[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § I]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this Part shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Northwestern Chester County Municipal Authority.
AUTHORITY ENGINEER
An engineer employed by the Authority or an authorized member of his staff.
LATERAL SEWER OR SERVICE CONNECTION
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the curb line or, if there shall be no curb line, to the edge of the street abutting the property affected or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral sewer" or "service connection" shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sanitary sewer which is provided for the connection of any service line.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a water course, ditch, pond, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment unit, store, shop, office, business, commercial or industrial unit, or family unit contained within any structure, erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged, located in the Township.
OWNER
Any person vested with the ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property situate in the Township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or group.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries sanitary sewage and/or treated industrial waste permitted to be discharged into the sewer system.
SERVICE LINE OR HOUSE CONNECTION
That part of the main house drain or sewer line extending from a point five feet outside the outer building wall or foundation wall to its connection with the lateral sewer.
SEWER SYSTEM
Sewer mains, lateral sewers from a sewer main to service line or house connection, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations, sewer force mains, and all appurtenant facilities operated by the Township in furnishing sewage service.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Honey Brook, Chester, County, Pennsylvania.
TOWNSHIP ENGINEER
An engineer employed by the Township or an authorized member of his staff.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § II; as amended by Ord. 122-2006, 12/15/2006]
1. 
It shall be unlawful for any owner of property who is required to connect to the sewer system pursuant to Subsection 2 below, to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle intended or used for the disposal of sewage within the Township, or, unless such discharge is pursuant to a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, to discharge or permit the discharge of any sanitary sewage or industrial waste into any natural outlet in the Township.
2. 
Each owner of any occupied building situate on property abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there has been constructed a sanitary sewer and where any part of such building is within 150 feet of said sewer and is accessible thereto, shall at his own expense install suitable sanitary facilities therein and connect such facilities directly with such sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part within 60 days after the date of official notice to do so, given in the manner provided by law. In the event any such owner shall refuse or neglect to so connect within said sixty-day period, he shall be deemed to be in violation of this Part, and the proper officers of the Township, or their agents, may enter upon such property and construct such connection or cause the proper officers or agents of the Authority to enter upon such property and construct such connection. In such case, the Township officers shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send or cause the Authority to send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such connection to such owner, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by such owner to pay said bill, within 30 days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Township officers to file or cause the Authority to file municipal liens. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, no owner of an occupied building shall be required to connect such building to a sanitary sewer if the Board of the Authority determines that connecting such building would result in an overloading of sewage treatment facilities.
3. 
No privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be connected with the sewer system at any time. Each such privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be abandoned upon the making of connection to the sewer system and, at the request of the Township officers or the Authority officers, as agents for the Township, shall be cleaned and filled under its direction and supervision; and any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by the Township officers or the Authority officers, as agents, cleaned and filled, shall constitute a nuisance and such nuisance shall be abated as provided by law at the expense of the owner of such property.
4. 
There is hereby reserved to the Township the right to refuse to any person the privilege of connecting any occupied building to the sewer system, or to compel discontinuance of the use of any sewer by any person, or to compel the pretreatment of industrial wastes, in order to prevent discharge into the sewer system of wastes which may be deemed by the Authority, the Authority Engineer, the Township or the Township Engineer, to be harmful to the sewer system or to have a deleterious effect on sewage treatment processes or to be injurious to personnel operating the sewer system.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § III]
1. 
No person shall uncover, connect with, make any opening into or use, alter or disturb in any manner any sewer or the sewer system without first making application for and obtaining a permit, in writing, from the Authority, as agent for the Township.
2. 
Application to the Authority for a permit required under this section shall be made by the owner of the property to be served, in such form as may be prescribed by the Authority. The application shall be accompanied by the required connection charge, and tapping fee, if any, imposed by the Authority.
3. 
No person other than the Township, Authority, or their agents, shall make or cause to be made the connection of any property with a lateral sewer until such person shall have fulfilled each of the following conditions:
A. 
Such person shall have notified the Township of the desire and intention to connect to a lateral sewer.
B. 
Such person shall apply for and obtain a permit as required by this Part.
C. 
Such person shall have given the Township at least 24 hours' notice of the time when such service line is to be connected and such connection made so that the Township may inspect the service line, the work of connection and perform necessary testing.
4. 
Payment of the above-mentioned connection charge shall entitle the applicant to have one lateral sewer installed to the curb line of his property, or if there is no curbline to the edge of the street abutting his property, at the expense of the Authority, including repairing. All costs of constructing a longer lateral sewer, and all costs and expenses in connecting such lateral sewer to a service line shall be borne by the owner of the property to be connected; and such owner shall indemnify and save harmless the Township and the Authority from all loss or damage that may be occasioned, directly or indirectly, as a result of the construction which the owner is required to perform.
5. 
Whenever the surface of any public street, sidewalk or cartway is disturbed by the construction of a service line, it shall be the responsibility of the applicant for a connection to obtain street opening permits from the Township or highway occupancy permits from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Unless otherwise required, all surfacing materials must be restored in kind, thickness and construction to the satisfaction of the Township and of the Department of Transportation, as the case may be.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § IV]
The Township Engineer, the Authority Engineer and other duly authorized representatives or employees of the Township or the Authority bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted, at all reasonable times, to enter upon any premises connected or about to be connected or required to be connected to the sewer system for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Part.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § V]
No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently damage, destroy, deface, block or otherwise tamper with any sewer or any other structure or equipment which is part of the sewer system, or discharge any substance into the sewer system contrary to or in violation of the resolution of the Authority imposing sewer rates which, inter alia, prohibits discharge of wastes into the sewer system and provides for rules and regulations.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § VI; as amended by Ord. 122-2006, 12/15/2006]
1. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part other than §§ 18-404 and 18-405 shall be served by the Township or the Authority, as its agent, with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. (The notice provided in § 18-402, Subsection 2, above being deemed to be notice of a violation for this purpose in respect of violations of such section.) The offender shall within the period of time (if any, otherwise forthwith) stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
2. 
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit fixed as provided for in Subsection 1, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. A new and separate violation shall be deemed to have been committed for each day any violation continues beyond such time limit.
3. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of §§ 18-404 and 18-405, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
4. 
All fines and penalties imposed for violation of any provision of this Part shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Township for the use of the Township. Default in payment of the fine and costs shall make the defendant liable to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
5. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Part, in addition to becoming liable for a fine and penalty, shall become liable to the Township for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the Township by reason of such violation.
[Ord. 24, 2/24/1997, § VII]
The Township hereby grants to the Authority all easements rights of way and other rights necessary or desirable on, over and under the streets of the Township for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining the sewer system.