[Adopted 8-6-1957 by Ord. No. 247]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Hellertown Borough Authority, as presently or hereafter constituted,
which has been created by said Council and to which has been referred
by said Council the specific project of sewers.
The Borough of Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
or the duly constituted and elected Council thereof.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or
business process or from the development, recovery or processing of
natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a public main
or street sewer to curbline or property line if there is no curb and
where the main or street sewer line is laid under a sidewalk; the
word "lateral" shall include the Y connection from the main or street
sewer line.[1]
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sewage and industrial waste, or either thereof, is or may
be discharged.
Shall include individuals or natural persons, artificial
persons existing only in contemplation of law, and shall be construed
to include associations, partnerships, limited partnerships, joint-stock
companies and corporations.
Real estate which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to, the
sewer system.
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
the residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
The sanitary sewer collection system, together with appurtenant
facilities constructed in and for the Borough of Hellertown and any
improvements, additions or extensions that hereafter may be made thereto
by the Authority or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.[2]
Whenever the sewer system or any reasonable portion thereof
is completed and ready for public use, it shall be the duty of the
Authority, from time to time, 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 said sewer
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 Authority.
A.Â
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 60 days after the date of publication specified in § 338-2.
B.Â
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.Â
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.
[Amended 12-30-1964 by Ord. No. 317]
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 for receiving sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 338-3 hereof or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sewage 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, in violation of this article, 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.
No connection shall be made to, nor shall any industrial waste
be discharged into 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 Authority.
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 338-3 of this article, 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 § 338-3, 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 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 60 days from the date thereof.
[Amended 12-30-1964 by Ord. No. 317[1]]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, 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 30
days. Each day that a violation of this article continues or each
section of this article which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
The Borough hereby grants to the Authority all and every easement,
right-of-way and any and all other rights necessary or desirable on,
over or under the streets, sidewalks and alleys in the Borough for
the purpose of constructing the sewer system therein.
