[Adopted 1-7-2002 by Ord. No. 96]
Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article
shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
“Clean Water Act,” as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.
A three-month period determined by dividing the calendar
or fiscal year into four periods of three months each.
Any property within Hamilton Township, Adams County, and
within the area served by the Route 94 Sanitary Sewer System upon
which there is erected a structure or structures intended for continuous
or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or by animals
and from which structure or structures sewage shall or may be discharged.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property located within the area served
by Hamilton Township.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
All domestic units.
Normal, water-carried household or toilet wastes from any
improved property, excluding any ground, surface, or storm water.
The Berwick Sewage Treatment Plant which provides treatment
to wastewater from the Route 94 Sanitary Sewer System including, but
not limited to, any arrangement of devices and structures used for
treatment of sewage and authorized industrial wastes.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
which shall be used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
treating and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes.
Sewer rentals and charges are imposed upon and
shall be collected from the owner of each improved property which
shall be connected with the sewer system, for the use of the sewer
system, whether such use shall be direct or indirect, which sewer
rentals or charges shall be direct or indirect, which sewer rentals
or charges shall commence and shall be effective as of the effective
date of connection as set forth in the connection letter and shall
be payable as provided herein. All such sewer rentals and charges,
together with any late charges or penalties, shall be used for the
purpose of operation, maintaining and replacement of the sewer systems
or the retirement of debt incurred in connection therewith.
A.
Sewer rentals and charges to improved property. Sewer
rentals and charges for sewage and industrial wastes discharged into
the sewer system for any improved property, or part thereof, shall
be in an amount established by the Hamilton Township Board of Supervisors
by resolution from time to time.
B.
Additions and changes to schedules. Classifications
of sewer rentals or charges therefor or modifications of sewer rentals
or charges therefor may be adopted and promulgated by this Township
from time to time, as shall be deemed necessary.
A.
Sewer rentals and charges imposed under § 103-72 of this article shall be payable on the first day of each calendar or fiscal quarter; as may be established by this Township, and shall cover a quarterly billing period consisting of the immediately preceding calendar or fiscal quarter.
B.
Sewer rentals and charges shall be payable upon the date set forth in Subsection A of this section and the appropriate amount, computed in accordance with this article, shall constitute the net bill. If sewer rentals and charges are not paid within 30 calendar days after the applicable date upon which such shall be payable, as set forth in Subsection A of this section, an additional sum of 20% shall be added to such net bill, which net bill, plus such additional sum, shall constitute the gross bill. Payment made or mailed and postmarked on or before the last day of such thirty-calendar-day period shall constitute payment within such period. If the end of such thirty-calendar day period shall fall on a legal holiday or on a Sunday, any payment which is made on or mailed and postmarked on the next succeeding weekday which is not a legal holiday shall constitute payment within such period.
C.
Whenever service to any improved property shall begin
after the first day or shall terminate before the last day of any
calendar or fiscal quarter, sewer rentals and charges for such period
shall be prorated equitably, as appropriate, for that portion of the
calendar or fiscal quarter during which such service was rendered
by this Township, except that sewer rentals and charges shall begin
on the day following the expiration of a notice to connect.
D.
Every owner of improved property which is connected
to the sewer system initially shall provide the Township with and
thereafter shall keep the Township advised of his or her correct address.
Failure of any person to receive quarterly bills for sewer rentals
and charges shall not be considered an excuse for nonpayment nor shall
such failure result in an extension of the period of time during which
the net bill shall be payable.
Sewer rentals and charges imposed by this article
shall be a lien upon the improved property connected to and served
by the sewer system; and such sewer rentals and charges which shall
be delinquent for a period of time determined by the Board by resolution
from time to time to be the point at which the Township's claim becomes
delinquent shall be filed as a lien against the improved property
so connected to and served by the sewer system, which lien shall be
filed in the office of the Prothonotary of Adams County, Pennsylvania,
and shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the filing
and collecting of municipal claims.
