[Adopted 6-2-2015 by Ord.
No. 297-2015]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Bern Township Municipal Authority.
Discharge concentrations exceeding 100 parts per million
(ppm) of grease, oil and fat downstream of an interceptor or trap.
Any food establishment in any building, room or place where
the commercial butchering or processing of food takes place; provided,
however, that this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation
or serving of food in single-family dwellings for the resident family
or its guests.
Those establishments primarily engaged in activities of preparing,
serving, or otherwise making available for consumption by the public
such as restaurant, commercial kitchen, caterer, hotel, school, hospital,
prison, correctional facility, and care institution. These establishments
use one or more of the following preparation activities: cooking by
frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing, rotisserie
cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting, toasting,
or poaching. Also included are infrared heating, searing, barbecuing,
and any other food preparation activity that produces a hot, non-drinkable
food product in or on a receptacle that requires washing.
An interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gallons per minute
(gpm) and which is located underground outside the building.
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gpm or less and which
is located inside the building. Grease traps shall be rated for a
minimum of 22.5 gpm.
A.
As of the effective date of this article, every new building, room
or space or part thereof used as a food preparation facility or food
service establishment shall install or cause to be installed a grease
interceptor or grease trap. Any existing food preparation facility
or food service establishment, upon the application of a zoning permit
or building permit for improvements or additions of any nature to
the existing facility, shall install or cause to be installed a grease
interceptor or grease trap. The type of installation shall be determined
by the total fixture flow-through rate of potential grease laden fixtures
discharging through the building sewage lines as determined by the
Authority. For flow-through rates of 50 gpm or less, an internal grease
trap may be installed in new and existing structures used as food
preparation facilities or food service establishments.
B.
All existing food preparation facilities or food service establishments
shall, at a change of ownership or operation, shall install or cause
to be installed a grease interceptor or grease trap. In all existing
structures, buildings, or parts thereof in which there is a change
of use or occupancy to that of a food preparation facility or food
service establishment, there shall be installed a grease interceptor
or grease trap. The type of installation, grease trap or grease interceptor,
shall be determined by the total fixture flow-through rate as detailed
above. Each grease interceptor or grease trap shall and must be installed
by a plumber licensed by the Township.
A.
Said grease trap or interceptors shall be installed at an appropriate
location along the sewer line between the food preparation facility
or food service establishment and the line's entry into the main
public sewer line. An inspection site tee shall be installed between
the interceptor discharge and connect to the public sewer system.
All installations shall be in accordance with the current applicable
Plumbing Codes.
B.
No solid waste device, such as waste grinders, disposals, potato
peelers, etc., shall discharge through the grease trap or grease interceptor.
Only potential grease laden fixtures may discharge through the trap
or interceptor.
A.
All grease interceptors and grease traps shall be maintained and
kept in good working order at all times. The interceptor or trap shall
limit the amount of grease discharged into the public sewer system
to levels not exceeding those permitted by the Bern Township Municipal
Authority. Oil/grease discharges shall not exceed 100 ppm downstream
of the interceptor or trap.
B.
It shall be the duty and responsibility of any owner, lessee or agent
of any food preparation facility or food service establishment to,
at a minimum of, quarterly inspect the grease interceptor or trap.
A written record shall be kept of all inspections. The inspection
record shall, at a minimum, list the name (inspector and company),
address, phone number of the inspection/disposal company, the method
and frequency of the cleaning schedule and the date of the cleaning/inspection.
Such records shall be presented to the Authority upon request. A more
frequent cleaning/inspection schedule may be ordered to be performed
by the facility when it is determined by the Authority that the facility
is discharging excessive amounts of grease to the public sewer system.
A.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this article shall, upon
summary conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $1,000
for each offense plus the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 30 days. Each day that a violation continues
shall be deemed a separate offense.
B.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this article shall cease
to discharge or infiltrate or permit the discharge or infiltration
of the violating materials and substances upon receiving 30 days'
notice, in writing, to do so. In case the violator neglects or refuses
to do so, in addition to the penalties provided above, the Authority
shall have the right, upon proper notification, to cause water service
to the offending premises terminated.
A.
In the discharge of duties, the Bern Township Zoning Officer/Building
Inspector or an authorized employee of the Bern Township Municipal
Authority shall have the authority to enter, at any reasonable hour,
any Food Preparation facility or food service establishment in the
jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this article.
B.
The Bern Township Zoning Officer/Building Inspector may cooperate
or delegate his or her authority to the appropriate official of the
Bern Township Municipal Authority with regard to enforcement of this
article.
