[Adopted 6-3-1963 by Ord. No. 55]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Township of Falls Authority as presently or hereafter
constituted, which has been created by the Board of Supervisors of
the Township of Falls.
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.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Improved property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to the sewer system or as may be further defined or modified under rules and regulations adopted pursuant to § 166-6.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
The public sanitary sewer collection system constructed in
accordance with the plan dated March 1962, heretofore submitted to
and approved by the Township.
The Township of Lower Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
Whenever the sewer system is completed and ready
for public use, it shall be the duty of the Authority to cause notice
of the fact to be given by advertisement published once in one newspaper
of general circulation in the Township, and such advertisement shall
state that the sewer system may be used by all persons owning occupied
buildings or property accessible to the sewer system, subject to the
payment of connection charges and annual sewer rentals in amounts
as may from time to time be fixed by the Authority.
A.
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 § 166-2.
B.
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.
C.
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 90
days after notice to do so from the Authority.
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 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.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, 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 § 166-3 hereof 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 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 § 166-3 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property accessible to the sewer system fails to connects to the sewer system as required by said § 166-3, the Authority 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.
[Amended 10-21-1996 by Ord. No. 305]
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 District Justice, shall be fined not more than $1,000,
plus costs of prosecution, including reasonable attorney's fees. 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. All fines collected
under this article shall forthwith be turned over by the Township
to the Authority. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals
the judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the
applicable rules of civil procedure.
