This Part shall be known and may be cited as "Sewer System Rules
and Regulations Ordinance No. 1-2013."
This Part in enacted for the following purposes:
A. These rules and regulations set forth uniform requirements for users
of the Township sewer system and help enable the Township to comply
with applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and permits.
The Township will furnish sewer service only in accordance with these
rules and regulations.
B. These rules and regulations are made part of every connection and
service application, contract, agreement or license entered into between
the owner of any improved property and the Township. These rules and
regulations are applicable to all sewered areas within the Township.
No connection through which sanitary sewage or industrial wastes does
or may enter the sewer system shall be constructed, altered, repaired,
or allowed to exist which does not comply with these rules and regulations.
C. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Township shall administer,
implement, and enforce the provisions of these rules and regulations,
in accordance with the purposes, policies, and objectives as set forth
herein.
D. However, the Township does hereby reserves the right to alter, amend,
and/or repeal these rules and regulations, which when altered and
amended shall become and thereafter be a part of every such connection
and service application, contract, agreement or license for sewer
service in effect at the time of such alteration, amendment and/or
adoption.
All other ordinances, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent
or in conflict with these rules and regulations are hereby repealed
to the extent of any inconsistency or conflict.
The provisions of these rules and regulations shall be severable,
and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional,
unlawful, ineffective, or invalid, the validity of any of the remaining
provisions of this Part shall not be affected. It is hereby declared
to be the intention of the Foster Township Board of Supervisors that
these rules and regulations would have been adopted had such unconstitutional,
unlawful, ineffective or invalid provision not been included therein.
These rules and regulations shall become effective immediately
upon their date of enactment.