Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, or
the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within this Borough 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 WASTE
The liquid, gaseous or solid waste from industrial processes
as distinct from domestic sewage.
LATERAL
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 mean and refer to the Y connection from the
main or street sewer line.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other
group or entity, and the members of such partnership or association
and the officers of such corporation.
SEWAGE
The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWER SYSTEM
The sanitary sewer collection system and conveyance system
together with appurtenant facilities constructed in and for the Borough
and the capacity acquired by the Borough in any wastewater treatment
plant and any improvements, additions or extensions that hereafter
may be made thereto by the Borough or to any part or parts of any
or all thereof.
UCC
The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, as adopted by
the Borough.
Whenever the Borough shall have given notice to the owners of
properties within the Borough limits to connect with the sewer system
pursuant to § 228-16, it shall be unlawful for the property
owner to operate or use within the Borough a privy, cesspool, vault,
septic tank or similar receptacle for sanitary sewage upon his property,
or to connect any such privy, cesspool, vault, septic tank or similar
receptacle with the sewer system, or to discharge sewage into any
storm sewer or other sewer or outlet other than the sewer system.
No owner of any property which abuts on or adjoins any street, alley
or other public highway in which a sewer of the sewer system shall
at the time be located and ready for service, or which shall at the
time be otherwise accessible to such sewer, shall construct or install
any privy, cesspool, vault, septic tank or similar receptacles on
his property.
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 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 Borough.
Any plumber or other person who shall neglect or refuse to take
out a permit or comply with the provisions of this chapter or fail
to make the reports herein designated, shall not be deemed competent
to perform any work intended to be connected with the sewers and no
work performed by such plumbers or other persons shall be connected
with any sewers. All plumbers or other persons are required to conform
to the regulations of the UCC.