Definitions are in Part 1.
Whenever the sewer system or a usable portion
thereof are completed and ready for public use, it shall be the duty
of the Township, either by personal service or by registered mail,
to notify each owner of property accessible to the sewer system to
connect to them within 60 days at the owner's expense and to continue
to use the systems and to pay for such use in accordance with the
fee schedule of the Morrisville Authority of the Borough of Morrisville
as it then exists and as it may be subsequently amended.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any
property accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, use or
maintain, or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained
any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on
such premises or otherwise for receiving sanitary sewage after the
expiration of the particular period required by law to erect, construct,
use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the
discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Township, the
storm sewers of the Township or upon public or private property or
otherwise, except into the sewer system.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains
a privy, cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible
to the sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains
any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary
sewage in violation of this article shall be deemed and shall be declared
to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance
the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner
provided by law.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system
except in compliance with the ordinances and resolutions as well as
such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be enacted,
adopted, approved or promulgated by the Township or the Morrisville
Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in §
184-59, if any owner of an occupied building on property accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said §
184-59, the Township shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system, and also upon the occupants of the building in question, a copy of this article and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 30 days from the date thereof.
If the owner of an occupied building fails to connect to the sewer system following the notice in §
184-59, the Township may enter upon such property and construct such connections or designate Morrisville Authority employees and agents to do so.
In case of neglect or refusal or inability by
the owner of such property to pay said bill, it shall be the duty
of the Township or its designee, Morrisville Authority, to file a
municipal lien for said construction within six months of the date
of the completion of the construction of said connection, in accordance
with the general law providing for the filing and recovery of municipal
liens.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates
any provision of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary
proceeding before any Magisterial District Justice of Bucks County,
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution
for each and every offense or, upon default in payment of the fine
and cost not caused by indigence or lack of sufficient assets, by
imprisonment in the Bucks County prison for a period not to exceed
30 days. Each day that such violation is continued after notice shall
constitute a new and separate offense, punishable by like fine, penalty
or imprisonment; and further notices to the offender shall not be
necessary in order to constitute such continuance as an additional
offense or offenses.