[Adopted 5-2-1991 by Ord.
No. 577 (Ch. 79, Art. IV, of the 1973 Borough Code)]
It is the legislative intent of the Board of Commissioners of
the Borough of Mount Ephraim to establish and delineate responsibility
for maintenance of the sanitary sewer lines within the Borough of
Mount Ephraim, County of Camden and State of New Jersey, to avoid
confusion of responsibility of maintenance of the aforesaid sewer
lines between the private and commercial landowners located within
the Borough and the Borough of Mount Ephraim itself. Accordingly,
the aforesaid responsibility of maintenance shall be delineated as
follows.
Within the time frame as provided by law as to the effective
date of this article, it shall be the responsibility of the individual
private property owner, either commercial or residential, to maintain
the sanitary sewer lines up to a point inclusive of the sewer vent
in the street adjacent to the landowner's property. Accordingly,
the responsibility of maintenance shall begin from the sanitary sewer
line that exits from the structure owned by the landowner up to and
including the sewer vent.
The Borough of Mount Ephraim, for its part, will be responsible
for that section of the sanitary sewer line from a point beyond the
sewer vent up to and including the sewer main as well as any sewer
lines that exist beyond the sewer vent.
In the event that the individual landowner, either commercial
or residential, is required to effect any repairs or changes in the
sewer line, that individual landowner shall also be required to reconstruct
any sidewalk, any curbing or grass areas disturbed by the aforesaid
repairs or maintenance program. For its part, the Borough of Mount
Ephraim shall require itself to restore any street, curb or sidewalk
so disturbed by its maintenance or repair program within the responsibility
as delineated hereinabove.
Any landowner who fails to maintain the aforesaid sewer line as delineated in this article shall be considered in violation of this article, and any violation of this article shall be punishable as provided in the penalty provisions contained in Chapter 305, Penalties.
