[Adopted 10-20-1971]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the sewer
system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage is, or may be, discharged.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Improved property which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent
to, the sewer system.
The normal water carried house hold and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Refers to the public sanitary sewer collection system, together
with appurtenant facilities about to be acquired and constructed for
a portion of the Township and any improvements, additions or extensions
that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Township
or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
A.
All persons owning any occupied building now erected upon property
in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own
expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60 days
after written notice to such persons from the Township.
B.
All persons owning any property in the Township accessible to the
sewer system upon which an occupied building is hereafter erected
shall, at the time of the erection of such building and at their own
expense, connect the same with the sewer system.
C.
All persons owning any occupied building upon property in the Township
which hereafter becomes accessible to the sewer system shall, at their
own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60
days after notice to do so from the Township.
D.
Where more than one occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, is
contained in a separate structure, a single common connection to the
lateral of the sewer system may be permitted for accommodating all
units contained in such structure except that separate connections
shall be required for each semidetached or row-type house or structure.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in the Township accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct or use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained, any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 280-2 hereof, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduct, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Township, the storm sewers of the Township or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy,
cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the
sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains any
pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary
sewage in violation of this article, shall be deemed and shall be
declared to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance,
which nuisance the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate
in the manner provided by law.
No connection shall be made to the sewer system except in compliance
with the ordinances and resolutions, as well as such rules and regulations
as may, from time to time, be enacted, adopted, approved or promulgated
by the Township or the Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 280-2 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 280-2, the Township shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system, and also upon the occupants of the building in question, a copy of this article and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 30 days from the date thereof.
The provisions of this article are declared to be for the health,
safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township and persons violating
any provisions of this article, upon conviction before any Magisterial
District Judge, shall pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 and the costs
of prosecution upon default of payment, imprisonment in the county
jail for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each ninety-day period during
which such violation of such provisions shall continue, shall be deemed
to be a separate offense. Each occupied building, as hereinbefore
defined, whether or not the owners thereof shall be permitted to connect
two or more occupied buildings or units by a single common connection
to a lateral of the sewer system or shall be required to make separate
connections for each occupied building or unit, shall constitute a
separate and distinct unit under the provisions of this article and
the persons owning occupied buildings, consisting of multiple units
contained in the same structure, who violate any of the provisions
of this article, shall be subject to the aforesaid fine for each and
every one of such occupied buildings or units which are in violation
of the provisions of this article.
