[Adopted 2-12-1980 as Ord. No. 219]
A. 
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Borough of Economy upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings.
[Added 8-8-1995 by Ord. No. 350]
PERSON
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm or corporation.
B. 
The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[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 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.