[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 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 adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more that 150 feet from 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 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.
Any sewer committee or department of the Borough or any other
agency operating public sewers for or at the request of the Borough
Council of the Borough.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 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 shall not affect the validity of the
notice.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 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 § 18-202.
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 accessible to a public sewer on which there are
occupied buildings more than 150 feet from such sewer and persons
owning properties not accessible to a public sewer who are nevertheless
able to arrange for connection thereto through intermediate properties
shall be permitted to make such connection.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 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 provision of § 18-203 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage on 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. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 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
of the Borough. No person shall make any connections with or opening
into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance there
or without first obtaining a written permit from the sewer authority.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 6]
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by § 18-203 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the sewer authority shall report such failure to the Borough Council of the Borough, who may proceed as permitted by law to enter upon the property, make such connections and collect the cost there of by Borough lien or otherwise.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 7]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
[Ord. 1967-03, 4/7/1967, § 8; as amended by A.O.]
Any person violating any provision of this ordinance 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 subject to fine in an amount not exceeding $1,000 for each
offense plus costs including reasonable attorney fees, and, in default
of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to
exceed 90 days. Each separate building or dwelling unit in respect
of which a violation occurs and each ninety-day period during which
a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
