This chapter shall be known as the "Warwick Township Plumbing Code"
and will be referred to as "Code" herein.
This Code is an ordinance providing minimum requirements and standards
for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare.
The provisions of this Code shall apply to the installation, alteration,
addition, repair, relocation, replacement, maintenance or use of any building
sewer, building main, sewer, main or lateral except as otherwise provided
for herein.
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the
meaning of terms and phrases used in this chapter shall be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR
The person or entity appointed by the Board of Supervisors to administer
this Plumbing Code.
AUTHORITY
Warwick Township Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
BUILDING MAIN
The extension from the water system of any structure to the lateral
of a main.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure to
the lateral of a sewer including jointing materials, vents, traps, cleanouts
and other appurtenances and accessories thereto required by this Code.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use
by human being or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer or water system extending from a sewer or
a water main to the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to the property
line, or if no lateral shall be provided, then "lateral" shall mean that portion
of, or place in, a main which is provided for connection of any building main.
MAIN
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the water system, used
or usable for water distribution purposes.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation
or other legally recognized group or entity, and the members of such partnership
and the officer of such corporation.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved
property excluding, however, the effluent from septic tanks or cesspools,
rain, storm and ground water, as well as roof or surface water, drainage or
percolating or seeping waters or accumulation thereof, whether underground
or in cellars or basements.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system, used
or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping
transporting, treating and/or disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Township and owned, maintained and
operated by the Authority.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a political
subdivision, acting by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate
cases, by and through its authorized representatives.
WATER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for production, transmission,
storage or distribution of water in, to and for this Township and owned by
the Authority.
No permit shall be required in the case of any repair work as follows:
the stopping of leaks in drains, soil, waste or vent pipe; provided, however,
that should any trap, drainpipe, soil, waste or vent pipe be or become defective
and it become necessary to remove and replace the same with new material in
any part or parts, the same shall be considered as new work and a permit shall
be procured and inspection made as hereinbefore provided; and no permit shall
be required for cleaning or stoppages or the repairing of leaks in pipes,
valves or fixtures when such repairs do not involve or require the replacement
or rearrangement of valves, pipes or fixtures.
All water and/or sewer building work requiring a permit hereunder shall
be inspected by the Administrator to insure compliance with all the requirements
of this Code.
It shall be the duty of the person completing the work authorized by
the permit to notify the Administrator that said work is ready for inspection.
Such notification shall be given not less than 24 hours before the work is
to be inspected.
Whenever any work is being completed contrary to the provisions of this
Code or a permit issued hereunder, the Administrator or its authorized representative
may order the work stopped by notice in writing served personally or by certified
mail on any persons engaged in doing or causing such work to be done, and
any such persons shall forthwith stop such work until authorized by the Administrator
to proceed with such work.
The Administrator may, in writing, suspend or revoke a permit issued
under provisions of this Code, whenever the permit is issued in error on the
basis of incorrect information supplied, or in violation of any local, state
or federal law or regulation.
Appeals to the Board of Supervisors may be made by any person or by
any Township official or agency aggrieved or affected by a decision of the
Administrator. Such appeals shall be taken within 30 days of such determination
by the Administrator by filing a notice of appeal with the Board of Supervisors
specifying the grounds therefor together with the fee imposed by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors for such appeals. Hearing on such appeals shall
be had and decision rendered thereon by the Board within 60 days from date
of filing of the appeal. Any further appeals shall be governed by the applicable
laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Township reserves the right at any time, with or without cause,
by resolution of the Board of Supervisors to remove the Warwick Township Municipal
Authority as the Administrator under this Code and to appoint a successor,
including the Township itself, to administer and enforce this Code.