Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates
otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
ACT 537
The Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535, as amended, 35 P.S.
§ 750.1 et seq., known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities
Act."
AUTHORITY
The Upper Hanover Township Authority of Upper Hanover Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, charged with regulating sewer and
water usage within Upper Hanover Township.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors of Upper Hanover Township.
DEP
The office, by and through its representatives, servants,
agents and employees, of the Department of Environmental Protection
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
A person or agency appointed by any governmental, commonwealth
or municipal body or agency to perform inspections and issue permits
in connection with holding tanks.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
The office of the Montgomery County Health Department or
such other agency, board or commission as shall be delegated to administer
the issuance of permits and promulgate resolutions governing on-site
sewage systems and/or on-site sewage treatment systems in the various
municipalities of Montgomery County, as authorized under the amendments
of Act 537.
HOLDING TANK
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include, but are not limited
to, the following:
(2)
RETENTION TANKA holding tank where sewage is conveyed to it by a water-carrying system.
HOLDING TANK CLEANER
A municipal entity or person, including a holding tank owner,
who removes the contents of a holding tank for purposes of disposing
of the sewage at another site.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a building, structure or other improvement intended for continuous
or periodic habitation and/or the occupancy or use of said site by
human beings or animals and from which structure, building or site
sewage shall or may be discharged.
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a tract, lot or parcel of real
estate used for building purposes, whether immediate or future, or
used and occupied for other than human activity.
MUNICIPALITY
The Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property situate in the Township.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or
imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall
include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes
pollution under the terms and provisions of the Act of June 22, 1937,
P.L. 1987, No. 394, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq., known as the
"Clean Streams Law," as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified
or reenacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
TOWNSHIP
The Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.