Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this part shall be as follows:
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
COMMERCIAL UNIT
Refers to a property which is intended to be used or which is used for the purpose of carrying on a trade, business, profession or for social, religious, educational, charitable or public use.
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, office building or other multiple-unit structure whose individual apartments or units are connected to a common internal sewage system, and which are not commonly subject to separate ownership, shall be considered as one connection unit.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the sewered area upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL UNIT
A property which is intended or used in whole or part for the manufacture, fabrication, processing, cleaning, laundering, conversion or assembly of any product, commodity, article or thing.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the curbline or from a sewer to an alley line or, in the case of sewers constructed within easements, from the sewer to the edge of the easement.
NOTICE
Any notice required hereunder shall be made by either personal service by a Township official or by certified mail, return receipt requested.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
PLUMBING CODE
The Plumbing Code of Spring Garden Township, adopted by Ord. 16-67, dated October 11, 1977, as from time to time revised, amended or superseded (see now Chapter 120, Article II).
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
Each private dwelling; each dwelling unit in a double house or in a row of connecting houses; each apartment; each room, group of rooms, mobile home or enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or group of persons living together or by person or persons living alone; which unit is connected to the sewer system and from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged into the sewer system.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The type of toilet and other water-carried waste normally discharged from residential properties. It shall include wash water and tap water from any sink.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWERED AREA
That portion of the Township in which there shall be constructed a sewage collection system, as from time to tine constructed and extended by the Township or others, and that part of areas outside the Township in which sewers are or shall be constructed which connect to the sanitary sewer facilities of the City of York and Springettsbury Township.
SEWER RENTAL UNIT
Each residential, commercial and industrial unit.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collection, pumping and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial waste, situated in the Township sewered area and owned and/or operated by the Township.
STREET
Includes any street, road, lane, court, alley and public square.
TOWNSHIP
Spring Garden Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Notice from the Township, when required herein, may be made by the Township Manager or the Solicitor for the Township or any other person authorized by the Board of Commissioners.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Spring Garden, York County, Pennsylvania, or, as the context may require, the Board of Commissioners (in connection with matters requiring action of the Board) or such officers or employees of the Township as are authorized to act for the Township in the premises.