CROSS REFERENCES
Excavations by public service corporations and utility companies — See § 1026.06.
Fire hydrants — See Ch. 1228.
Private swimming pools — See Ch. 1444.
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Authority to regulate — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1202(2).
Condemnation of property for alteration of watercourses — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1501.
Water connections — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 2461 et seq.
Water supply and waterworks — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 2401 et seq.
Watercourses — See Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 2201 et seq.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
There is hereby levied and assessed, as of January 1, 1970, upon every person, firm or corporation (hereinafter referred to as a "utility company") owning, operating, using or maintaining water pipes, mains and accessory valves, hydrants and incidental equipment connected therewith (hereinafter referred to as "water mains"), in or upon the public highways of the Borough, an annual license and inspection fee as set forth in § 208.04(B) of the Administration Code for each mile of water main at any time owned, operated, used or maintained during such year.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
The fee referred to in § 1040.01 shall be paid to the Borough by the utility company liable therefor on or before June 1, 1970, and thereafter on or before June 1 of each succeeding year.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
The license fee levied in § 1040.01 shall apply only to water mains and not to mains or pipes used for any other purpose. Nothing herein contained shall be held to repeal, abrogate, modify or amend any existing ordinance, resolution or agreement pertaining to the erection, construction and/or maintenance and use of pipes or mains for other purposes by any utility company or governing or regulating such utility company. All such existing ordinances, resolutions and agreements, except as herein expressly modified, shall be and remain in full force, unaffected by the provisions of this chapter.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
The proper Borough officers are hereby authorized to collect the license and inspection fees provided for in § 1040.01 by action in assumpsit, or by the filing of liens, or as now or hereafter provided by law for the collection of penalties, or by such further means, legal or equitable, as Council may, by resolution, authorize at any time hereafter.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
In addition to the usual publication, the Borough Secretary shall give notice of the passage of this chapter (Ord. 294, passed March 2, 1970) together with a copy thereof, to all utility companies now or hereafter using or maintaining water mains in the Borough.
[Ord. 294, passed 3-2-1970]
It shall be the duty of the Highway Committee of Council to cause a careful inspection to be made of all water mains, valves, hydrants, appurtenances and incidental equipment located in or upon public highways of the Borough, and/or of the ground or pavement above the same, at least once every year, and to cause appropriate action to be taken for the repair, replacement or removal of any such water mains, appurtenances and accessory fixtures and equipment thereto attached or of the surface of the street above the same, which may be found to be defective, dangerous or erected and/or maintained contrary to any law or ordinance now or hereafter in effect. All such repairs, reconstruction, removal or replacements shall be made at the expense of the utility company responsible for the damage, which expense shall be collected as set forth in § 1040.04.