[Ord. 72-2, 2/9/1972, § 1]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying a property
on which there is a building required to be connected to a public
sewer in the Township of Valley to construct or use on such property
any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other device for
the disposal of sanitary sewage and any such prohibited devices shall
be filled in with clean bankrun gravel or dirt within one year following
the date on which the aforesaid connection is required to be made
if, after inspection by the Plumbing Inspector, said prohibited device
presents a hazard or is likely to present a safety hazard in the foreseeable
future.
[Ord. 72-2, 2/9/1972, § 2; as amended by Ord. 75-1, 4/17/1975, § 3; 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 of such
provisions shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
Each occupied building, whether or not the owners thereof 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.
