If any owner of improved property within the Borough who is required to connect his property with the sewer system by §
327-1 shall fail to connect therewith within said forty-five-day period, the Borough may make such connection and collect the cost thereof from such owner by a municipal claim or in an action in assumpsit.
It shall be unlawful for any property owner connected with the
sewer system to construct, operate or use within the Borough a privy,
cesspool, vault, septic tank or similar receptacle for sanitary sewage
upon his property, to connect any such privy, cesspool, vault, septic
tank or similar receptacle with the sewer system or to discharge sewage
into any storm sewer or other sewer or outlet other than the sewer
system.
No property owner shall discharge or permit to be discharged
into the sewer system any exhaust steam or any oils, tar, grease,
gas, benzene or other combustible gases or liquids or any garbage
(unless pretreated in an approved manner), offal, insoluble solids
or other dangerous or harmful substances which would adversely affect
the functioning of the sewer system or the processes of sewage treatment
or any other substances prohibited under the Authority's rules
and regulations with respect thereto. No property owner shall discharge
or permit to be discharged into the sewer system any roof drainage,
surface water, waste from hydrants or groundwater from underground
drainage fields or make any other use of the sewer system which violates
any of the Authority's rules and regulations.
[Amended 5-10-1977 by Ord. No. 178-A; 12-18-2001 by Ord. No. 326]
A. If any owner of property within the Borough shall have failed to connect his property with the sewer system as required by §
327-1 and the rules and regulations referred to therein within said forty-five-day period, such failure shall be and hereby is declared to be a violation of this article and such owner shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to a fine not to exceed $1,000, plus costs for each 90 days or fraction thereof that such violation shall persist.
B. If any owner of property within the Borough shall violate §
327-3 or
327-4 of this article or any rule or regulation referred to in §
327-4, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $1,000 for each 30 days or fraction thereof such violation shall persist, plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
Notices to property under §
327-2 of this article may be given either by personal service or by registered mail, sent to the last known address of such owner.