Definitions.
AUTHORIZED AGENT
An employee of the Township, professional engineer, plumbing
inspector, sewage enforcement officer, or any other qualified or licensed
person who is authorized to function within specified limits as an
agent of the Township to administer or enforce the provisions of this
Part 4.
BOARD
The Board of Commissioners of Upper Gwynedd Township.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM
Any privately owned system for the collection of sewage from
two or more lots and the discharge thereof to the sewage collection,
conveyance and treatment facilities owned and operated by the Township
(the "Township sewer facilities").
LOT
A part of a subdivision or a parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future, which would not be further subdivided. Whenever a lot is
used for a multiple-family dwelling or for commercial or industrial
purposes, the lot shall be deemed to have been subdivided into an
equivalent number of single-family residential lots as determined
by estimated sewage flows.
MALFUNCTION
A condition which occurs when a community sewage system discharges
sewage onto the surface of the ground, into groundwaters of this commonwealth,
into surface waters of this commonwealth, backs up into a building
connected to the system or in any manner causes a nuisance or hazard
to the public health or pollution of groundwater or surface water
or contamination of public or private drinking water wells. Systems
shall be considered to be malfunctioning if any condition noted above
occurs for any length of time during any period of the year.
PERSON
Any individual, association, public or private corporation,
for-profit or not-for-profit, partnership, firm, trust, estate, department,
board, bureau or agency of the commonwealth, political subdivision,
municipality, district, authority, or any other legal entity whatsoever
which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Whenever
used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty or imposing
a fine or imprisonment, the term "person" shall include the members
of any association, partnership or firm and the officers of any local
agency or municipal, public or private corporation, for-profit or
not-for-profit.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical
to the public health or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation or which constitutes
pollution under the Act of June 22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known
as "The Clean Streams Law," as amended.
SUBDIVISION
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or other parcel
of land into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines. The enumerating
of lots shall include as a lot that portion of the original tract
or tracts remaining after other lots have been subdivided therefrom.