Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms and phrases used in
this article shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a
municipal corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through its
Council, or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the later of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this Borough upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals, and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in this Borough used or intended
for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning,
laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or
any other improved property located in this Borough from which wastes,
in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property line or,
if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that
portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided for connection
of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipal authority or other group
or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
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,
transmitting, treating, or disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, owned by the Borough.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley,
public way or public square.
It is declared that enactment of this article
is necessary for the protection, benefit and preservation of the health,
safety and welfare of inhabitants of this Borough.