[Ord. 76, 11/13/1971, § 1]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Valley Township Authority as originally organized and as
presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the
Board of Supervisors of the Township and to which has been referred
by the Board of Supervisors of the Township the specific project of
the sewers.
Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment
unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit
contained within any structure erected within 150 feet from the sewer
system and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewerage is, or may be, discharged.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
Improved property 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 public sanitary sewer collection system, together with
appurtenant facilities about to be acquired and constructed for a
portion of the Township and any improvements, additions or extensions
that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Township
or to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
Valley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania or the duly
constituted and elected municipal officials therefor.
[Ord. 76, 11/13/1971, § 2]
1.
All persons owning any occupied building, now erected upon property
in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own
expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60 days
after written notice to such persons from the Township.
2.
All persons owning any property in the Township 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.
3.
All persons owning any occupied building upon property in the Township
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 Township.
4.
Where more than one occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, is
contained in a separate structure, a single common connection to the
lateral of the sewer system may be permitted for accommodating all
units contained in such structure, except that separate connections
shall be required for each semidetached or row-type house or structure.
[Ord. 76, 11/13/1971, § 3]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in the
Township 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 sanitary sewage after the expiration of the
particular period specified in § 102 or otherwise at any
time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain
or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters
of the Township, the storm sewers of the Township or upon public or
private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
[Ord. 76, 11/13/1974, § 4]
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy,
cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the
sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains any
pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary
sewage in violation of this Part, shall be deemed and shall be declared
to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance
the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner
provided by law.
[Ord. 76, 11/13/1971, § 5]
No connections 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 Township or the Authority.
[Ord. 76, 11/13/1971, § 7; as amended by Ord. 75-1, 4/17/1975, § 1; by Ord. 96-4, 5/7/1996, § 18;
and by Ord. 97-2, 3/18/1997, § 18]
The provisions of this Part are declared to be for the health,
safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township and any person
or legal entity violating any provision of this Part shall be guilty
of a summary offense and subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000, together
with all court costs and reasonable attorney's fees incurred
by the Township in such enforcement proceeding, and may further be
punished by imprisonment to the extent allowed by law for summary
offenses. Each ten-day period during which such violation shall continue,
shall be deemed to be a separate offense. Each occupied building,
as hereinbefore defined, whether or not the owners hereof shall be
permitted to connect two or more occupied buildings or units by a
single common connection to a lateral of the sewer system or shall
be required to make separate connections for each occupied building
or unit shall constitute a separate and distinct unit under the provisions
of this Part and the persons owning occupied buildings, consisting
of multiple units contained in the same structure, who violate any
of the provisions of this Part, shall be subject to the aforesaid
fine for each and every one of such occupied buildings or units which
are in violation of the provisions of this Part.
