[Amended 8-8-1995 by Ord. No. 350; 4-9-1997 by Ord. No. 360]
All owners of improved property, upon which
there is erected a structure or trailer or mobile home intended for
continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings
in the Borough of Economy, where there is a sanitary sewer owned or
constructed by the Economy Borough Municipal Authority, Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, abutting on or adjoining that portion of any road, street,
land or alley or other public thoroughfare and located within 250
feet from any portion of that structure, are hereby required to connect
such structures as are erected on said property to such sanitary sewer
for the purpose of discharging all household waste liquids and other
matter customarily directed into a sanitary sewer system. Said connection
shall be at the owner's cost, shall be made by running a lateral sewer
from the main sanitary sewer to said structure and shall be in full
accord with all regulations and requirements of the Borough of Economy
and the Economy Borough Municipal Authority; and the tap into the
sanitary sewer system shall not be covered until written and dated
authorization to do so is issued by the Economy Borough Municipal
Authority. The owner(s) shall be required to pay a tapping fee and
a monthly service charge as shall be determined by the Economy Borough
Municipal Authority.
Oils, grease, tar, gasoline or other liquids that are not of the usual household nature, including stormwater or drainage due to rain or snow, shall not be emptied into or permitted to enter the sanitary sewer system. Violation thereof shall subject the owners to penalties as set forth herein under §
145-21.
Every such property shall be connected separately
and independently with the sewer through the house connection branch
directly opposite the building or nearest in a downstream direction.
Grouping of buildings upon one house sewer shall not be permitted,
except with special permission granted by the Borough Council.
[Amended 8-8-1995 by Ord. No. 350; 4-8-1997 by Ord. No. 360]
Within six months after written notification
is received from the Economy Borough Municipal Authority, the owner(s)
of said structures on any improved property located within 250 feet
from an Economy Borough Municipal Authority owned or constructed sanitary
sewer shall connect to said sanitary sewer. If the owner(s) shall
fail to make connection within the aforesaid period, the Economy Borough
Municipal Authority may make the connection and collect the cost thereof
from the owner(s) by filing a municipal claim or action of assumpsit,
as provided by law. Any owner(s) required to connect with the sanitary
sewer shall pay the required tapping fee when the application to tap
is made. The application to tap shall be made at the office of the
Economy Borough Municipal Authority. Except as may otherwise be provided
herein, no tap shall be made until the tapping fee is paid in full.
[Amended 8-8-1995 by Ord. No. 350]
Any person required to connect with said sanitary
sewer shall be given notice of a six-month period during which the
required tapping fee may be paid. Following said period, a lien shall
be filed against the premises in question in the amount of any unpaid
balance.
No privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or similar
outdated receptacle for human excrement shall at any time be connected
with the sanitary sewer system.
No privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or similar
outdated receptacle for human excrement shall hereafter be used upon
any premises from which connection with the sanitary sewer system
shall have been made. Any steel vault or tank shall, within 45 days
after connection with a sewer, be abandoned, cleansed and filled under
such direction and supervision as may be required by Sewage Enforcement
Officer.
Any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other
receptacle abandoned pursuant to this Article, which at any future
time shall constitute a nuisance or, in the judgment of the Sewage
Enforcement Officer, constitutes a hazard, shall be cleansed and filled
within 30 days of the notice to do so by the Sewage Enforcement Officer
and, upon failure of the property owner to comply with such notice,
shall be cleansed and filled by Borough Council at the expense of
the owner of such property.
[Amended 2-10-1987 by Ord. No. 274]
Any person who shall violate or fail to conform
to any of the provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 and costs of prosecution
and, in default of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more
than 90 days, provided that each day's continuance of violation, after
notice thereof by Borough Council, shall constitute a separate offense.
The enforcement of the terms and provisions
of this Article shall be vested in the manager of the Municipal Authority.