Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
The Borough of Riverside, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Any licensed professional engineer retained or employed by the Borough or any authorized member of the staff of such engineer.
That part of the main building or house drain or sewer line inside the walls of the building and extending through the walls and connecting to the service line.
A protected and trapped drain for the purpose of carrying off spent waters from the basement of a dwelling, factory, laboratory, workshop or other building, but excluding any drainage resulting from rainwater, springs, wells or other groundwater or surface water.
Any on-lot sewage disposal system, excluding a septic tank.
Any structure or store, office or other structural units thereof intended to be used wholly or in part for the purposes of carrying on a trade, business or profession or for social, amusement, educational, charitable or public use.
The jointure, or the process of making the jointure, of the service line with the lateral sewer.
The cost of constructing the lateral.
Fee based upon cost of construction of the service line from the building to the property line.
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by persons living alone; also, any other dwelling or establishment as listed in the Schedule of Classifications Outline in the Resolution Approving Rules and Regulations and Imposing Sewer Rental Charges.[1]
Any property within or about this Borough upon which there is erected any 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.
Any property situate in the Borough used wholly or in part for the manufacture, processing, cleaning, laundering, or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other property situate in this Borough from which wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
That part of the sewer system extending from the right-of-way line to the main.
Any outlet into a watercourse, ditch, pond, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property situated in or about the Borough of Riverside.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other group.
Any receptacle intended to receive and discharge any liquid, water or water-carried waste into a service line.
Any structure intended to be occupied as a whole by one family.
Toilets, sinks and other plumbing fixtures and related piping intended to receive and discharge sanitary sewage into a service line.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to public health or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the Act of June 22, 1937 (P. L. 1987, No. 394), known as the "Clean Streams Law,"[2] as amended, excluding, however, the effluent from cesspools, rain, stormwater and groundwater, as well as roof or surface water, drainage of percolating or seeping waters, or accumulation thereof, whether underground or in cellars or basements.
The system of pipes and facilities operated or caused to be operated by the Borough and for the collection of sanitary sewage in and for the Borough of Riverside sewer service area.
A watertight receptacle which receives sewage and is designed and constructed to provide for sludge storage, sludge decomposition and to separate solids from the liquid through a period of detention before allowing the liquid to be discharged into a drain field.
Defined in Act 537,[3] approved by the Department of Environmental Protection, for the Borough of Riverside sewerage collection and treatment system, a copy of which can be found in the Borough office.
That part of the building main drain or sewer line extending from outside the outer building wall or foundation wall to its connection with the inlet end of the lateral.
Any pipe of four inches in diameter or larger carrying sanitary sewage and located in public streets or the rights-of way of the Borough.
Any person who may, from time to time, be placed in general charge of the sewer system.
All pipes, sewage ejector and/or pumping stations, sewer force mains, and all appurtenant facilities operated by the Borough in furnishing sewage service in a portion of the Borough of Riverside, but excluding service lines and interior plumbing.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any pipe receiving the discharge of one or more plumbing fixtures.
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwater, surface water, drainage and certain industrial water discharges, such as cooling and air-conditioning waters.
A public way, including any highway, street, road, lane, court, public square, alley or other passageway.
Any pipe extended vertically from a sewer soil pipe or waste pipe to provide ventilation for the system of piping and to prevent siphoning and back pressure.