This article shall be known as the "New Salem
Borough Sewer Fee and Rental Charge Ordinance."
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article
shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of New Salem, York County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals, and from
which structure sewage or industrial waste, or both, is or may be
discharged.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension of the sewage drainage system from any building
to the lateral or service connection of a sewer.
EDU or EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT
A dwelling consisting of a room, group of rooms, manufactured
housing or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate
living quarters for a family, persons living together or persons living
alone. In nondwelling settings, an EDU shall be considered an average
of 280 gallons per day of water usage.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within the Borough and within the area
served by the sanitary sewer system constructed by the Borough upon
which there is erected a building or buildings.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property located within the area served
by the sanitary sewer system constructed by the Borough.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes, including
the wastewater, from any improved property, excluding any groundwater,
surface water or stormwater.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial waste.
The Borough of New Salem hereby imposes a tapping
fee in the amount of $2,000 per EDU upon the owner of each improved
property required to connect to the sewer system constructed by the
Borough. Connection fees and customer facilities fees in addition
to this tapping fee may also be set by the Borough by resolution from
time to time.
The funds received by the Borough from the collection
of the tapping fees or connection charges or from sewer rentals and
charges and all penalties thereon as herein provided for any fines
collected by the Borough in connection with the sewer system shall
be segregated and kept separate and apart from all other funds of
the Borough and shall be used only for the purpose of defraying the
expenses of the Borough in the operation, maintenance (including insurance),
repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other expenses in
relation to such sewer system and for such payments as the Borough
may be required to make under any lease or agreement it may enter
into for and of, or in connection with, said sewer system.
[Amended 10-7-2008 by Ord. No. 1-2008]
Any person who shall violate the provisions
of this article shall, thereupon, be subject to a fine of not more
than $1,000. Upon judgment against any person by conviction or by
proceedings by summons or default of the fine imposed and costs, said
person may be sentenced to the York County Jail for a period not exceeding
30 days. If such person violating the provisions of this article shall
be a partnership, then the members thereof, or if such person is a
corporation or association, then the officers thereof, shall, in default
of payment of any fine levied hereunder, be imprisoned. Each day of
continued violation of any provision of this article shall constitute
a separate offense.