[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings stated:
BUILDING
Any structure in which potable water is or may be used and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats, apartments, stores, shops, trailers, offices and business or industrial establishments.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership or corporation.
POTABLE WATER
Water fit for human consumption.
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC WATER FACILITIES
Real property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to any public or private street, road or way which contains a public water facility.
PUBLIC WATER FACILITY
The potable water supply system or any part thereof operated by the Authority.
[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995]
When the public water facilities intended to be constructed by the Authority within the project area are ready to be put into service, the Township shall cause notice of the fact to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township, such notice to state that the owners of property accessible to the public water facilities, and whose principal buildings are within 250 feet thereof, are compelled to make a connection therewith pursuant to this Part. A copy of such notice, together with a copy of this Part and any ordinance or resolution then in effect imposing water connection or tapping fees and water service rates, shall be mailed to the record owner of each such property, but failure to mail such copies, or defects in the mailed copies or the mailing thereof, shall not affect the validity of the notice.
[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995]
1. 
Any owner of a property within the project area and accessible to public water facilities on which there is one or more buildings within 250 feet of such public water facilities shall, at the owner's expense, connect the building or buildings to the public water facilities within 60 days after publication of the notice described in § 26-102 of this Part.
2. 
Any owner of a property within the project area and accessible to public water facilities on which a building is hereafter erected within 250 feet therefrom shall, at the time of erection and at the owner's expense, connect the same to the public water facilities.
3. 
All connections to the public water facilities shall be made in accordance with the rules, regulations and policies of the Authority then in effect.
[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to the public water facilities under the provisions of § 26-103 hereof to construct or use for the benefit of such property any facility for the dispensing of potable water, other than the public water facilities. Any such other source of potable water shall be declared a nuisance which shall be abated as provided by law.
[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995; as amended by Ord. 561, 4/25/2012]
Any person violating any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense. The existence of a violation of this Part or the failure or refusal to correct a violation of this Part shall be deemed a separate offense during each calendar month or part thereof during which the violation continues.