[2002 Code § 13.04.010]
Pursuant to the Sewerage Authorities Law, there is created a
public body corporate and politic under the name and style of "The
Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority."
[2002 Code § 13.04.020]
The Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority is and shall be an
agency and instrumentality of the six Boroughs created by parallel
ordinances duly adopted by their Governing Bodies, and is a sewerage
authority as contemplated and provided for by the Sewerage Authorities
Law and shall have and exercise all of the powers and perform all
of the duties provided for by the Sewerage Authorities Law and any
other statutes heretofore or hereafter enacted and applicable thereto.
[2002 Code § 13.04.030]
The Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority shall consist of
12 members thereof, and two of such members shall be appointed by
the Governing Body of each of the Boroughs, in accordance with the
provisions of the Sewerage Authorities Law.
[2002 Code § 13.08.010]
As used in this section:
AUTHORITY
Shall mean the Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority.
BUILDING
Shall mean any building or structure heretofore or hereafter
constructed and designed or used for dwelling or other use or occupancy
by persons, either temporary or permanent.
CONNECTION DATE
Shall mean the ninetieth day following the service of a notice
from the Borough that a sewer is available to serve as a building
except that in the case of a building completed subsequent to the
availability of a sewer to the premises on which a building is located,
"connection date" shall mean the date of the initial occupancy of
the building or the date of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy
therefor, whichever of the dates shall be the earlier.
FRONTING
A property shall be deemed to front on the system if any
of its boundaries abut a street or easement at a point opposite a
sewer in such a street or easement which is part of a sewer of the
authority or where a building is located upon a street or easement
in which a sewer is now or hereafter constructed.
SEWER
Shall mean any sewer or main designed or used for collection
or disposal of sanitary sewage within the Borough.
[2002 Code § 13.08.020]
Every connection required by this section shall be made in a
manner to discharge into the sewer, all waste and sanitary sewage
originating in the building in accordance with and subject to the
rules and regulations as well as sewer system standards heretofore
or hereafter adopted by the Authority which connection shall be subject
to the right of inspection and approval by the Authority. All connection
charges, service charges and inspection fees imposed by the Authority
under its rules and regulations or rate schedules, nor or hereafter
adopted by the Authority shall be paid promptly when due.
[2002 Code § 13.08.030]
The owner of each building located on property which now or
hereafter fronts upon a sewer or is located upon any street in the
Borough in which a sewer is now or hereafter constructed shall connect
such building and property with the sewer prior to the connection
date for the purpose of delivering sewage from each building into
the sewer. The connection shall be subject to and in conformity with
the rules and regulations and sewer system standards heretofore or
hereafter adopted by the Authority regulating and providing for the
improvement, maintenance and repair of such connections and prescribing
the kind of materials to be used in the original connection and in
improving and repairing the same and the method of doing the same.
Unless a toilet is already installed therein, every owner of such
building shall install at least one toilet therein and connect such
building and every toilet therein with the sewer.
[2002 Code § 13.08.040]
The Authority shall have the right to inspect the connections
as well as the sanitary sewerage facilities which are used in discharging
through such connections into the mains of the Authority, except that
the Authority shall charge no fee for inspections or approval of such
connections beyond the line of the public right-of-way or easement,
in which the main to which such connection is made, is situated.
[2002 Code § 13.08.050]
The Borough Clerk shall mail a notice to connect on a form furnished
by the Authority to every owner of a building and property located
within the area in the Borough in which a sewer shall have been installed
and is ready to receive sewage. The Borough clerk shall mail such
notice to connect as soon as possible following receipt of written
notification from the Authority, describing the area within which
such sewer is available to receive sewage. The Borough Clerk shall
forward a list of the names and addresses of the owners upon whom
the notice to connect has been served to the authority.
[2002 Code § 13.08.060]
If the owner of any property affected by this section shall
neglect, after notice is given to make any such sewer connection or
installation of toilet, the Borough may cause such connection or installation
to be made under its direction and supervision or award one or more
contracts for the making of such improvement, and such sewer connection
or installation charge shall bear interest and be a first and paramount
lien against the respective property so connected with the sewer to
the same extent as assessments for local improvements, and shall be
collected and enforced in the same manner.
[2002 Code § 13.08.070]
No owner, occupant, or tenant of residential, educational, religious,
commercial, or industrial properties shall connect or maintain the
connection or permit to be connected or permit the maintenance of
the connection of any sump pumps, roof leaders, roof drains, swimming
pools, ornamental ponds, water cooled refrigeration, air-conditioning
units, fire sprinkler systems, and any other similar devices with
the Borough of Fair Haven or Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority's
sanitary sewer system.
[2002 Code § 13.08.090]
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be liable, upon conviction, to the penalty stated in Chapter
1, Section
1-5.