[Ord. 396, 6/14/1995]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
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.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
Water fit for human consumption.
Real property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to any
public or private street, road or way which contains a 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.
