[Amended 11-21-1995 by Ord. No. 1846-95]
A system of sewers and drainage is hereby established
and ordained to be constructed for the Township for the purpose of
disposing of domestic drainage and sewage by disposal plant or direct
line of sewers to tidewater or incineration or any other form, method
or disposal that the Board of Commissioners may hereinafter set forth.
The location of the sewers, culverts, conduits, pipes, with the necessary
inlets and appliances, disposal plant, tanks, sprinkling and sand
filters for that purpose shall be along and within the lines, as far
as practicable, of the public roads and highways of the Township within
the territory designated as shown upon the plan approved under Act
537.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: For Act 537, known as the "Sewage
Facilities Act," see 35 P.S. § 750.1 et seq.
The system of sewers and drainage hereby established
and designated in the maps or plans which are made part of this chapter
shall be laid, as far as practicable, along and within the lines of
the public road and highways of the Township, as on said plans or
maps designated, and where such system diverges from said public roads
or highways, as shown on the plan and maps, and passes through private
property, the consent of the owners of such private property shall
be first obtained, if possible, and if not, such sewerage system shall
be constructed through such private property after providing for compensation
in accordance with the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided.
The extension of the system of sewers and drainage
hereby established so as to cover additional portions of the Township
shall be hereafter, from time to time, adopted and approved by the
Board of Township Commissioners, and when such extensions and additions
have been thus approved and ordained, the same shall become a part
of the system of sewers and drainage hereby established.
The Board of Commissioners may, at its discretion,
upon application in form prescribed, take over, when completed, any
extension of the Township's system of sewers, built at the expense
of any owner of private property, provided that the streets, or the
private lands wherein the sewers have been laid, are dedicated to
the Township for public uses and such sewers have been constructed
under the supervision of the Township, said supervision to be at the
expense of the owner, and when so taken over shall be subject to the
provisions hereof with regard to connections, service rentals, etc.
