As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
AUTHORITY
The Muckinipates Authority or the Darby Creek Joint Authority.
BUILDING DRAIN
Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment
or holding tank or to the public sewer main.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such
sewage or industrial wastes serving three or more individual lots.
DEPARTMENT
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
A person or agency appointed to perform inspections and issue
permits in connection with individual sewage systems and community
sewage systems.
HOLDING TANK
Watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage and
is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of the
sewage at another site. Holding tanks include, but are not limited
to, the following:
(b)
RETENTION TANKHolding tank to which sewage is conveyed by a water-carrying system.
(c)
PRIVYHolding tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure is not available.
HOLDING TANK CLEANER
Municipal authority or person, including a holding tank owner,
who removes the contents of a holding tank for purposes of disposing
of the sewage at another site.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future, which would not be further subdivided.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or
imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall
include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated,
or maintained by the Muckinipates Authority or the Darby Creek Joint
Authority approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant
to the Clean Streams Law, Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, No. 394,
35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented,
modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals, and any noxious or deleterious substances 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.
STORM SEWER
Sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
SUBDIVISION
Division of a single tract or other parcel of land or a part
thereof, into two or more lots, and including changes in street lines
or lot lines.