Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Spring-Benner-Walker Joint Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure
to the lateral of a sewer.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property located within this Township upon which there
is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy, or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any improved property located in this Township used wholly
or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering,
or assembly of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved
property located in this Township from which wastes, in addition to
or other than sanitary sewage, are discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any and all wastes discharge from an industrial establishment,
other than sanitary sewage.
LATERAL
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the
curbline or, if no such lateral shall be provided, then "lateral"
shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer which is provided
for connection of any building sewer.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation, or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, owned, maintained, and operated by the authority.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Potter, Centre County, Pennsylvania, acting
by and through its Board of Supervisors or, in appropriate cases,
by and through its authorized representatives.
It is declared that enactment of this Part 1 is necessary for
the protection, benefit and preservation of the health, safety, and
welfare of inhabitants of this Township.