[Adopted 8-11-1977 by Ord. No. 66]
All sewers and branches thereof for the disposal of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes within the township at any time heretofore and hereafter constructed or otherwise acquired by the township and/or any municipal authority the township may have or may cause to be created for such purposes are hereby adopted and declared to be, for the purposes of this article, a common system of sanitary sewers for the township and are hereinafter called the "sewer system."
The owner or owners of each property accessible to and whose principal building, heretofore and/or hereafter constructed, is within 150 feet of the sewer line of the sewer system shall connect therewith at any time within 60 days after notice to make such connection is served on such owner or owners by the Township Supervisors, either by personal service or by registered mail. The terms "to connect," the "connection" and the "sewer connection," as used herein, shall mean the extension of the sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes drainage system of the building or premises to the Y's or T's or extensions thereof forming a part of the sewer system.
In case any property owner or owners of such building or premises shall neglect or refuse to connect with the sewer system within the sixty-day-period immediately following service of the notice to connect with the sewer system, the Township Supervisors or their agent may enter upon such property and construct such sewer connection. Upon construction of such sewer connection by the Township Supervisors or their agent, the Township Supervisors shall send an itemized bill of costs of the construction of such sewer connection to the owner or owners of such property, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case such owner or owners neglect or refuse to pay such bill of costs, the Township Supervisors may file a municipal lien for the costs of said construction within six months after the completion of the construction of such sewer connection, as provided by law, or the Township Supervisors may pursue any other legal or equitable remedy available to them to collect such bill of costs. This section is not intended to restrict or limit any legal or equitable remedy that the township may have with respect to the failure of a property owner to connect to the sewer system.
No person shall be authorized to uncover, make any connections with or opening into, alter or disturb the sewer system without having received an annual permit from the township to do so, having registered with the Township Secretary and posted with the Township Secretary a bond payable to the township as the township's interests may appear, complying with the requirements set forth in § 160-16 hereof as applicable to such person.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb the sewer system without the owner or owners of the building or premises affected first obtaining a written sewer connection permit. The owner or owners of a building or premises desiring or required to connect with the sewer system shall first make application therefor, in writing, to the Township Supervisors or their agent, who, upon approval of the application, shall refer it to the Township Secretary.
If the owner or owners of such building or premises will have to connect with the sewer system by means other than through an existing Y or T on any sewer system and extension thereof to the curbline or cartway line of the road or street or public right-of-way line, as the case may be, the Township Secretary, upon receipt of the approved application, shall prepare and deliver to the applicant a form of bond payable to the township in the sum of $2,000, with sufficient corporate sureties to indemnify the township and any municipal authority it may have, if applicable, against all damages for injury to the sewer system, to replace in good condition any curbing, pavement or earth disturbed, to indemnify and save harmless the township and any municipal authority it may have, if applicable, for two years from the completion of the work, from all damages, repairs, costs and expenses, injuries and such actions and suits as are caused or occasioned by defective materials and workmanship and from all damages from any accident and from all costs and attorneys fees incurred by reasons of any matter or thing done, committed or omitted by such owner, his agents or employees under such permit, and to comply in all respects with the ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the township or any other governmental agency having jurisdiction with respect to the same now in force or hereafter to be passed. Upon receipt by the Township Secretary of the bond duly executed, he shall submit the bond to the Township Supervisors or their agent for approval.
Upon the return to the Township Secretary of the bond approved by the Township Supervisors or their agent in all cases where a bond is required as above provided and in all cases upon payment of the sewer connection charge hereinafter provided, the Township Secretary shall issue a sewer connection permit authorizing the approved applicant to connect such building or premises with the sewer system.
The sewer connection charge shall be paid by the owner or owners of such building or premises being connected to the sewer system in accordance with the following schedule: the greater of the actual cost incurred by the township and/or the owner of the sewer system in connection with such connections or $350 for a single-family dwelling unit and, for connections of other than single-family dwelling units, at such sewer connection charge as the Township Supervisors may set from time to time by resolutions duly adopted.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation of the sewer connection and the connection of such building or premises with the sewer system shall be borne by the owner or owners of such building or premises. Such owner or owners shall indemnify and save harmless the township and any municipal authority it may create, if applicable, from any loss or damage directly or indirectly caused by or arising out of such installation and connection.
A separate sewer connection shall be provided for every principal building, except that where a building stands at the rear of another and no separate connection to the sewer system can be made through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the sewer connection from the front building may be extended to the rear building upon written approval of the Township Supervisors or their agent.
All sewer connections, materials therefor, jointing materials and methods used shall at all times be subject to the direction, supervision and approval of the Township Supervisors or their agent according to uniform rules and standards as adopted from time to time by the Township Supervisors.
The size and slope of the sewer connection shall be subject to the approval of the Township Supervisors or their agent, but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches nor shall the slope of such four-inch pipe be less than 1/8 of an inch per foot. The invert of the sewer connection at the point of connection with such building or premises shall be at the same or at a higher elevation than the invert at the point of connection with the sewer system.
No person or persons shall connect with the sewer system other than through, by or into Y's and T's in the sewer system without a special sewer connection permit and the designation of the location of the Y's and T's by the Township Supervisors or their agent. No person shall drill into or tap any of the sewer system without written permission from the Township Supervisors or their agent.
The owner or owners holding sewer connection permits shall notify the Township Supervisors or their agent when the sewer connection is ready for inspection and connection with the sewer system. In no case shall backfill be placed until such inspection has been made.
All excavations for sewer connections shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights to protect the public from hazards. All streets, sidewalks and public property disturbed in the course of making a sewer connection shall be restored to the same condition they were in prior to such disturbance, to the extent practicable, in a manner satisfactory to the Township Supervisors or their agent.
After 60 days have lapsed since such owner or owners received notice to connect with the sewer system as above provided, such owner or owners shall forthwith abandon all privies, cesspools, sinkholes, septic tanks and other receptacles on the premises for receiving sewage and/or industrial wastes (unless specific written permission to the contrary has been given by the Township Supervisors) and shall not at any time thereafter erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sewage and/or industrial wastes except into the sewer system; and all privy vaults or cesspools or similar receptacles for human excrement shall be cleansed and filled under the direction of the Township Supervisors or their agent; and no connection shall be permitted from any privy vault or cesspool to the sewer system.
No such owner or owners shall discharge or permit the discharge of any stormwater, surface water, roof runoff, swimming pool waters, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into the sewer system.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 for each and every offense and costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to be imprisoned in the Beaver County Jail for a period not exceeding 30 days until such fine and costs are paid. Whenever such person shall have been notified in writing by the Township Supervisors or its agent that such person is violating this article, each full week that he shall continue such violation after receipt of such notification shall constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine hereunder upon conviction thereof.