This article shall be hereafter known as the
"Borough of Franklin Park Grease Clogging Remediation Ordinance."
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
FOOD PREPARATION FACILITY
Includes any food establishment in any building, room or
place or any portion thereof or appurtenance thereto where human food
or drink is mixed, cooked or otherwise prepared, offered for sale,
sold, served or given, with or without charge, to patrons, customers
or guests for consumption on the premises; provided, however, that
this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation and
serving of food in single-family dwellings to the resident family
or its guests.
GREASE TRAP
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gallons per minute (gpm)
or less and which is located inside the building. Grease traps shall
be rated for a minimum of 22.5 gpm.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR
An interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gpm and which
is located underground outside the building.
RESTAURANT
Includes any public eating place where regular meals are
prepared, offered for sale, sold and served to patrons, customers
or guests for compensation, based on the price charged for and generally
paid at the conclusion of each meal. The words "regular meals" as
used herein means meals generally consisting of courses embracing
some kind of meat or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage
and accompaniments, served at more or less regular intervals.
Every building or room occupied or used as a
public eating place or restaurant shall be well-drained. All soil
pipes, waste pipes, drains or other plumbing fixtures shall be of
adequate size to enable a passage of any waste intended to pass through
it to the main public sewer. All drains, sewers, waste and soil pipes,
traps and water and gas pipes shall, at all times, be kept in good
repair and order so that no gases or odor shall escape therefrom and
so that the same shall not leak, and all vent pipes shall be kept
in good order and repair and free from obstruction.
The Borough of Franklin Park reserves the right
to invoke and enforce any Allegheny County ordinance or regulation
relating to the subject matter of this article and to seek the imposition
of the penalties provided in said Allegheny County ordinance or regulation.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of
this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal
or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses,
sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent
of the Council of the Borough of Franklin Park that this article would
have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence,
clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
Any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting
with the provisions of this article shall be and the same is hereby
repealed to the extent of said conflict.