The purpose of this article is to establish
procedures for the use and maintenance of existing and new privies
designed to receive and retain sewage, whether from residential or
commercial uses, and it is hereby declared that the enactment of this
article is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation
of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this municipality.
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall
be as follows:
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the 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 sewage
shall or may be discharged.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the township.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, corporation
or other group or entity.
PRIVY
A watertight receptacle, whether permanent or temporary,
which receives and retains sewage where water under pressure or piped
wastewater is not available and designed and constructed to facilitate
the ultimate disposal of the sewage at another site.
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 any substance
which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law (35 P.S. §§ 691.1
through 691.1001).
The Board is hereby authorized and empowered
to undertake within the township the control and methods of privy
use, sewage disposal and sewage collection and transportation thereof.
The Board shall have the right and power by
resolution to fix, charge and collect rates, assessments and other
charges in the area served by its facilities at reasonable and uniform
rates as authorized by applicable law.
The collection and transportation of all sewage
from any improved property utilizing a privy shall be done solely
by or under the direction and control of the Board, and the disposal
thereof shall be made only at such site or sites as may be approved
by the Department of Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
The owner of an improved property that utilizes
a privy shall:
A. Maintain the privy in conformance with this or any
ordinance of this township, the provisions of any applicable law and
the rules and regulations of the Board and any administrative agency
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B. Abandon the privy consistent with applicable public health and environmental standards and obtain a permit for and install an approved on-lot system meeting Chapter
73 standards in the event that water under pressure or piped wastewater
becomes available to the property.
C. Permit the Board to enter upon lands to inspect the
privy for proper operation, maintenance and contents disposal.
[Amended 4-8-2014 by Ord.
No. 198-2014]
Any person who violates any provisions of §
86-16,
86-17 or
86-18 shall, upon conviction thereof by summary proceedings, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.), plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of said fine and costs, shall undergo imprisonment in the county prison for a period not in excess of thirty (30) days.
In addition to any other remedies in this article, any violation of §
86-18 above shall constitute a nuisance and shall be abated by the municipality or the Board by either seeking mitigation of the nuisance or appropriate equitable or legal relief from a court of competent jurisdiction.