Valley Forge Sewer Authority, PA Chapter 1 Adoption of Code

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority 8-12-1996. Amendments noted where applicable.]

§ 1-1 Adoption of Code.

"The Code of Rules and Regulations of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority" as prepared and published for said Valley Forge Sewer Authority by General Code Publishers, Rochester, New York, is hereby adopted as a consolidation, codification and revision of the rules and regulations of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority. Chapters 1 through 165 thereof contain the text of the body of all general administrative rules and regulations of Valley Forge Sewer Authority organized as follows:

Chapter 1, Adoption of Code

Chapter 5, General Statement of Policies

Chapter 15, Personnel Policies

Chapter 26, Capital Expenditures

Chapter 30, Check-Signing Procedure

Chapter 41, Meetings

Chapter 45, Property, Disposal of

Chapter 53, Purchasing and Contracts

Chapter 57, Revenues, Use of

Chapter 70, Developer's Specifications

Chapter 90, Sewer Extensions

Chapter 105, Lateral Maintenance and Repair

Chapter 110, Sewer Use

Chapter 115, Treatment Plant Capacity

Chapter 122, Administrative Fees

Chapter 126, Allocated Capacity and Reserve Rental Charges

Chapter 130, Appeals Fees

Chapter 134, Benefit Assessment

Chapter 138, Connection Fees

Chapter 155, Miscellaneous Fees

Chapter 160, Pretreatment Fees

Chapter 165, Tapping and Connection Fees and Sewer Rentals

§ 1-2 Effect of Code on previous provisions.

The provisions of this Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of resolutions, policies and procedures in force immediately prior to the enactment of this resolution, are intended as a continuation as such resolutions, policies and procedures and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior resolution, policy or procedure. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Valley Forge Sewer Authority, and it is the intention of said Authority that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby readopted and reaffirmed as it appears in said Code.

§ 1-3 Inclusion of new rules and regulations prior to adoption of Code.

All resolutions, policies and procedures adopted subsequent to August 12, 1996, and/or prior to the date of this resolution are hereby deemed to be a part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such resolutions, policies and procedures shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.

§ 1-4 Changes and revisions in previously adopted resolutions, policies and procedures.

In compiling and preparing the resolutions, policies and procedures of the authority for adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain nonsubstantive grammatical and style changes were made in one (1) or more of said resolutions, policies and procedures. It is the intention of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the resolutions, policies and procedures so changed have been previously formally amended to read as such.

§ 1-5 Titles and headings; editor's notes.

A. Chapter and article titles, headings and titles of sections and other divisions in the Code or in supplements made to the Code are inserted in the Code and may be inserted in supplements to the Code for the convenience for persons using the Code and are not part of the rules and regulations.

B. Editor's notes indicating sources of sections, giving other information or referring to the statutes or to other parts of the Code are inserted in the Code and may be inserted in supplements to the Code for the convenience of persons using the Code and are not part of the rules and regulations.

§ 1-6 Amendments to Code.

Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that the reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such changes. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the post-bound book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.

§ 1-7 Responsibility for Code.

It shall be the responsibility of the Business Manager to maintain an up-to-date certified copy of the Code of Regulations. This copy shall be the official copy of the Authority's Code of Rules and Regulations and shall be available for public inspection.

§ 1-8 Severability.

The provisions of this resolution and of the Code adopted hereby are severable, and if any clause, sentence, subsection, section, article, chapter or part thereof shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unconstitutional, such judgment or decision shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation and application to the clause, sentence, subsection, section, article, chapter or part thereof rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Valley Forge Sewer Authority that this resolution and the Code would have been adopted if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional clause, sentence, subsection, section, article, chapter or part thereof had not been included therein.

§ 1-9 Effective date.

All provisions of this resolution and of the Code shall be in full force and effect on or after August 12, 1996.