In the interpretation of this section, the present tense includes
the future; the singular number includes the plural and the plural
includes the singular; and the word "person" includes natural person,
property owner, company, trust, individual, partnership, firm, association,
corporation, or entity of any kind. The following terms shall have
the definitions assigned:
BOD
Biochemical oxygen demand.
BOROUGH
The Borough of North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
SEWER RATE CUSTOMER
A person or legal entity discharging wastewater to the sewage
collection system within the Borough.
TOWNSHIP
North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
TSS
Total suspended solids.
Sewer rate customers and the Township shall be subject to termination
of water service by reason of the failure to pay sewer rates as established
by separate ordinance of the Borough in accordance with the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
All ordinances or portions of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions herein are hereby amended to conform to the provisions
of this article. All ordinances and portions of ordinances not inconsistent
with this article, are and shall remain in full force and effect including
but not limited to any provisions providing for the charging and collection
of sewer rates prior to April 1, 2017.
The provisions of this article are severable and if any of its
provisions shall be held invalid, the same shall not affect or impair
the remaining provisions of this article which would have been enacted
had not such invalid provisions been included herein.
This article shall take effect during the fourth-quarter billing
cycle of 2018.