[Adopted 6-5-1975 by Ord. No. 297]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Whitemarsh Township Authority, as originally organized
and as presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created
by the Board of Supervisors of the Township and to which has been
referred by the Board of Supervisors of the Township the specific
project of sewers.
The connection of any structure to the sewer system.
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.
An 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, institutions and industrial establishments.
The Arlingham section of the Township, as more fully described
in any applicable resolutions of the Authority creating such district.
The public sanitary sewer collection system, together with
appurtenant facilities, about to be acquired and constructed in Sewer
District No. 2 of the Township and any improvements, additions or
extensions that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or
the Township or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, or
the duly constituted and elected municipal officials therefor.
A.
All persons owning any occupied building upon property
in Sewer District No. 2 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 Township.
B.
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 may 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.
C.
All persons acquiring title to any occupied building now erected
upon property accessible to the sewer system shall at their own expense,
upon acquisition of title to such property, connect to the sewer system
in accordance with the terms of this section within 60 days after
notice to such owner.
[Added 9-10-2015 by Ord.
No. 957]
D.
All persons acquiring title to any property accessible to the sewer
system upon which an occupied building is hereinafter erected shall,
at the time of erection of said building and at their own expense,
connect to the sewer system in accordance with the terms of this section
within 60 days after notice to such owner.
[Added 9-10-2015 by Ord.
No. 957]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in Sewer District No. 2 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 for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 95-24 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.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any
property connected to the sewer system to discharge into the sewer
system any roof water, surface or underground drainage water, stormwater
or any exhaust steam or any oils, tar, grease, gas, benzene or other
combustible gases or liquids or any garbage (unless treated in a manner
approved by the Authority), offal, insoluble solids or other dangerous
or harmful substances which would adversely affect the functioning
of the sewer system or the processes of sewage treatment.
Any person owning any property connected to the sewer system who discharges or permits the discharge into the sewer system of substances prohibited in § 95-27 hereof shall be deemed and shall be declared to be 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 § 95-24 of this article, if any owner of an occupied building on property in Sewer District No. 2 accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 95-24, the Township 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 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 565]
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 of Montgomery County, shall be fined $1,000
and costs. 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.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township does
hereby grant to the Authority all easements, rights-of-way and other
rights on, under and over the public streets and alleys of the Township
necessary or desirable to facilitate the construction of the sewer
system, subject to all applicable Township ordinances.
