[Ord. 88, 7/9/2003, § 1]
For the purpose of this Part, unless otherwise expressly used,
the following terms shall have the meanings herein respectively indicated:
AUTHORITY
Bath Borough Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors of Upper Nazareth Township.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewer drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located 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
sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from sewer to the
curbline, or, if there shall be no curbline to the property line,
or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean
that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection
of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property or real estate.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association,
society, trust, corporation or other group or entity of any kind.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property.
SEWAGE SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and
industrial waster, situated in or adjacent to this Borough, owned
and operated by the Authority.
SEWER
Any pipe, main or conduit constituting a part of the sewer
system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
STREET
Any street, alley, public way and public place as now laid
out, whether opened or unopened, dedicated to public use, and all
extensions or additions thereof as may now or hereafter be made.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Upper Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
a municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and
through its Board of Supervisors, or, in appropriate cases, acting
by and through its authorized representatives.
WATER DISTRIBUTION CENTER
All facilities for distribution of water services owned by
Bath Authority as of any particular time for processing distribution
of and providing water owned by Bath Authority or provided to the
Township which is part of the Bath Authority systems.
[Ord. 88, 7/9/2003, § 6; as amended by A.O.]
1. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of
this Part, 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.
2. Fines and costs imposed under provisions of this Part shall be enforceable
and recoverable in the manner at the time provided by applicable law.
[Ord. 88, 7/9/2003, § 8]
It is hereby declared that the enactment of this Part is necessary
for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety
and welfare of the inhabitants of this Township.
[Ord. 88, 7/9/2003, § 10]
The Township shall have the right to supervise all construction,
installation, or excavation work performed on the streets subject
to the provisions of this Part and to make such inspection as it shall
find necessary to insure compliance with governing ordinances.
[Ord. 88, 7/9/2003, § 11]
Authority is subject to all requirements of the Township ordinances,
rules and regulations and specifications of the Township heretofore
or hereafter enacted or established including, but not limited to,
those concerning street work, street excavation, use, removal and
relocation of property within a street and other street work.