[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Westampton
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-19-1955]
Each person connected to the sewerage system of the Mount Holly Sewerage
Authority shall pay to the Township of Westampton a sewer service charge in
accordance with the following schedule:
A.
B.
The minimum charge for any premises or group of premises
containing two or more dwelling units, apartments or separately operated business
establishments, served through a single meter or connection, will be determined
by multiplying the aforesaid minimum charge by the number of dwelling units,
apartments or other establishments so served.
C.
Premises not discharging the entire volume of water into
the sewerage system will be allowed a proportionate reduction in the charges,
provided that the customer shall install and maintain facilities, satisfactory
to the Authority, for measuring either the volume discharged or not discharged
into the sewers.[4]
D.
Customers using private water supplies, excepting where
the usage is solely domestic and applicable fixture rates may properly be
used, and excepting when the usage is at a reasonable uniform rate and is
estimated by the Authority to be less than 100,000 gallons per quarter, will
be required to install and maintain facilities, satisfactory to the Authority,
for measuring and determining the volume used or discharged into the sewers.
E.
In addition to the rates hereinbefore set forth, there
shall be added to each quarterly bill the amount of $1.
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted 9-23-1968, establishing a contract
between the Township of Westampton and the Willingsboro Municipal Utilities
Authority for sewage disposal for a portion of the township, provides that
the Willingsboro Municipal Utilities Authority will handle directly all billings
and collections for the use of its services.
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall discharge into said
server any industrial waste or anything deleterious to said sewers or the
sewage system of the Authority, but said sewers shall be used only in conformity
with the rules, regulations and practices of said Authority.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision
of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than
$25 for every day said violation continues.
A.
The owner of each dwelling house whose lot borders on
any of the streets wherein a sewer main is laid shall, within 60 days of construction
of his house where the main already exists, install a toilet in said house
and connect the house to the sewer.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision
of the section shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding
$25 for each day said violation continues.
[Adopted 12-15-1970 by Ord.
No. 6-1970]
The owner of any property located along the line of any sewer in the
Township of Westampton, on which property a house or other building with toilet
facilities is now or shall hereafter be erected, shall connect such house
or other building with such sewer.
[Amended 9-21-1992 by Ord.
No. 10-1992]
The owner of such property failing to connect such house or other building
with the server shall be ordered to do so by the Township Committee, and written
notice of such order shall be given and served upon such owner by the Township
Clerk/Administrator, by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by handing
it to him personally or by leaving it at his place of abode with a member
of his family above the age of 18 years.
A.
Any owner of a property failing to comply with any order
within 60 days after service of such notice shall subject the property of
that owner to be assessed the minimum sewer charge the same as if the sewer
were connected, and such charge shall be a lien on the property and assessed
by the Tax Assessor of this township.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall fail
to comply with any order within 60 days after service of such notice shall
pay a fine not exceeding $25 and an additional fine of $10 for each day of
delay, after the expiration of the 60 days in which the provisions of the
order or notice are not complied with, to be levied by the Judge before whom
convicted.
The Township Committee, with the approval of the Board of Health of
this township, may extend the time for connection because of unusual conditions
or extreme hardship.