For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings herein indicated:
BUILDING SEWER
The sewage drainage system from a building constructed on
any improved property to the lateral serving such improved property,
including any grinder pump or pressure sewer or similar apparatus
or facilities installed by the Township or the owner and which are
located on such improved property.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property in the Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1 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
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged
into the sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the sewer system or the Brodhead Creek Regional
Authority Treatment Plant.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the improved property line,
or if no such extension is provided, then "lateral" shall mean that
portion of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of
any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipal authority or other group
or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Typical water-carried household, commercial and toilet wastes,
having the biological and chemical characteristics prescribed by regulation
of Tobyhanna Township, Pocono Township and/or the Brodhead Creek Regional
Authority, which is discharged by an improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All sewer lines and other facilities constructed, owned and/or
operated by Tobyhanna Township to collect and/or transmit sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged by an improved property,
other than a building sewer or a lateral.
TOBYHANNA COLLECTION SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, used for the collection
and transmission of sewage in and from the Tobyhanna Sewer District
No. 1 owned, operated and maintained by the Township of Tobyhanna.
TOBYHANNA SEWER DISTRICT NO. 1
The area within Tobyhanna Township, as defined in §
113-58 of this article and illustrated on the attached Exhibit "A," in which the provisions of this article apply.
The Township of Tobyhanna hereby establishes, adopts and creates
the Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1 for the purpose of providing sewer
collection service to the improved properties located within Tobyhanna
Sewer District No. 1. The Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1 shall encompass
that area of Tobyhanna Township as more specifically identified in
the shaded area on the sewer district area map attached hereto and
incorporated herein as Exhibit "A," at or near the intersection of Interstate 380 and State
Route 940. The provisions of this article shall not apply to areas
that are served by public sewer within the Township of Tobyhanna but
outside of the Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1 defined herein.
The Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1 shall be governed by this Article
VIII and Article
IX of this chapter as well as the Pocono Township and Brodhead Creek Regional Authority regulations referenced in and incorporated by Exhibits "B" and "C." In the event of a conflict between the Tobyhanna Township ordinances in Articles
VIII and
IX of this chapter and the Pocono Township regulations and/or the Brodhead Creek Regional Authority regulations, the more restrictive regulations shall govern within the Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to pay
a fine of no more than $1,000, and in default of payment, to imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this
article continues shall constitute a separate offense. Such a penalty
shall be in addition to any additional liability any person, firm
or corporation has already contractually agreed to with Tobyhanna
Township in relation to such public sewer connection and service within
Tobyhanna Sewer District No. 1.