[Adopted 9-18-1968 by Ord. No. 145]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Lower Moreland Township Authority as presently or hereafter
constituted, which has been created by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township and to which has been referred, by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township, the specific project of sewers.
Buildings or structures other than those intended for residential
occupancy which do not qualify for designation as single-family dwelling
units or multiple-family dwelling units.
[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
Determined, in the case of nonresidential establishments,
on the basis of one such unit for each 253 gallons per day of water
consumed with respect to such establishment, such consumption to be
determined by dividing the total volume of water consumed, in the
four most recent consecutive quarterly periods for which water utility
records of water consumption are available, by the total number of
days in such quarterly periods. In determining the number of such
units in excess of one with respect to such establishment, the Authority
may round up to the nearest half-unit. In the event that the establishment
is supplied with all or a portion of water in addition to or other
than from a water utility, water consumption shall be determined from
water consumption records of the water utility and/or of the water
consumption records from the alternate or additional source of water.
In the event that no such water consumption records are available
or if, in the opinion of the Authority, any such records are inadequate
to properly measure sewage flows, then the Authority shall estimate
the volume of water consumption or volume of sewage flows for such
quarterly periods, and such estimate shall be determinative thereof.
[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392; amended 5-13-2014 by Ord. No.
681]
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes
or form of energy rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Buildings or structures consisting of units which qualify
in part as single-family dwelling units or multiple-family dwelling
units and which qualify in part as commercial, industrial and institutional
properties.
[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
A building or structure in the nature of an apartment building
(conversions, condominiums, cooperatives, rental units) comprised
of two or more living units, each of which is intended for separate
residential habitation by a person or persons living singly or together
as a family unit, such building or structure having a single connection
with the sewer system.
[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property served, directly or indirectly, by the
sewer system.
Any individual firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial
establishments.
All temporary and permanent facilities at any time and from time to time owned by or leased to and operated by the Township and used or usable for or in connection with the collection, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage within certain portions of the Township all as described in Article I.
[Amended 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
A room or group of rooms, structure (attached or detached),
mobile home or other building or structure other than a multiple-family
dwelling unit which is intended for residential habitation by a person
or persons living singly or together as a family unit.
[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
The Township of Lower Moreland, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected authorities thereof.
[Amended 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
A.Â
There is hereby imposed upon each owner of each property connecting to the sewerage system a tapping fee as provided for in Chapter A214, Fees, for each connection made to such sewerage system. Each tapping fee shall be due and payable in its entirety at the time application is made for connection to the sewer system by the owners of a property. If the tapping fee is not paid within 90 days of the date when the same is due and payable, the basic tapping fee shall be increased at the rate as provided for in Chapter A214, Fees, for each ninety-day period thereafter.
B.Â
Financial security for payment of tapping or connection fee and sewer
rental. When an application is made by a potential user for sanitary
sewer service or at any time while sewer service is provided and such
user is reasonably expected to continue to discharge sanitary sewage
into the sewer system after termination by such user of the active
operation of the user's premises, the Township shall have the right
to require reasonable financial security to provide for the payment
by the user of the continuing sewer rentals after such termination
of the user's operation as a condition to approving the user's application
or permitting the continued use of the sanitary sewer system.
[Amended 11-16-1977 by Ord. No. 269; 10-17-1984 by Ord. No. 342; 1-17-1990 by Ord. No. 391; 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392; 7-17-1991 by Ord. No. 416; 4-15-1992 by Ord. No. 426; 9-17-1997 by Ord. No. 477; 6-21-2000 by Ord. No. 509; 8-18-2004 by Ord. No. 560[1]]
Annual sewer rent and charges shall be as provided for in § 160-2.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for an effective
date of 10-1-2004.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 160-16, Discharge of industrial
waste, was repealed 5-18-1994 by Ord. No. 448.
No person shall discharge into the sewer system any roof water,
surface or underground drainage water, stormwater or any exhaust steam
or any oils, tar, grease, gas, benzine or other combustible gases
or liquids or any garbage (unless treated in an approved manner),
offal, insoluble solids or other dangerous or harmful substances which
would adversely affect the functioning of the sewer system or the
processes of sewage treatment.
If use or classification of any property should change within
any calendar year, the difference in sewer rental, if any, prorated
on a monthly basis to the end of the current calendar quarter, will
be charged or credited, as the case may be, on the bill for the succeeding
calendar quarter. Additional classifications and additional sewer
rentals may be established by the Township from time to time.
A.Â
The tapping fee or connection charge shall be due and payable at
the time application is made to the Township to make any connection
to the sewer system, as provided herein, or upon the date when the
Township shall connect any such improved property to the sewer system
at the cost and expense of the owner if such owner shall have failed
to make such connection as required by the Township in the ordinance
or ordinances then in effect requiring such connection.
B.Â
Sewer rental bills shall be payable quarterly in advance, and the
rent for each calendar quarter shall be billed and payable on the
first day of January, April, July and October in each year. Rent for
any billing period in which a connection is made shall be prorated
and shall be billed in conjunction with the next regular billing or
by special billing as the officials responsible for the billing may
elect.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal
of former Subsection C, regarding Sewer District No. 5 rents, added
4-15-1992 by Ord. No. 426. This ordinance also provided for an effective
date of 10-1-2004.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 160-20, Delinquent bills,
was repealed 6-21-2000 by Ord. No. 509.
The funds received by the Township from the collection of the
sewer rentals and charges and all penalties and interest thereon,
as herein provided for, shall be segregated and kept separate and
apart from all other funds of the Township and shall be used only
for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Township in the operation,
maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other
expenses in relation to such sewer system and for such payments as
the Township may be required to make under any lease or agreement
it may enter into in connection with or the financing of the sewer
system, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 2, 1945,
P.L. 382, as amended.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Act of May 2, 1945 (P.L. 382, No. 164)
(the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, 53 P.S. § 301
et seq.), was repealed by Act 22 of 2001 (P.L. 287, No. 22). See now
the Municipality Authorities Act, 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et
seq.
The Township reserves the right to and may from time to time
adopt, revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations as it
deems necessary and proper for the use and operation of the sewer
system, and all such rules and regulations shall be and become a part
of this article.
