[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 1]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged, and includes,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats,
apartments, stores, shops, offices, and business or industrial establishments.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership,
or corporation.
Property which is benefitted, improved or accommodated by
a public sewer.
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of, a system of such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this Borough. Such term
includes lateral lines from a main street sewer to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
The Borough of Dublin or any sewer committee or department
of the Borough or of the Borough Council or any other agency (which
may include the Dublin Borough Authority[1]) operating public sewers for or at the request of the
Borough Council.
[1]
Editor’s Note: The Dublin Borough Authority was dissolved
and terminated by Ord. No. 321, 2-11-2019. This ordinance also provided
that all assets of all projects of the Authority be transferred to
the Borough of Dublin.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 2]
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the sewer authority
charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice of that fact
to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the
Borough, such notice to state that owners of property accessible to
such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building are compelled
to make connection therewith pursuant to this Part. A copy of such
notice, together with a copy of this Part and any ordinance then in
effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer rents shall be mailed
to each person known to the sewer authority to own property accessible
to such sewer, but failure to mail such copies or defect in the mailed
copies or defect in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity
of the notice.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 3]
1.Â
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which there is an occupied building shall, at his own expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified in § 18-102.
2.Â
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at the time of erection
and at his expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and
connect the same to the public sewer.
3.Â
Persons owning properties not accessible to a public sewer who are
nevertheless able to arrange for connections thereto through intermediate
properties shall be permitted to make such connection.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 4]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to a public sewer under the provisions of § 18-103 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage and any such prohibited devices shall be cleaned and filled in with clean bank-run gravel or dirt within 30 days following the date on which the aforesaid connection is required to be made. Any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other device constructed or used in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance which shall be abated as provided by law.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 5]
No connection shall be made to any public sewer except upon
payment of the prescribed connection fee and upon permit issued by
the sewer authority pursuant to rules and regulations regarding connections
promulgated by the sewer authority and approved by the Borough Council.
No person shall make any connection with or opening into, use, alter,
or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first
obtaining a written permit from the sewer authority.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 6]
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by § 18-103 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the sewer authority shall report such failure to the Borough Council, who may proceed as permitted by law to enter upon the property, make such connection, and collect the cost thereof by municipal lien or otherwise.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 7; as amended by Ord. 256,
5/24/2004]
Any person violating any provision of this Part shall be served
by the sewer authority with written notice stating the nature of the
violation and prescribing a reasonable time limit for the correction
thereof. Any person continuing such a violation beyond such time limit
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 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 71, 3/8/1966, § 8]
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no occupied building
on any property accessible to a public sewer shall be required to
be connected to a public sewer if the distance between such part of
such occupied building as is nearest to the public sewer in question
and such public sewer shall exceed 200 feet, unless the Borough Council
shall first find that the connection of the specific occupied building
is necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants
of the Borough.
