[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 1]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Hatfield Borough Authority as presently or hereafter constituted,
which has been created by Borough Council and to which has been referred
by the Borough Council the specific project of sewers.
The Borough of Hatfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
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 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.
Any 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 household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institution and industrial establishments.
The public sanitary sewer system, together with appurtenant
facilities about to be constructed for the Borough and any improvements,
additions or extensions that hereafter may be made thereto by the
Authority or the Borough or to any part or parts of any or all thereof
and shall specifically include all presently existing public sewer
lines now owned or hereafter acquired by the Authority.
[Ord. No. 127, 2/12/1959, § 2]
Whenever the sewer system is completed and ready for public
use, it shall be the duty of the Borough to cause notice of the fact
to be given by advertisement published once in one newspaper of general
circulation in the Borough, and such advertisement shall state that
the sewer system may be used by all persons owning occupied buildings
on property accessible to the sewer system, subject to the payment
of any connection charges and of annual sewer rentals in amounts as
may from time to time be fixed by the Borough.
[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 3]
1.
All persons owning any occupied building now erected upon property accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 90 days after the date of publication specified in § 18-102 of this Part.
2.
All persons owning any property 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.
3.
All persons owning any occupied building upon property 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 Borough.
4.
Where more than one occupied building, as defined in § 18-101 of this Part, is contained in a separate structure, a single common connection to the lateral to, the sewer system shall 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.
[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 4]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property 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 or otherwise for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 18-103 of this Part, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any Pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Borough, the storm sewers of the Borough or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 5]
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 Part, shall be deemed and shall be declared
to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance
the Borough is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner
provided by law.
[Ord. No. 127, 2/12/1959, § 6]
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 Borough or the Authority.
[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 7]
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 18-103 of this Part, if any owner of an occupied building on property accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 18-103, the Borough 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 Part 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.
[Ord. No. 127, 3/12/1959, § 8; as amended by Ord.
No. 357, 10/16/1991, § 18-108; and by Ord. No. 501, 8/15/2012]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, 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 continues
or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
