This Part 1 shall be known as the "West Manheim Township Sewer
Connection Ordinance."
Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise,
the meaning of the terms used in the Part 1 shall be as follows:
West Manheim Township Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality
authority.
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or periodic
habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which
structure sanitary sewer or industrial waste, or both, is or may be
discharged.
The extension of the sewage drainage system from any building
to the lateral of service connection of a sewer.
Any property located within West Manheim Township and within
the area served by the Township upon which there is erected a building.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy
rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sewage, excluding
any groundwater, surface water or stormwater.
That part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to a
point behind the curbline or, if there shall be no curbline, to a
point behind the projected curbline.
Any privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank, similar
receptacle or other system intended to dispose of sewage on improved
property which is located on such improved property.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property located within West Manheim Township.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation or other group or entity, public or private.
The building or buildings which constitute the main or primary
use of the property. In all instances, a residential dwelling shall
constitute the principal dwelling, but for purposes of this chapter,
there can be more than one principal building on an improved property,
as long as any such building constitutes a primary use of the improved
property.
That portion of, or place in, a sewer, in those cases where
no lateral is provided, which is provided for connection of any building
sewer.
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any
improved property, excluding any groundwater, surface water or stormwater.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sewage and industrial waste.
Includes any street, road, line, court, alley and public
square.
West Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
