No person shall discharge or dispose of any
wastewater, sanitary sewage, industrial waste or other objectionable
wastewater on public or private property within the Township, except
into an existing and properly functioning on-site sewage disposal
system or in conformity with this Part 1. All such discharges or disposal
are hereby declared to be public nuisances and are subject to abatement
as provided by law.
The owner of any property in the Township which
abuts or adjoins any alley, street or highway in which a sanitary
sewer of the sewer system owned or leased by the Township is located
or through which a sewer of such sewer system is constructed and upon
which there is generated sanitary sewage or industrial waste shall,
upon receipt of written notice from the Township, connect such improved
property to the sewer system without delay in accordance with the
rules and regulations of the Township.
If any owner of such property required to connect
to said sewer system shall neglect or refuse to connect therewith
after written notice so to do, the Township may give such owner written
notice making reference to this section and ordering such owner to
make the required connection within 60 days of the date of said notice,
and upon failure of such owner to make the required connection within
said sixty-day period, the Township or its agents may enter upon such
property and construct such connection and, upon completion of the
work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such
connection to the property owner, which bill shall be payable forthwith.
In the case of neglect or refusal by the owner of such property to
pay said bill, it shall be the duty of the proper Township officials
and the Township Solicitor to file municipal liens for said construction
within six months of the date of the completion of the construction
of said connection.
It shall be unlawful, 60 days from receipt of written notice pursuant to §
155-29.4 or
155-29.5 of this article, for any person, firm or corporation to:
A. Own, maintain, operate or use within the Township
a privy, cesspool, vault, septic tank or similar receptacle for sanitary
sewage upon any property now or hereafter improved which is accessible
to a collection sewer line of said sewer system; or
B. Connect any such privy, cesspool, vault, septic tank
or similar receptacle with any such collection sewer line.
No owner of property shall be permitted to discharge
into the sewer system any waste or drainage other than sanitary sewage
except as may be expressly permitted by the ordinances of the Township
currently in effect.
Notices to property owners under §§
155-29.5 and
155-29.6 of this article may be given either by personal service or by certified mail sent to the last known address of such owner. In the event that such notice is returned as unclaimed, the Township may enter into the property as provided in §
155-29.6 hereof.