Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in these rates, rules
and regulations shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, or,
as the context may require, the Borough Council (in connection with
matters requiring Councilmanic action) or such officers or employees
of the borough as are authorized to act for the borough in the premises.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial
or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office
building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments
or units are connected to a common internal sewage system and which
are not commonly subject to separate ownership shall be considered
as one connection unit.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the sewered area 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 WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, rejected or escaping
in the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business
process or in the course of the development, recovery or processing
of natural resources, which is discharged into the sewer system as
distinct from sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, extending 15 feet from
the center line of the street.
NONRESIDENTIAL UNIT
Each connection unit, other than a residential unit, which
is connected to the sewer system and each separately owned or managed
business or professional office or commercial or industrial establishment
within such connection unit, which, in each case, is connected to
the sewer system and from which sanitary sewage or industrial waste
is or may be discharged into the sewer system.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
Each private dwelling; each dwelling unit in a double house
or in a row of connecting houses; each apartment; each room, group
of rooms, house trailer or enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy
as separate living quarters by a family or group of persons living
together or by persons living alone; which accommodation is connected
to the sewer system and from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged
into the sewer system.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The type of toilet and other water-carried waste normally
discharged from residential properties.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWERED AREA
That portion of the borough in which there shall be constructed
a sewage collection system as from time to time constructed and extended
by the Authority, the borough or others and that part of areas adjacent
to the borough in which there shall be sewers constructed which connect
to the collection system in the borough.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, situate
in the sewered area and owned and/or operated by the Authority or
the borough.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, alley and public
square.