As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged, and includes,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats,
apartments, stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO A PUBLIC SEWER
Property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of, such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this municipality. Such
term includes lateral lines from a main street to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
SANITARY SEWER
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
SEWER AUTHORITY
Any sewer committee or department of the municipality or
any other agency operating public sewers for or at the request of
the governing body of the municipality.
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the Sewer Authority
charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice of that fact
to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the
municipality, such notice is to state that owners of property accessible
to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building are compelled
to make connection therewith pursuant to this article. A copy of such
notice, together with a copy of this article and any ordinance then
in effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer rents, shall be
mailed to each person known to the Sewer Authority to own property
accessible to such sewer but failure to mail such copies or a defect
in the mailed copies or defect in the mailing thereof shall not affect
the validity of the notice.
[Amended 2-8-1983 by Ord.
No. 7-1983; 6-9-1992 by Ord. No. 8-1992]
No connection shall be made to any public sewer except on payment
of a connection fee based upon time and material payment with a minimum
fee of $400 required.
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by §
191-4 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the Sewer Authority shall report such failure to the governing body of the municipality, which may proceed as permitted by law to enter upon the property, make such connection and collect the cost thereof by municipal lien or otherwise.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art I)]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any
person violating this section shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of criminal mischief.
No person shall connect or cause to be connected with any of
the public sewers in the Borough, directly or indirectly, any steam
exhaust, boiler blowoff, sediment drip or any pipe carrying or constructed
to carry hot water or acid, germicide, grease, brewery mash, gasoline,
naphtha, benzine, oil or any other substance detrimental to the sewers
or to the operation of the sewerage system of the sewage disposal
works of the Borough.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art I)]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be
served by the Sewer Authority with written notice stating the nature
of the violation and prescribing a reasonable time limit violation
for the correction thereof. Any person continuing such a violation
beyond such time limit shall be subject to a fine in an amount not
exceeding $600 for each offense. Each separate building or dwelling
unit in respect to which a violation occurs and each ninety-day period
during which a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.