Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
BUILDING SEWER
The sewage drainage system from a building constructed on
any improved property to the lateral serving such improved property,
including any grinder pump or pressure sewer or similar apparatus
or facilities installed by the Township or the owner and which are
located on such improved property.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property in the sewered area of this Township upon which
there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in this Township, used or intended
for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
any other improved property from which wastes, in addition to or other
than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
and/or wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential
to be detrimental to the sewer system.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the property line, or if
no such extension is provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system,
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities owned or operated by the Township, as of any
particular time, for collecting and transmitting sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes discharged by an improved property, other than a
building sewer or a lateral.
SEWERED AREA
That geographic area or areas of the Township served or to
be served by the sewer system and designated, from time to time, by
the Board of Supervisors of the Township.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Kidder, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision of the Commonwealth, acting by and through its Board of
Supervisors, or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
It is declared that enactment of this article
and the provisions hereof are necessary for the protection, benefit
and preservation of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants
of this Township.