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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Article
III, Main Line Sewer Extensions, adopted 2-8-1977 by Ord. No. 1414,
as amended.
Any person, firm, corporation or other entity owning property
not abutting on any main trunk sanitary sewer laid and constructed
throughout the Township desiring to connect into said sewer by a main
line sewer extension shall file with the Shaler Township Secretary
an application, and upon approval of said application by the proper
Township officer, and upon payment of the fee therefor, a permit will
be issued.
A.
Public sewer system available prior to January 1, 1994. A public sewer system shall be deemed available to a premises used for human occupancy if such a premises is on any piece of ground abutting on, contiguous to or within 150 feet (measured along a street, alley or easement) of such sanitary sewer system. A connection conforming to the rules and regulations and standards of the Allegheny County Health Department, Article XV, Plumbing, shall be made thereto. Where public sewer systems are made available to the premises, it shall be mandatory that building systems be connected to available public systems as a positive measure to protect the health of building occupants. The Township Building Inspector may issue notices, giving up to 90 days, to discontinue the use of such private sewer system and to connect to the public sewer facility.
B.
Public sewer line or extension constructed after January 1, 1994.
Where a public sewer line or public sewer line extension is constructed
after January 1, 1994, all premises used for human occupancy within
250 feet of such sewer line or public sewer line extension shall have
building sewer systems connected to the public facility and discontinue
use of any nonpublic sewage treatment system. The owner of an affected
premises may be given up to 90 days by the Township Building Inspector
to connect to the available public sewer and to discontinue the use
of such private sewer system.
C.
Sewer extensions shall be to end of last property to receive service.
Sanitary sewer extensions shall be to the end of the last property
to receive service and shall be designed so as to permit the entire
upstream watershed to be served, based upon the Township's projections
of development in the watershed. Unless there is no potential for
upstream development, it shall include the entire quantity of pipeline
and appurtenant facilities required to and across the entire frontage
of the last property for which the owner has requested sanitary sewer
service.
In addition to the permit fees herein provided, the property
owner shall also pay all costs, damages, expenses and connection fees
required to be paid with respect to said connection to said sewer.
The property owner, by acceptance of said permit, agrees that
the ownership of said sanitary sewer extension, when completed, shall
vest in the Township of Shaler, together with an easement of 10 feet
on either side of the center line thereof, for the purpose of repair,
replacement, enlargement or reconstruction of said sanitary sewer
extension, and, further, the owner of the property agrees to execute
any and all documents, in recordable form, as may be required by the
Township of Shaler to evidence such agreement.
For each and every violation of the provisions of this article,
any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction for a summary offense by the issuing authority
for the magisterial district which includes the Township of Shaler,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $600
and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment thereof, may be
committed by the issuing authority to prison in conformity with the
Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
