[Adopted by Ord. No. 11-13-56E]
55.18.1.
AUTHORITY — Shall mean the Municipal Authority of the
Municipality of Bethel Park heretofore created by the Council of the
Municipality of Bethel Park by Ordinance No. 35-7-50.3
55.18.2.
SEWAGE — Shall mean a combination of water-carried wastes
from the residences, business and commercial buildings, apartments,
institutions, and industrial establishments.
55.18.3.
SEWER — Shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
55.18.4.
PUBLIC SEWER — Shall mean a sewer in which all owners
of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public
authority.
55.18.5.
SANITARY SEWER — Shall mean a sewer which carries sewage
and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
55.18.6.
PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER — Shall mean a sanitary sewer which
has been constructed and is owned by the Municipal Authority of the
Municipality of Bethel Park, or has been constructed by private parties
and has been accepted by the Municipality of Bethel Park or the Municipal
Authority of the Municipality of Bethel Park as a sanitary sewer.
55.18.7.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT or SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS — Shall
mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
55.18.8.
SEWAGE WORKS — Shall mean all facilities for collecting,
transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
55.18.9.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN — Shall mean a sewer which
carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage
and polluted industrial wastes.
55.18.10.
GARBAGE — Shall mean solid wastes from the preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
55.18.11.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE — Shall mean the wastes from
the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded
to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the
flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle
greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
55.18.12.
BUILDING DRAIN or HOUSE DRAIN — Shall mean that part of
the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the
sewage or discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside
the walls of the building, and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
55.18.13.
BUILDING SEWER or HOUSE SEWER — Shall mean the extension
from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
55.18.14.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS — Shall mean solids that either float
on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids;
and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
55.18.15.
NATURAL OUTLET — Shall mean any outlet directly or indirectly
into a watercourse, pond, gutter, ditch, lake or other body of surface
or ground water.
55.18.16.
WATERCOURSE — Shall mean a channel in which a flow of
water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
55.18.17.
INSPECTOR — Shall mean the person appointed by the Municipality
of Bethel Park to inspect sewage works, including both public and
semipublic sewers, and including also inspection of building sewers
and all other connections between occupied homes and other buildings
and the public sewers.
55.18.18.
PERSON — Shall mean any individual, firm, company, association,
society, corporation or group.
55.18.19.
SHALL — Is mandatory; MAY - Is permissive.
55.19.1.
Within 60 days after the passage of this ordinance, the owner
of all occupied buildings located on premises now accessible to a
public sanitary sewer shall connect, or cause to be connected, the
said building or buildings with the sanitary sewer to which this property
is accessible, in the manner hereinafter provided; and
55.19.2.
Further, hereafter, as public sanitary sewers are laid and provided
in other and additional areas of the Municipality of Bethel Park,
the owners of all occupied buildings accessible to such public sanitary
sewers so laid and provided shall, within 60 days, connect or cause
to be connected, the said occupied buildings with the sanitary sewer
to which the property is accessible, in the manner hereinafter provided.
55.20.1.
When connection has been made with the public sanitary sewer,
the owner or owners of such property shall forthwith abandon any and
all privies, privy vaults, cesspools and septic tanks then existing
on said premises and shall use them no longer. Any and all connection
or connections with the occupied building which has been served shall
be broken or destroyed in such a manner that sanitary sewage can no
longer enter therein.
55.21.1.
From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to erect or construct any privy,
privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or any other type of
55.21.2.
Disposal receptacle or structure in, on or under any premises
accessible to any public sanitary sewer in the Municipality of Bethel
Park.
55.22.1.
From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to connect any privy, privy vault,
cesspool, septic tank or any other type of disposal receptacle or
structure to any public sanitary sewer in the Municipality of Bethel
Park.
55.23.1.
From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful
in areas where public sanitary sewers have been provided and where
the owner or owners of premises have connected with the public sanitary
sewer, or are by this ordinance duty bound so to do, to connect the
occupied building with a privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank
or any other type of disposal receptacle or structure.
55.24.1.
In all cases where a sanitary sewer connection is made from
an occupied building to the sanitary sewer system, either cast-iron
or cylindrical terra-cotta pipe, of the kind and quality hereinafter
specified, or the equivalent thereof, as approved by the Municipality
of Bethel Park, of at least six-inch diameter, shall be used and shall
be given an even grade to the sanitary sewer system. Where the ground
is of sufficient solidity for a
55.24.2.
proper foundation cylindrical terra-cotta pipe of the best quality,
free from flaws, splits or cracks, perfectly burned and well glazed
over the entire inner and outer surfaces, may be used if lain on smooth
bottom with a special groove cut in the bottom of the trench for each
hub, in order to give the pipe a solid bearing on its entire length,
and the soil well rammed on each side of and around the pipe. The
spigot and hub ends of the pipe shall be tightly joined, the joints
to be thoroughly caulked with an approved material, no particle of
the caulking material to remain on the inside of the finished joint;
where cement mortar or a poured asphalt material is used for jointing,
the joint must first be caulked with hemp or oakum; where cast-iron
pipe is used, joints to be caulked with oakum, and leaded. On filled
or made ground, cast-iron pipe or equivalent is to be used; all work
to be done in a workmanlike manner.
55.25.1.
All connections to the sewer lines that are a part of the sewerage
system of the Municipal Authority of the Municipality of Bethel Park
will be made by the Authority. Upon application for a service connection
by a property owner or the developer of a subdivision, the Authority
will insert a connection with a six-inch branch for each house and
provide an adequate bend to bring the service connection at right
angles to the sewer main and extend a six-inch vitrified clay service
connection to the curbline. Beyond this point, the property owner
shall install the service line at his own expense, making connection
to his house sewer. For this connection, a tapping charge of $40,
plus $5 for the permit and inspection fee will be due and payable
with the application for the connection, provided such application
is made prior to the construction of the collector sewer in front
of the property for which the application is made. Should application
be made subsequent to this time, the inspection and permit fee of
$5 shall be made, and the entire cost of the service connection, plus
10% for overhead and other costs shall be made for each service connection.
The amount of such costs shall be estimated at the time the application
is made, and deposit of this amount shall accompany the application.
After the installation is completed, all costs shall be totaled plus
10%, and any excess over the estimated costs shall be returned to
the applicant, and any costs under the estimated amount shall be paid
by the applicant.
55.25.2.
No connection less than six inches in diameter will be permitted
to the main sewer lines, and the construction of the property owners'
connection shall be in accordance with the general requirements of
sewers, except that a grade of not less than 0.6 foot per 100 feet
for six-inch pipe shall be employed. Curblines shall be designated
as being 15 feet from the center of the street. Where sewers are laid
in rights-of-way, the service connection will be laid to the edge
of the right-of-way granted, but not more than 15 feet from the center
line of the sewer. The applicant will also be required to conform
to all other requirements of the Municipality of Bethel Park as regards
changes for sewage transportation, collection, etc. as outlined under
the Municipality of Bethel Park rules and regulations, and as necessary
to establish, to meet the management, overhead, operation and fixed
charges to retire the capital cost of the system.
55.25.3.
House sewers shall be installed by competent, skilled pipe-layers,
in accordance with approved standards, plans and specifications of
the Municipality of Bethel Park.
55.26.1.
No basement seepage or groundwater drainage or any other uncontaminated
source of water shall be discharged to the sanitary sewerage system,
and all applicants desiring connection to the sewerage system shall
certify that no groundwater or seepage drains are or shall be connected
to their system. After connection to the sewer is made, the applicant
shall maintain his house system in such a manner that no such seepage
or drainage enters his sanitary sewage system.
55.27.1.
No downspouts, roof drainage or surface or areaway drainage
shall be connected into the sanitary sewerage system, and before attachment
to the sewer system, the property owner or applicant for service shall
remove such connections and adequately and rightly plug his system
to prevent the entrance of any downspout, roof, surface or areaway
drainage.
55.27.2.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this section of the ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof before
the Mayor or any Justice of the Peace, be fined not less than $50
for each and every day each violation continues, and in default thereof,
any such person be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of not less
than five days nor more than 30 days in the County jail.
55.28.1.
Each user of the system, before connections are made thereto,
shall provide in-house sewering system, just outside the building
wall, a trap with a fresh-air vent on the house side, in accordance
with the standards approved by the Municipality of Bethel Park.
55.29.1.
No cross-connections shall be made between the sanitary sewerage
system and the potable water system whereby vacuums or back siphonage
could permit sanitary wastes to enter the potable water system. No
cross-connections shall be made between the sanitary sewerage system
and storm drains or storm sewers.
55.30.1.
The inspector and other duly authorized employees of the Authority,
bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted
to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation,
sampling, testing and retesting, in accordance with the provisions
of this ordinance.
55.31.1.
No person, firm or corporation shall make or cause to be made
any connection of his property with any public sanitary sewer until
he has fulfilled all of the following conditions:
1.
Prior to the leasing of the sewerage system by the Municipal Authority
of the Municipality of Bethel Park to the Municipality of Bethel Park,
he shall notify the Municipal Authority of the Municipality of Bethel
Park of his desire and intention to make such connection.
2.
Subsequent to the leasing of the sewerage system by the Municipal
Authority of the Municipality of Bethel Park to the Municipality of
Bethel Park, he shall notify the Municipality of Bethel Park of his
desire to make such connection.
3.
He shall notify the Municipal Authority of the Municipality of Bethel
Park of his desire and intention to make such connection.
4.
He shall pay such inspection fees and tapping-in or connection fees
or expenses as are fixed for such services by the Municipality of
Bethel Park and the Municipal Authority.
5.
He shall have applied for and obtained a permit from the Sewer Inspector.
Cost of the permit shall be part of inspection fee. No work shall
commence before the issuance of this permit.
6.
He shall have given the Sewer Inspector at least 24 hours' notice
of the time when such connection shall be made, in order that the
Sewer Inspector can be present to supervise and inspect the work of
connection.
55.31.2.
At the time of inspection, the owner or owners of properties
shall allow and permit the full and complete inspection of all sanitary
and drainage arrangements and facilities in his building and in and
about all parts of his property.
55.31.3.
All work contemplated by this ordinance shall be under the direct
supervision and inspection of the Sewer Inspector appointed by the
said Municipality of Bethel Park, and no building sewer line shall
be covered over or in any manner concealed until after it is inspected
and approved by said Sewer Inspector.
55.32.1.
Hereafter, when sanitary sewering is or has become available
to any property, and the property owner or owners have failed to connect
or cause to be connected his or their property to the sanitary sewer,
the Municipality of Bethel Park may give, or cause to be given, written
notice to the said owner or owners to connect or cause to be connected
his, her or their property to the sanitary sewer, within 60 days from
the date thereof, and failure to comply with the said notice shall
subject the property owner or owners to the penalties of this ordinance.
55.33.1.
If any owner or owners of any occupied building or buildings
shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this ordinance,
the Municipality of Bethel Park may serve a written.
55.33.2.
Notice upon said owner or owners, or upon the tenant or party
in possession of the premises, if said owner or owners cannot be found
on the said premises, requiring said owner or owners to comply in
every respect with the provisions of this ordinance within 60 days
after the service of such notice, and if said owner or owners shall
neglect or refuse to comply with said notice, the Municipality of
Bethel Park may perform or cause to be performed such work and labor,
and furnish or cause to be furnished such material as may be necessary
to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, at the cost and expense
of such owner or owners together with 10% additional thereof, and
all charges and expenses incident thereto, which sum shall be collected
from said owner or owners for the use of the Municipality of Bethel
Park, as debts are by law collectible, or the said Municipality of
Bethel Park may, by its proper officer, file a municipal claim or
lien therefor against said premises as provided by the Act or Acts
of Assembly in such cases made and provided.
55.34.1.
In addition to any penalty hereinabove prescribed, any person,
firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall, upon conviction thereof before the Mayor or any Justice of
the Peace, be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100, and in default
of payment thereof, be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of not
less than five days nor move than 30 days in the County jail.
55.35.1.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or conflicting
with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed
insofar as they affect the provisions of this ordinance.
55.36.1.
The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence or provision
of this ordinance shall not affect the validity of any other part
of this ordinance which can be given effect without such invalid part
or parts.
