[Adopted 2-21-1995 by Ord. No. 95-3 (Ch. 18, Part 1, of the 1995 Code
of Ordinances)]
The purpose of this article is to establish procedures for the
use and maintenance of existing and new privies designed to receive
and retain sewage whether from residential or commercial uses and
it is hereby declared that the enactment of this article is necessary
for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety
and welfare of the inhabitants of this Township.
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
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 the sewage at another site.
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.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the Township.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and 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.
Warrington Township, Buck County, Pennsylvania.
The Supervisors shall undertake within the Township the control
and methods of holding tank use, sewage disposal and sewage collection
and transportation thereof.
The Supervisors shall adopt such rules and regulations concerning
sewage which it may deem necessary from time to time to effect the
purposes herein.
All such rules and regulations adopted by the Township shall
be in conformity with the provisions herein, all other ordinances
of the Township, and all applicable laws, and applicable rules and
regulations of administrative agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Township shall have the right and power to fix, alter, charge
and collect rates, assessments and other charges in the area served
by its facilities at reasonable and uniform rates as authorized by
applicable law.
A.
The collection and transportation of all sewage from any improved
property utilizing a holding tank shall be done under the direction
and control of the Township, or its agent, and the disposal thereof
shall be made only at such site or sites as may be approved by the
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
The Township will receive, review and retain pumping receipts from
permitted holding tanks.
C.
The Township will retain annual inspection reports for each permitted
tank.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The owner of an improved property that utilizes a holding tank
shall:
A.
Maintain the holding tank in conformance with this article or any
ordinance of this Township, the provisions of any applicable law,
and the rules and regulations of the agency and any administrative
agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B.
Permit the Township or its agent to inspect holding tanks on an annual
basis.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
C.
Permit only such person, persons, company or other entity licensed
by the Township to collect, transport and/or dispose of the contents
therein.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
D.
Upon request,
submit to the Township pumping and disposal records and/or receipts
for the disposal of the contents therein.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
[Amended 2-10-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article, 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 article continues
or each section of this article which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.
In addition to any other remedies provided in this article, any violation of § 257-22 above shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the Township, or its designated agent, by either seeking mitigation of the nuisance or appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction.
