intended to carry sanitary sewage as opposed to stormwater.
SEWAGE
A substance that contains waste products or excrement or
other discharges from the bodies of human beings or animals and noxious
or deleterious substances harmful or inimical to the public health,
or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic
supply or for recreation. The term includes any substance which constitutes
pollution under the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et
seq., as it may be amended and supplemented from time to time, and
the regulations in relation thereto.
SEWER SYSTEM
The existing sewage collection, transportation and treatment
system owned by the Borough, including all related facilities heretofore
acquired and/or constructed or hereafter acquired and/or constructed
by the Borough, together with all appurtenant facilities and properties
which the Borough has acquired or hereafter shall acquire in connection
therewith, including all property, real, personal and mixed, rights,
powers, licenses, easements, rights-of-way, privileges, franchises
and any and all other property or interests in property of whatsoever
nature used or useful in connection with such facilities, and together
with all additions, extensions, alterations and improvements which
may be made or acquired from time to time. As of any particular time,
the "sewer system" means the aforesaid facilities and all property,
real, personal and mixed, rights, powers, licenses, easements, rights-of-way,
privileges, franchises and any and all other property or interests
in property of whatsoever nature used or useful in connection with
such facilities and capital additions (including property in the nature
of capital additions acquired or constructed from funds wholly or
partially contributed or advanced by users, developers and other persons)
acquired, owned, made or constructed by or for the Borough; and the
"sewer system," without intending to limit the generality of the foregoing
as of any particular time, shall include all buildings, machinery,
mains, conduits, sewers, pipes, pipelines, interceptor lines, outfall
lines, trunk lines, service lines, sewer plants and systems, sewage
collection, transportation and treatment systems and facilities, tanks,
shops, pumping stations, ejector stations, force mains, fixtures,
engines, boilers, pumps, meters and other equipment, all personal
property and all franchises, land, rights-of-way, privileges, easements,
licenses, rights and any other interests in real property, all of
the foregoing being owned by the Borough and used or useful in connection
with the collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and/or disposing
of sewage.
WATER SERVICE LINE
The waterline from a water main of the Municipal Authority,
or from any other source of water supply, to the point on or in the
property where the water distribution system of the property begins;
and the waterline on which a water meter is placed to measure the
volume of the water supplied.
WATER USER UNIT
A dwelling unit, commercial unit, institutional unit, manufacturing
unit, agricultural unit, or the like which is supplied with water
from a water service line and which is used or occupied (or is intended
or designed to be used or occupied) separately and distinctly from
any other unit which is supplied with water from the same water service
line.