[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article I, § 1.01]
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part shall be as follows:
Glen Rock Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
The Borough of Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania, a municipality
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through its Council
or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
The extension from the sewer drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
Any property located within this Borough 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 wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used
or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for
manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any
product, commodity or article or from which any process waste, as
distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
Any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a 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.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater
as may be present.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and
industrial wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Borough and owned,
maintained and operated by the Authority.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.01]
The owner of any improved property benefitted, improved and
accommodated by any sewer shall connect such improved property therewith,
in such manner as this Borough and the Authority may require, within
45 days' after notice to such owner from this Borough to make
such connection, for the purpose of discharge of all sanitary sewage
and industrial wastes from such improved property, subject to such
limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise
shall be established by this Borough or the Authority, from time to
time.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.02]
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be required under § 20-102 shall be conducted into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Borough or the Authority, from time to time.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.03]
No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within this Borough any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of § 20-102. No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within this Borough any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of § 20-102, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to this Borough and the Authority.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.04]
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used and maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer or which shall be required under § 20-102 to be connected to a sewer. Every such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of this Borough, shall be cleansed and filled at the expense of the owner of such improved property, under the direction and supervision of this Borough; and any such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned and, if required by this Borough, cleansed and filled, shall constitute a nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.05]
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle
at any time shall be connected with a sewer.
[Ord. 153 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article II, § 2.06]
The notice by this Borough to make a connection to a sewer, referred to in § 20-102, shall consist of a copy of this Part, including any amendments and/or supplements at the time in effect, or a summary of each section thereof, and a written or printed document requiring the connection in accordance with the provisions of this Part and specifying that such connection shall be made within 45 days from the date such notice is given. Such notice may be given at any time after a sewer is in place which can receive and convey sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment and disposal from the particular improved property. Such notice shall be served upon the owner in accordance with law.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article III, § 3.01]
Except as otherwise provided in this section, each improved
property shall be connected separately and independently with a sewer
through a building sewer. Grouping of more than one improved property
on one building sewer shall not be permitted, except under special
circumstances and for good' sanitary reasons or other good cause
shown, but then only after special permission of this Borough and
the Authority, in writing, shall have been secured and subject to
such rules, regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by this
Borough and the Authority.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article III, § 3.02]
All costs and expenses of construction of a building sewer and
all costs and expenses of connection of a building sewer to a sewer
shall be borne by the owner of the improved property to be connected;
and such owner shall indemnify and save harmless this Borough and
the Authority from all loss or damage that may be occasioned, directly
or indirectly, as a result of construction of a building sewer or
of connection of a building sewer to a sewer.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article III, § 3.03]
A building sewer shall be connected to a sewer at the place
designated by the Authority and where the lateral is provided. The
invert of a building sewer at the point of connection shall be at
the same or a higher elevation than the invert of the sewer. A smooth,
neat joint shall be made and the connection of a building sewer to
the lateral shall be made secure and watertight.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article III, § 3.04]
If the owner of any improved property located within this Borough and benefitted, improved and accommodated by any sewer, after 45 days' notice from this Borough, in accordance with § 20-102 shall fail to connect such improved property as required, this Borough may make such connection and may collect from such owner the costs and expenses thereof by a municipal claim, an action in assumpsit or such other legal proceeding as may be permitted by law.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article III, § 3.05]
No person shall uncover, connect with, make any opening into
or use, alter or disturb in any manner any sewer or any part of the
sewer system without first obtaining a permit in writing from the
Authority, and paying to the Authority any tapping fee charged and
imposed by the Authority against the owner of each improved property
who connects such improved property to a sewer.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.01]
Where an improved property, at the time connection to a sewer
is required, shall be served by its own sewage disposal system or
device, the existing house sewer line shall be broken on the structure
side of such sewage disposal system or device and attachment shall
be made, with proper fittings, to continue such house sewer line as
a building sewer.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.02]
No building sewer shall be covered until it has been inspected
and approved by this Borough and the Authority. If any part of a building
sewer is covered before so being inspected and approved, it shall
be uncovered for inspection at the cost and expense of the owner of
the improved property to be connected to a sewer.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.03]
Every building sewer of any improved property shall be maintained
in a sanitary and safe operating condition by the owner of such improved
property.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.04]
Every excavation for a building sewer shall be guarded adequately
with barricades and lights to protect all persons from damage and
injury. Streets, sidewalks and other public property disturbed in
the course of installation of a building sewer shall be restored at
the cost and expense of the owner of the improved property being connected,
in a manner satisfactory to this Borough.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.05]
No person shall fail or refuse, upon receipt of a notice of
this Borough or the Authority, in writing, to remedy any unsatisfactory
condition with respect to a building sewer within 45 days of receipt
of such notice. This Borough or the Authority may refuse to permit
such person to discharge sanitary sewage and industrial wastes into
the sewer system until such unsatisfactory condition shall have been
remedied to the satisfaction of this Borough and the Authority.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article IV, § 4.06]
This Borough reserves the right to adopt, from time to time,
additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and proper
relating to connection with a sewer and the sewer system, which additional
rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate, shall be and shall
be construed as part of this Part.
[Ord. 158 (66-6), 7/20/1966, Article V, § 5.01;
as amended by Ord. 490 (2017-05), 10/18/2017]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon summary conviction thereof for a first offense
and upon summary conviction for each subsequent offense, shall be
sentenced to a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $1,000 plus
costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term
of imprisonment not to exceed 30 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.
[Ord. 158 (66-6); 7/20/1966, Article V, § 5.02]
Fines and costs imposed under provisions of this Part shall
be enforceable, and recoverable in the manner at the time provided
by applicable law.
