[Adopted 10-1-1962 by Ord. No. 7-1962; amended in its entirety 3-7-1967 by Ord. No. 11-1967]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
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.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
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.
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.
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
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.
A.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which there is an occupied building shall at his own expense install sanitary facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified in § 191-3.
B.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at the time of erection
and at his expense, install sanitary facilities in such building and
connect the same to the public sewer.
C.
Persons owning properties accessible to a public sewer on which there
are occupied buildings more than 150 feet from such sewer and persons
owning properties not accessible to a public sewer who are nevertheless
able to arrange for connections thereto through intermediate properties
shall be permitted to make such connection.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to a public sewer under the provisions of § 191-4 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage, and any such prohibited devices shall be cleaned and filled in with clean bank-run gravel or dirt within 30 days following the date on which the aforesaid connection is required to be made. Any such privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device constructed or used in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance which shall be abated as provided by law.
B.
No privy, vault, cesspool or similar receptacle for human excrement
shall at any time, now or hereafter, be connected with any of the
Borough sewers.
[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.
A.
Any person desiring to connect to the public sewer shall give the
Borough Secretary at least 24 hours' notice of the time when
such connection shall be made, in order that the Borough Engineer
or his authorized agent can be present to supervise the work of connection.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art I)]
B.
All work of making connections to any of the Borough sewers shall
be done under the personal supervision of the Borough Engineer or
his authorized agent and shall conform to the following requirements:
All sewer connections shall be made at the place where the wye in
the Borough sewer is provided, but if no wye is provided in the Borough
sewer, then the property owner making such connection shall, at his
expense, put in the wye in making such connection. All joints shall
be sealed and made airtight and shall be made smooth and clean inside
with all sewers in straight alignment and of proper grade so as to
provide the free flow of sewage matter without any obstructions and
to be made in accordance with the Borough's specification for
its sanitary sewers. All work pertaining to the connection with the
Borough sewers shall be, financially and otherwise, the responsibility
of the owner of the property with which connection is made, subject
to the right of supervision hereby reserved by the Borough.
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.
