As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AUTHORITY
The Sewer Authority of the Borough of Larksville, a Pennsylvania
municipal authority.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Larksville of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting
by and through its authorized representatives.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the service lateral of a collection sewer.
COLLECTION SEWER
The Authority's collection sanitary sewers located under
highways, roads, streets and rights-of-way with branch service laterals
that collect and convey sanitary sewage or industrial wastes or a
combination of both and into which stormwaters, surface waters and
groundwaters or industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial
or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office
building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments
or units are connected to a common internal sewage system and which
are not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be considered
as one connection unit.
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 whole or in part, in the operation of a business
enterprise for the manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
from which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall
be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, trade or business process or in the course of the development,
recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property.
SERVICE LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a collection
sewer to the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property
line or, if no such service lateral shall be provided, then that portion
of or place in a collection sewer which is provided for connection
of any building sewer.
SEWER
Any pipe, main 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 collection,
transporting, pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Borough, owned by the Authority
and leased to this Borough for operation and use.