Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Subpart 1.B shall be
as follows:
AUTHORITY
Northwestern Lancaster County Authority, a municipality authority
incorporated pursuant to provisions of the Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945, P.L. 382, as amended and supplemented,
of the commonwealth.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors, i.e., the elected officials acting
as the governing body of the Township.
BUILDING SEWER
The sewer extension from the sewage drainage system of any
improved property to the lateral serving such improved property.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use in the operation of a business enterprise for the sale and distribution
of any product, commodity, article or service.
CONNECTION ORDINANCE
Subpart 1.A of this Chapter
18, requiring all owners of improved property located in this Township and whose principal building is within 150 feet from a sewer to connect to such sewer and use the same in such manner as this Township may ordain.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, mobile home, house trailer, apartment
unit, condominium unit, cooperative unit, building or other enclosure
connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and occupied
or intended for occupancy as living quarters by an individual, a single
family or other discrete group of persons, excluding institutional
dormitories.
EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, for educational purposes, including both
public and private schools.
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT or EDU
The unit of measure by which any flat rate user charge shall
be imposed upon each improved property, as determined by resolution
of the Authority, which shall be deemed to constitute the estimated
equivalent amount of domestic sanitary sewage discharged by a dwelling
unit per day. The amount of sewage flow constituting one EDU is based
on the most recent tapping fee calculation and may fluctuate.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property 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 domestic sanitary sewage and/or
nonresidential wastes shall be or may be discharged, which is located
within the sewered area and subject to the Connection Ordinance.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property, used or intended for use, wholly or
in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or
assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved
property from which wastes, in addition to or other than domestic
sanitary sewage, shall or may be discharged.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories and educational establishments, which do not constitute
a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit or an industrial establishment.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer normally
located in the street right-of-way to the building sewer serving an
improved property. If there shall be no improvement on the property,
then "lateral" shall mean that part of the sewer system, extending
from said sewer to the curb box or other point of future connection
to the building sewer, if and when said property is improved.
MULTIPLE-USE IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any improved property upon which there shall exist any combination
of any two or more of the following: a dwelling unit, a commercial
establishment, an industrial establishment, an educational establishment
or an institutional establishment.
NONRESIDENTIAL WASTE
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, waterborne waste or
form of energy discharged or escaping in the course of any industrial,
manufacturing, trade, or commercial process or in the course of development,
recovering or processing of natural resources, but not sanitary sewage.
OWNER
Any person vested with title, legal or equitable, sole or
partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, including municipalities,
municipal authorities, school districts and other units of government.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, at any particular time, acquired, constructed,
operated, and/or owned by the Authority, and to be leased to the Township
for operation and maintenance, under the terms of an agreement of
lease, to be dated as of April 1, 1991, by and between the Authority,
as lessor, and the Township, as lessee, and any supplements and amendments
thereto, for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing
of domestic sanitary sewage and/or nonresidential wastes.
SEWERED AREA
That area of the Township served by the sewer system as determined
and designated, from time to time, by the Township and the Authority.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square, including such streets as are dedicated
to public use, and such streets as are owned by private persons.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Penn, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision of the commonwealth, acting by and through its Board or,
in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
USER CHARGE
The rental or charge imposed by the Township hereunder, as
amended from time to time, against the owner of each improved property,
for the use of the sewer system.