Unless otherwise specifically and clearly indicated otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Borough of West York, York County, Pennsylvania, or as
the context may require, the Borough Council (in connection with matters
requiring action of the Council) or such officers or employees of
the Borough as are authorized to act for the Borough in the premises.
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
The City of York.
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No. 406]
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.
Any property within the sewered area 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 waste shall be or may be discharged.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, 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 which is discharged into the sewer system as
distinct from sanitary sewage.
ABNORMAL INDUSTRIAL WASTEAny industrial waste having a suspended solid content or BOD appreciably in excess of that normally found in sanitary sewage. For the purpose of this chapter any industrial waste containing more than 350 milligrams per liter of suspended solids, or having a BOD in excess of 300 milligrams per liter, shall be considered an abnormal industrial waste regardless of whether or not it contains other substances in concentrations differing appreciably from those normally found in sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, extending 15 feet from
the center line of the street.
Each connection unit other than a residential unit, which
is connected to the sewer system and each separately owned or managed
business or professional office or commercial or industrial establishment
within such connection unit, which in each case, is connected to the
sewer system and from which sanitary sewage or industrial waste is
or may be discharged into the sewer system.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
The BOCA Plumbing Code prepared by the Buildings Official
Conference of America currently in effect and as from time to time
is revised, amended, or superseded.
Each private dwelling; each dwelling unit in a double house
or in a row of connecting houses; each apartment; each room, group
of rooms, house trailer or enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy
as separate living quarters by a family or group of persons living
together or by persons living alone; which accommodation is connected
to the sewer system and from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged
into the sewer system.
The type of toilet and other water-carried waste normally
discharged from residential properties.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
Each residential unit and each nonresidential unit.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, situate
in the Borough sewered area and owned and/or operated by the Borough.
That portion of the Borough in which there shall be constructed
a sewage collection system as from time to time constructed and extended
by the Borough or others, and that part of areas outside the Borough
in which sewers are or shall be constructed which connect to the sewage
treatment plant of York City Sewer Authority located in Manchester
Township.
Includes any street, road, lane, court, alley and public
square.
The Superintendent of the City of York Sewage Treatment Plant.
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No. 406]
The City of York Sewage Treatment Plant.
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No. 406]
