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Borough of Edgewood, PA
Allegheny County
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New Laws (15) Index Notes (13)
[Adopted as Ch. XVIII, Part 2, of the 1972 Code]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Means and includes any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
B. 
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
Whenever hereafter any sanitary sewer shall be laid or constructed along any street in the Borough of Edgewood, lateral connections extending from such sanitary sewer to the inner curb line of the sidewalks adjacent thereto shall also be made and laid at the same time as the main sewer shall be laid or constructed, at intervals of 25 feet on each side of the street, and shall be paid for as part of the cost and expense of construction of such main sanitary sewer.
Whenever any person shall desire to connect any building owned by him with the sanitary sewer, such connection shall be made to the nearest available lateral sewer from such sewer system extending to the inside curb line of the property where such connection is desired to be made. The person desiring to make such connection shall, before doing so, obtain a sewer connection permit therefor or, and, at the time of obtaining such permit, pay for the cost of the laying and construction of all sewer connections in front of such property extending from the inside curbline to such main sanitary sewer in such street.
[Amended 1-15-1979 by Ord. No. 818]
The permit to make connection with the sanitary sewer, referred to in § 165-3 of this article, shall be issued by the Borough Manager, but not until:
A. 
The applicant shall have paid the cost referred to in § 165-3 of this article, and a permit fee as set forth in Chapter 118, Fees, which shall be for the use of the Borough.
[Amended 8-1-2005 by Ord. No. 1003]
B. 
The Plumbing Inspector shall have ascertained and certified on the permit application that the plumbing in the building to be connected with the sewer under such permit shall be in strict accordance with the Allegheny County Health Department Plumbing Code, as adopted by the Borough of Edgewood.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 156, Plumbing.
[Amended 8-1-2005 by Ord. No. 1003]
Work of connecting with the Borough sewer system, as required by this article, shall be done under supervision of the Borough's Plumbing Inspector and shall conform in every respect to the provisions in the said Plumbing Code as amended and adapted for the Borough of Edgewood as set forth in Chapter 156, Plumbing, and the connections with such sewer system, and the uses made thereof through such connections, shall conform to the provisions of Article II, Sewer Use, of this Chapter 165, Sewers. No connection shall be put into use until the Plumbing Inspector shall have ascertained that all requirements of this section shall have been met.
[Amended 8-1-2005 by Ord. No. 1003]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Provided that each day's violation of any provision of this article shall constitute a separate violation.