Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
Eastern York County Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal authority.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage," published by the American Public Health Association.
A three-month period determined by dividing the calendar or fiscal year into four periods of three months each.
The quantity of chlorine absorbed in water, sewage or other liquids, allowing a residual of 0.1 ppm by weight after 15 minutes of contact.
Any improved property which shall be used, in whole or in part, for sale or distribution of any product, commodity, article or service, excluding, however, churches and chapels (which shall be considered to be domestic units) and industrial establishments.
A combination of individual samples obtained at regular intervals over a specific time period not to exceed two hours.
The concentration as determined by a twenty-four-hour composite sample.
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure which shall be occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by one family or other group of people living together or by individuals living alone, and also shall mean schools, churches and chapels, upon an improved property.
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
An individual sample collected in less than 15 minutes.
An occupation or profession such as, but not limited to, physician (M.D. or D.O.), dentist, optometrist, optician, chiropractor, podiatrist, veterinarian, psychologist, artist, writer, lawyer, realtor, real estate salesperson, salesperson, sales representative, surveyor, engineer, architect, accountant, barber, beautician, seamstress, dressmaker, music or dance instructor or teacher, maintenance or repair service, insurance agent, any business involving the display or sale of a product, or other similar occupation or profession, which:
Is carried on only in a domestic unit or in a structure accessory to a domestic unit.
Is carried on by a member of the family residing in the domestic unit, and not more than one employee outside the family.
Is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the domestic unit for residential purposes and does not involve the use of more than 25% of the total combined floor area of the domestic unit and any accessory structure, and does not result in more than 25% of the total combined gross income of all family members occupying the domestic unit as reported on their federal income tax returns.
A home occupation or profession use will be considered as, and billed at, the same rate as provided for a residential use under the provisions of this article, relating to sewer rentals or charges for the use of the sewer system. In the event that the use of the domestic unit meets or satisfies all of the above requirements except for Subsection A(3), it shall be billed at the same rate as provided for a commercial establishment.
Any property within Hellam Township and within the area served by the authority upon which there is erected a structure or structures intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure or structures sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any improved property which shall be used, in whole or in part, for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any product, commodity or article or from which any process waste, as distinct from sewage, shall be discharged.
Solid, liquid or gaseous substances or forms of energy released or escaping in the course of an industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or in the course of development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sewage, excluding any ground, surface or stormwater.
The concentration not to be exceeded at any time in any grab sample.
All commercial establishments, industrial establishments and all other uses other than domestic units, and any combination thereof.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property located within Hellam Township and within the area served by the authority.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, trust, corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicates the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
Parts per million.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all its particles will be carried freely under normal sewer flow conditions, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in dimension.
All domestic units.
Any improved property owned or occupied by any school district or school districts and used in connection with the public education system of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and any establishment used for private school purposes and not falling within the foregoing definition shall be considered to be a commercial establishment.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property, excluding any ground, surface or stormwater.
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, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial wastes.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtration.
Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Any poisonous substance, including copper, cyanide and chromium ions.
Any publicly or privately owned duly authorized agency, corporation, municipality or organization which is the approved purveyor of the public water supply within the area served by the authority within Hellam Township.
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Editor's Note: Original Sections 2 through 5, Sewer rentals and charges, as amended 4-6-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-5; Computation of sewer rentals and charges; Time and method of payment; and Liens for sewer rentals; filing and collection of liens, respectively, which immediately followed this section, were deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). These provisions were replaced with §§ 380-8 and 380-9.