Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, or
the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any structure or any portion thereof intended to be used
wholly or in part for the purposes of carrying on a trade, business
or profession or for social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable
or public uses, and which contains plumbing for kitchens, toilet or
washing facilities. Commercial establishment includes all occupied
structures which are not dwelling units or industrial establishments.
COUNCIL
The governing body of the Borough.
CUSTOMER
The owner of a property connected to or able to be connect
to the sewer system; any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable,
sole or partial, of any such property. No person other than the owner
of a property may be a customer of the sewer system.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, mobile home, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located within this Borough and used
or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing,
cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article,
or any other improved property located within this Borough, from which
wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The liquid, gaseous or solid waste from industrial processes
as distinct from domestic sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a public main
or street sewer to curbline or property line if there is no curb,
and where the main or street sewer line is laid under a sidewalk,
the word "lateral" shall mean and refer to the Y connection from the
main or street sewer line.
NONRESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT
An improved property other than a dwelling unit. Nonresidential
establishments shall include but not be limited to all improved properties
used as commercial establishments, industrial establishments, or for
institutional purposes.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity, and the members of such partnership or association
and the officers of such corporation.
PROPERTY
Any property 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 wastewater shall be or may be
discharged. A "property" may include one or more dwelling units and/or
nonresidential establishments, each of which shall be subject to all
provisions of this article and each of which shall be assessed rates
and changes imposed by this article.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Any property containing only one or more dwelling units.
Any property which contains both a dwelling unit and a nonresidential
establishment shall be considered a nonresidential establishment.
SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWER SYSTEM
The sanitary sewer collection system and conveyance system
together with appurtenant facilities constructed in and for the Borough
and the capacity acquired by the Borough in any wastewater treatment
plant and any improvements, additions or extensions that hereafter
may be made thereto by the Borough or to any part or parts of any
or all thereof.
WATER COMPANY
The Pennsylvania American Water Company or any successor
thereto providing public water service within the Borough.
There is hereby imposed upon each property located within the
Borough limits, served by the sewer system and having the use thereof,
a quarterly sewer rent or charge payable as hereinafter provided for
the use of, whether direct or indirect, or the ability to use the
sewer system based on the rates hereinafter set forth.
The rentals and charges established in this article shall commence
on the date the particular connection is made to the sewer system.
All bills shall be rendered and payable quarterly or any other periodical
billing as provided by resolution of Council. The owners of properties
connecting during the first calendar half of any such quarterly period
shall be billed retroactively to the first day of such quarter. The
owners of properties connecting during the second calendar half of
any such quarterly period shall be billed from the first day of the
next following quarterly period. All bills for sewer rates and other
charges shall be rendered on or before the due date noted on the quarterly
invoice.
A. The date of payment shall be the date the payment is received at
the Borough office.
[Amended 3-12-2020 by Ord. No. 803]
B. The owners of all properties connected to the sewer system must give
the Borough their current address. Failure to receive bills will not
be considered an excuse for nonpayment nor permit an extension of
the period during which bills are payable at face.
C. The sewer rentals herein provided shall be collected and enforced
in the manner provided by law for the assessment and collection of
charges and the enforcement of municipal liens under the laws of the
State of Pennsylvania.
The funds received by the Borough from the collection of the
connection charges and rentals and all penalties thereon as herein
provided for and any fines collected by the Borough in connection
with the sewer system shall be segregated and kept separate and apart
from all other funds of the Borough and shall be used only for the
purpose of defraying the expenses of the Borough in the operation,
maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other
expenses in relation to such sewer system, and for such payments as
the Borough may be required to make under any lease or agreement it
may enter into for and of, or in connection with, said sewer system.
The Borough reserves the right to, and may from time to time,
adopt, revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations as it
deem necessary and proper for the use and operation of the sewer system
and all such rules and regulations shall be and become a part of this
article.