[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:401]
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
stated:
The Warminster Township Municipal Authority or any successor
thereto.
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
or for industrial activity from which sanitary sewage or industrial
waste is or may be discharged, and includes, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats, apartments, stores,
shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
A sewer for the carrying of sanitary sewage or industrial
waste from a building to the point of connection with a public sewer.
The waste product discharged from any establishment resulting
from the manufacture, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly
of any product, commodity or article.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
Facilities operated by the Authority for the collection of
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes within this Township.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:402]
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the Authority shall
cause notice of that fact to be published once in a newspaper of general
circulation in the Township, such notice to state that owners of property
accessible to such sewer and whose principal buildings are within
150 feet therefrom are compelled to make connection therewith pursuant
to this Part 3. A copy of such notice, together with a copy of this
Part 3 and any ordinance or any resolution of the Authority then in
effect imposing sewer connection fees or sewer rents and any rules
and regulations relating to public sewers, shall be mailed to each
person known to the Authority to own property accessible to such sewer,
but failure to mail such copies or defect in the mailed copies or
in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the notice.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:403]
1.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which there is a building (or principal building if there be more than one) within 150 feet from such sewer shall, at his expense, install sanitary facilities and, if industrial waste is discharged from such building, industrial-waste-carrying facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer within 60 days after publication of the notice of completion of the sewer specified in § 18-302.
2.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
a building is hereafter erected within 150 feet therefrom shall, at
the time of erection and at his expense, install sanitary facilities
and, if industrial waste will be discharged from such building, industrial-waste-carrying
facilities in such building and connect the same to the public sewer.
3.
Any person owning property accessible to a public sewer on which
there is a building more than 150 feet from such sewer and any person
owning property not accessible to a public sewer who is nevertheless
able to arrange for connection thereto through intermediate property
may, upon suitable application and at his expense, be permitted to
make such connection.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:404]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property on which there is a building required to be connected to a public sewer under the provisions of § 18-303 hereof to construct or use on such property any privy, cesspool, septic tank or other device for the disposal of sanitary sewage or industrial waste. Any such privy, cesspool, septic tank or other device constructed or used in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance, which shall be abated as provided by law.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:405]
If any person required to make a connection to a public sewer by § 18-303 hereof fails to do so after reasonable notice and opportunity, the Authority shall report such failure to the Board of Township Supervisors, who may proceed as permitted by law to enter upon the property (or authorize the Authority to do so as agent of the Supervisors), make such connection and collect the cost thereof by municipal lien or otherwise.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:406]
Any person violating any provision of this Part 3 shall be served
with written notice stating the nature of the violation and prescribing
a time limit of not more than 10 days for the correction thereof.
Any person continuing such a violation beyond such time limit shall
be subject to a fine as hereinafter provided. Each separate building
or dwelling unit with respect to which a violation occurs and each
ninety-day period during which a violation continues beyond the reasonable
time limit afforded for the correction thereof shall be deemed a separate
offense.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:407; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
1.
No building sewer shall be constructed except upon permit issued
by the Township pursuant to its building and sanitation code.
2.
All building sewers shall be constructed in compliance with the standards
prescribed by the building and sanitation code in effect at the time
construction thereof is commenced.
3.
Each application to the Township for a permit to construct a building
sewer shall be accompanied by all plans, specifications and other
pertinent information; by a permit fee to be established by resolution
from time to time by the Board of Supervisors; and by the applicant's
agreement to indemnify the Township and the Authority against any
loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the
installation of the building sewer.
4.
The Township shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction, and, in any event, before any underground portions of the work shall be covered, the applicant shall notify the Township when the work is ready for final inspection. The Township shall inspect within 48 hours of its receipt of notice. Contemporaneously with such notification to the Township, the applicant shall notify the Authority of his readiness to make connection with the public sewer and pay the Authority the requisite connection fee referred to in Subsection 5 hereof. The Authority shall supervise the work of connecting as it is made by or on behalf of the applicant and shall do so without delaying the progress of the work.
5.
The Authority is hereby empowered to adopt a schedule of connection
fees for each connection made at the curb or property line to the
Authority's sewer system. The Authority may from time to time
alter or amend its schedule of connection fees. The Township hereby
imposes said connection fee as a prerequisite to sewer hookup.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:408]
Any person required by this Part 3 to connect to a public sewer
shall also be required to pretreat any sanitary sewage or industrial
waste which fails to meet the minimum sewage acceptability standards
prescribed by the Building Code[1] in effect at the time discharge is made into the sewer;
provided, however, that the Authority may prescribe standards for
pretreatment, may prescribe more stringent acceptability standards
and may contract for accepting industrial waste in special cases.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:409]
Any person required by this Part 3 to connect to a public sewer
shall permit authorized employees of the Township or the Authority
to enter upon his property at reasonable times to inspect building
sewers, sanitary sewage or industrial-waste-carrying facilities or
pretreatment facilities or to measure and test sanitary sewage or
industrial waste being discharged into public sewers.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 5:410; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part 3, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs, and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part 3 continues or each section of this Part 3 which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
