[Adopted 9-16-1998 by Ord. No. 461-98]
This article shall be hereafter known as the
"Borough of Franklin Park Grease Clogging Remediation Ordinance."
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any food establishment in any building, room or
place or any portion thereof or appurtenance thereto where human food
or drink is mixed, cooked or otherwise prepared, offered for sale,
sold, served or given, with or without charge, to patrons, customers
or guests for consumption on the premises; provided, however, that
this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation and
serving of food in single-family dwellings to the resident family
or its guests.
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gallons per minute (gpm)
or less and which is located inside the building. Grease traps shall
be rated for a minimum of 22.5 gpm.
An interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gpm and which
is located underground outside the building.
Includes any public eating place where regular meals are
prepared, offered for sale, sold and served to patrons, customers
or guests for compensation, based on the price charged for and generally
paid at the conclusion of each meal. The words "regular meals" as
used herein means meals generally consisting of courses embracing
some kind of meat or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage
and accompaniments, served at more or less regular intervals.
Every building or room occupied or used as a
public eating place or restaurant shall be well-drained. All soil
pipes, waste pipes, drains or other plumbing fixtures shall be of
adequate size to enable a passage of any waste intended to pass through
it to the main public sewer. All drains, sewers, waste and soil pipes,
traps and water and gas pipes shall, at all times, be kept in good
repair and order so that no gases or odor shall escape therefrom and
so that the same shall not leak, and all vent pipes shall be kept
in good order and repair and free from obstruction.
A.
On or before January 1, 1999, every building, room
or space or part thereof used as a restaurant or food preparation
facility, whether new or existing, shall install or cause to be installed
a grease interceptor or grease trap. The type of installation shall
be determined by the total fixture flow-through rate of potential
grease-laden fixtures discharging through the building sewage lines
as determined by the Allegheny County Health Department Plumbing Division.
For flow-through rates of 35 gpm or less, an internal grease trap
may be installed in certain existing structures used as restaurants
and food preparation facilities. For flow-through rates exceeding
35 gpm, an external underground grease interceptor must be installed
in all new structures or changes of use involving restaurants or food
preparation facilities.
B.
Said grease trap or interceptor shall be installed
at an appropriate location along the sewer line between the restaurant
and/or food preparation facility and the line's entry into the main
public sewer line. An inspection-site tee shall be installed between
the interceptor discharge and connection to the public sewer system.
All installations shall be in accordance with Article 15 of the Allegheny
County Health Department Plumbing Code and Regulations.
C.
No solid waste devices, such as waste grinders, disposals,
potato peelers, etc., shall discharge through the grease trap or grease
interceptor. Only potential grease-laden fixtures may discharge through
the trap or interceptor.
D.
All new restaurants or food preparation facilities
shall be required to install an exterior, underground grease interceptor
of a minimum of 1,000 gallons, regardless of flow-through rate.
E.
In all existing restaurants or food preparation facilities,
there shall be installed a grease interceptor or grease trap as determined
by flow-through rate, as detailed above. In existing facilities where
it is determined by the Borough of Franklin Park that a grease trap
is not sufficient, the Borough of Franklin Park may require that a
grease interceptor (as detailed above) be installed. Such insufficiency
shall be evidenced by excessive amounts of grease being discharged
into the public sewer system by a facility. All existing restaurants
or food preparation facilities shall, at a change of ownership or
alteration, install an exterior underground grease interceptor of
a minimum capacity of 1,000 gallons. In all existing structures, buildings
or parts thereof in which there is a change of use or occupancy to
that of a restaurant or food preparation facility there shall be installed
a grease interceptor, minimum capacity of 1,000 gallons, regardless
of flow-through rate. Each grease interceptor or grease trap shall
and must be installed by a plumber registered with the Allegheny County
Plumbing Department.
F.
Waiver. A waiver of the requirements of this article
may be permitted for new food establishments that do not generate
a significant amount of grease. In order to be considered, the establishment
must establish that it will not perform any significant preparation
of food on the premises. Said waiver shall be presented to Borough
Council for its review and approval. Borough Council shall require,
in exchange for the waiver of the one-thousand-gallon grease trap
interceptor, that the commercial enterprise install and maintain an
under-sink grease trap that provides the flow-through rate of at least
25 gallons per minute. The Borough Council may consult with ALCOSAN
and MTSA in considering the application for waiver.
[Added 2-20-2002 by Ord. No. 508-02]
A.
All grease interceptors and grease traps shall be
maintained and kept in good working order at all times. The interceptor
or trap shall limit the amount of grease discharged into the public
sewer system to levels not exceeding those permitted by the Allegheny
County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN). Oil/grease discharges shall not
exceed 200 ppm downstream of the interceptor or trap.
B.
It shall be the duty and responsibility of any owner,
lessee or agent of any restaurant or food preparation facility to,
at a minimum, annually inspect the grease interceptor or trap. A written
record shall be kept of all inspections. The inspection record shall,
at a minimum, list the name (inspector and company), address, phone
number of the inspection/disposal company, the method and frequency
of cleaning schedule and the data of the cleaning/inspection. Such
records shall be presented to the Borough of Franklin Park upon request.
A more frequent cleaning/inspection schedule may be ordered to be
performed by the facility when it is determined by the Borough of
Franklin Park that the facility is discharging excessive amounts of
grease to the public sewer system.
A.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of up to
$1,000. Each day that a violation continues shall be deemed a separate
offense.
B.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this article
shall cease to discharge or infiltrate or permit the discharge or
infiltration of the violating materials and substances upon receiving
30 days' notice, in writing, to do so. In case the violator neglects
or refuses to do so, in addition to the fines set forth above, the
Borough of Franklin Park may proceed to have the violating system
disconnected and the cost thereof, together with the penalty of 10%
additional thereto, shall be collected from the violator in the manner
now provided by law. In addition to the penalties provided above,
the Borough of Franklin Park shall have the right, upon proper notification,
to cause water service to the offending premises to be terminated
by the provider thereof.
A.
In the discharge of duties, the Franklin Park Building
Inspector/Zoning Officer or authorized representative shall have the
authority to enter, at any reasonable hour, any restaurant or food
preparation facility in the jurisdiction to enforce the provisions
of this article.
B.
The Franklin Park Building Inspector/Zoning Officer
may cooperate with or delegate his authority to the appropriate official
of the Allegheny County Health Department or other county agency charged
with the duty of enforcing any Allegheny County ordinance or regulation
relating to the subject matter of the within article.
The Borough of Franklin Park reserves the right
to invoke and enforce any Allegheny County ordinance or regulation
relating to the subject matter of this article and to seek the imposition
of the penalties provided in said Allegheny County ordinance or regulation.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of
this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal
or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses,
sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent
of the Council of the Borough of Franklin Park that this article would
have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence,
clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
Any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting
with the provisions of this article shall be and the same is hereby
repealed to the extent of said conflict.
