[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 1; as amended by Ord. 328,
7/26/1956, § 1]
The Shillington Municipal Authority as presently or hereafter
constituted, which has been created by Borough Council and to which
has been referred by said Borough Council the specific project of
sewers.
The Borough of Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania, or
the duly constituted and elected municipal authorities thereof.
The liquid, gaseous or solid waste from industrial processes
as distinct from domestic sewage.
That part of the sewer system extending from a public main
or street sewer to curb line 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.
Each household unit, apartment unit, single dwelling unit,
family unit, business unit and industrial unit, and refers to 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.
Includes 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
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
The sanitary sewer collection system and appurtenant facilities
about to be constructed in and for the Borough of Shillington, and
the interceptor sewers of the Authority and any improvements, additions
or extensions that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority
or the Borough, or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 2]
Whenever the sewer system is completed and ready for public
use it shall be the duty of the Borough 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 property owners in the Borough 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 Borough.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 3]
1.
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 § 18-102.
2.
All persons owning any property accessible to the sewer system upon
which a 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.
3.
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.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 4]
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 § 18-103 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.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 5]
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 Part 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.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 6]
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.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 7]
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 18-103 of this Part, 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 § 18-103, 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 Part 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.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954; as added by Ord. 301, 10/14/1954, § 2;
and as amended by Ord. 1025, 10/14/2004]
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to connect any premises or buildings to the sanitary sewage system
of the Borough of Shillington without first securing a permit to do
the same from the proper Borough officials at a cost, to be established
by resolution of Borough Council, for each connection.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954; as added by Ord. 301, 10/14/1954, § 4]
Said permits and licenses covered by this Part shall be issued
by persons designated from time to time by the Borough Council.
[Ord. 295, 6/10/1954, § 8; as amended by Ord. 301,
10/14/1954, § 5; by Ord. 328, 7/26/1956, § 1;
by Ord. 365, 2/26/1959, § 1; by Ord. 517, 7/17/1970, § 1;
by Ord. 519, 7/17/1970, § 1; by Ord. 684, 7/10/1980, § 1;
by Ord. 715, 12/9/1982, § 1; by Ord. 758, 3/14/1958, § 1;
by Ord. 893, 12/8/1994, § 1; and by Ord. 1025, 10/14/2004]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding
$1,000 and costs and, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Provided: whenever
any person, firm or corporation shall have been officially notified
by the proper Borough officials or by a summons in a prosecution or
in any other official manner that he or it is committing a violation,
each five days continuance of such violation after such notification
shall constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty.
[Ord. 1055, 8/10/2006, § 1]
In order to prevent the inflow of stormwater into the sanitary
sewer system, the Borough of Shillington ("Borough") is requiring
that sewer lateral vent inserts ("insert") be installed in all sewer
laterals within the Borough.
[Ord. 1055, 8/10/2006, § 2]
Only the Borough, or its representative, is permitted to remove
an insert. Property owners, their tenants and/or their plumbers or
other contractors are hereby prohibited from removing the insert.
[Ord. 1055, 8/10/2006, § 3]
1.
Should a property owner experience a problem deemed to be caused
by the insert, the property owner shall notify the Borough of the
specific nature of the problem. The Borough will investigate the reported
problem. If the problem is verified and found to be caused by the
insert, the Borough will remove the insert.
[Ord. 1055, 8/10/2006, § 4]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Part 1B shall
be liable to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs, for each
and every violation and for each and every day, to be recovered in
the name of the Borough of Shillington before the district justice
according to law, and in default of payment thereof shall undergo
imprisonment for a period of not more than 30 days.
