[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
By this Part the Board of Supervisors of East Coventry Township
intends to serve the purpose authorized by the rules and regulations
promulgated through Chapter 71 of the Sewage Facilities Act, as revised
and effective July 10, 1989. In furtherance thereof, the provisions
of this Part are deemed expedient and necessary to establish procedures
for the use and maintenance of low flow facility holding tanks for
institutional, commercial or recreational uses, designed to receive,
retain and to facilitate ultimate disposal of sewage at another site.
It is hereby declared by the enactment of this Part the intention
of the Township is to ensure the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the residents of this Township
and for the requiring of control of holding tanks through specific
restrictions upon their uses, more fully set forth herein.
[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
As used herein, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings indicated:
APPLICANT
The owner or person applying for permission to utilize a
holding tank as an alternative sewage disposal system.
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary,
which receives and retains sewage conveyed by a water-carrying system
and is designed and constructed to facilitate the ultimate disposal
of sewage to another site.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township 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 sewage
shall or may be discharged.
LOW FLOW FACILITY
A sewage facility with a sewage flow of 800 gallons per day
or less.
OFFICIAL PLAN
The Official Act 537 Sewage Facilities Plan of East Coventry
Township.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from bodies of human beings or animals
or any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
TOWNSHIP
East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 95, 5/4/1998, § 1]
The Board of Supervisors of the Township is hereby authorized
and empowered to undertake within the Township the control and methods
of holding tank use, sewage disposal and sewage collection and transportation
thereof.