[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:
AUTHORITY
Glen Rock Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
BOROUGH
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewer drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
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.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
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.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment, other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
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.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged from any improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
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. 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, § 4.04]
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.