[Adopted 1-7-1997]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
Wyalusing Municipal Authority, a municipal authority organized
and existing under the laws of the commonwealth.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any property within this Township 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 wastewater shall be or may be discharged.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
Any individual, company, association, society, trust, corporation,
municipality, municipality authority of any group or entity.
Property which is benefitted, improved or accommodated by
a sewer system, specifically the Hychko property on Route 6.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transmitting, treating or disposing of sanitary sewage and/or wastewater
situate in or adjacent to this Township; and owned by the Authority.
The Township of Wyalusing, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
The liquid and water-carried, industrial or domestic waste
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted
to enter the sewer system.
A.
The owner of any improved property that is property accessible to
the sewer system may, at his own expense, install sanitary facilities
in such building and connect the same to the sewer system within 90
days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified
in this section.
B.
Any owner of improved property that is not property accessible to
the sewer system who is nevertheless able to arrange for connections
to the sewer system through adjoining properties may be permitted
to make such connection.
No person shall make or shall cause to be made a connection
of any improved property to the sewer system until such person shall
have fulfilled each of the following conditions:
A.
Such person shall have notified the Secretary of the Authority, or
the Secretary's designee, of the desire and intention to connect such
improved property to the sewer system;
B.
Such person shall have given the Secretary of the Authority at least
24 hours' notice of the time when such connection will be made so
that the Authority may supervise and inspect or may cause to be supervised
or inspected the work of connection and necessary testing; and
C.
If applicable, such person shall have furnished satisfactory evidence
to the Secretary of the Authority that any tapping (or connection)
fee that may be charged and imposed by the Authority against the owner
of improved property who connects such improved property to the sewer
system has been paid.
The Authority is hereby authorized to prepare rules and regulations
regarding connections, fees, permits, service charges for, and operation
of the sewer system to be constructed, and regarding the constituents
concentrations and quantities of sanitary sewage and wastewater permitted
to enter the sewer system.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system except upon payment to the Authority of the prescribed connection fee to be set by resolution from time to time by the Authority, and upon permit issued by the Authority pursuant to its rules and regulations regarding connections. Violations of this section shall also be subject to the penalties set forth in § 182-48 of this article.
A.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article shall,
upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment/or a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
Each separate building or dwelling unit in respect of which a violation
occurs shall also be deemed a separate offense. Fines and costs imposed
under the provisions of this article shall be enforceable and recoverable
in the manner at the time provided by applicable law.
If any of the provisions of this article, or the application
of any provision hereof, shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall
not affect or impair the remainder of this article, it being the intention
of the Borough Council that such remainder shall continue in full
force and effect.
It is declared that the enactment of this article is necessary
for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety
and welfare of inhabitants of the Township.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Supervisors, by enactment of this article, hereby adopt
the agreement for sewer service dated March 2, 2004, as an intermunicipal
agreement between the Wyalusing Municipal Authority and the Township
of Wyalusing. Any future developers requiring a sewer extension in
the Township shall enter a similar agreement for sewer service.
