[Adopted 7-9-1991 by Ord. No. 91-6]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context:
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment
or holding tank or to the public sewer main.
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such
sewage or industrial wastes, serving two or more individual lots.
Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Single system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving
one or two lots and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or
in part into the soil of the property or into any waters of the commonwealth.
Upper Hanover Township, a Second Class Township.
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future.
Any natural person, partnership, association, corporation
or other entity. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing
a penalty or imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person"
shall include the members of an association or entity and the officers
of a corporation and the partners of a partnership.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals, and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful
or inimical to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to
the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
A person or agency appointed to perform inspections and issue
permits in connection with individual sewage systems, community sewage
systems and sewage treatment plants.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other division
of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease; partition by the court for
distribution to heirs or devisees; transfer of ownership; building
or lot development; partition by court for payment of any and all
liens, mortgages or judgements. "Subdivision" shall include a land
development, as defined by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code Act 247 of 1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1988, as may be further
amended thereafter.
This article shall be construed as implementing
for Upper Hanover Township the provisions of the Pennsylvania Sewage
Facilities Act, P.L. 1535, No. 537, January 24, 1966, modified or
reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania by Act 149 of 1994,
and as may be further amended hereafter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 750.1
et seq.
Regardless of the size of any lot, tract, parcel
of ground or subdivision, where public sewage services are not available
to a property owner, the building sewer shall be connected to a individual
sewage system complying with the provisions of this article.
Regardless of the size of any lot, tract or
parcel of ground or subdivision, a local agency permit is required
for the installation of a community and/or new individual sewage system
or sewage treatment plant prior to the construction of any building
for which such system or systems will be installed, and further, such
permits are required prior to the alteration, replacement, repair
or extension of such existing sewage system; provided, however, all
of the foregoing sewage systems are subject to approval by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection. The Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection rules and regulations as set forth in
Title 25 Chapter 73 of the Pennsylvania Code are incorporated herein
as in existence and as amended hereafter and as set forth in the Pennsylvania
Code of Regulations.
Application for a permit required by § 383-7 shall be made and approved prior to the commencement of construction of such facilities. Applications shall be made on forms provided by the local agency, which the applicant shall submit along with any plans, specifications or other information deemed necessary by the Sewage Enforcement Officer. No person shall commence any construction requiring a written permit until such permit has been issued by the Sewage Enforcement Officer and all applicable fees have been paid in full. Once the application for a permit as required hereby is granted, the applicant shall be deemed to be a "permittee."
All fees for applications, soil testing, permits
and/or inspections shall be established by a resolution of the local
agency from time to time.
The applicant/permittee, by applying for and/or receiving a permit required by § 383-7, authorizes, empowers, permits and consents to the Sewage Enforcement Officer entering upon the property of the applicant/permittee for the purpose of conducting inspections required or permitted by this article or as set forth on the permit or as hereinafter set forth:
A.Â
The Sewage Enforcement Officer shall and/or will establish, as a condition of any and all permits required by § 383-7 which are issued, a schedule of mandatory inspections with which the applicant/permittee must abide and comply.
B.Â
Notwithstanding the foregoing and without any limitation
to the foregoing and in addition thereto, the Sewage Enforcement Officer
is authorized and can or may inspect the work permitted by any permit
applied for and/or granted in accordance with this article at any
reasonable time of day that the Sewage Enforcement Officer is available
for so doing.
