(A) Undertaking of project by authority. The first project to be undertaken by the Authority shall be to acquire, hold, construct, improve, maintain and operate, own and/or lease, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, collector sewers, interceptor sewers, force mains, pumping stations and related sewer facilities in and for the incorporating municipalities and for such other territory as it may be authorized to serve and to rehabilitate the Tyrone sewage collection system, all as more fully specified in the recitals hereto, and said Authority shall not undertake any other project unless specifically authorized to do so by ordinances duly enacted by the incorporating municipalities.
(1987 Code, § 35-7)
(B) Adoption of sewer system connection rules. The Board hereby adopts the following rules and regulations with respect to the making of connections to the sewer system.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ANTIS. The Township of Antis, County of Blair, Pennsylvania.
OCCUPIED BUILDING. Each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment unit, store, shop, office, business, commercial or industrial unit, or family unit contained within any structure, erected and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, or either thereof, is or may be discharged, located in the township.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, company, associate, society, corporation or group.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which is part of the sewer system and which carries sanitary sewage and/or treated industrial wastes and to which storm-, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE. Any combination of water-carried wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, institutions, manufacturing plants, processing plants, commercial establishments or other places in which such wastes are produced, together with such ground-, surface, storm or other water as may be present.
SNYDER. The Township of Snyder, County of Blair, Pennsylvania.
TOWNSHIP ENGINEER. An engineer employed by the township or an authorized member of his or her staff.
(2) Use of public sewers required.
(a) Unlawful actions; unapproved sewer lines. It shall be unlawful for any owner of property who is required to connect to the sewer system pursuant to division (B)(2)(b) below, to construct or maintain any privately owned sewer line not approved by the township, privy, privy vault or cesspool or septic tank, intended or used for the disposal of sewage within the township.
(b) Required installation and connection. Each owner of any occupied building situate on property abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there has been constructed a sanitary sewer and where any part of such building is within 150 feet of said sewer and having accessible to it the use thereof, shall at his or her own expense, install suitable sanitary facilities therein and connect such facilities directly with such sewer in accordance with the provisions of this section within 60 days after the date of official notice to do so, given in the manner provided by law. In the event that any such owner shall refuse or neglect to so connect within said 60-day period, he or she shall be deemed to be in violation of this section, and the Board of Supervisors or their agents may enter upon such property and construct such connection. In such case, the Board of Supervisors shall forthwith, upon completion of the work, send an itemized bill of the cost of the construction of such connection to such owner, which bill shall be payable forthwith. In case of neglect or refusal by such owner to pay said bill within 30 days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to file municipal liens. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, no owner of an occupied building shall be required to connect such building to a sanitary sewer if the Board of Supervisors determines that connecting such building would result in an overloading of sewage treatment facilities.
(c) Application for permits; connection compliance.
1. Each owner of any property to which division (B)(2)(b) above applies shall forthwith make application in writing to the township, or at the direction of the township, to the Authority, in such form as may be prescribed, for a permit to make the required connection to the sanitary sewer.
2. Upon submission of the above-mentioned application and payment of a tapping fee or fees (imposed by the Authority) in accordance with the then applicable Authority resolution with respect to tapping fees, the applicant shall be entitled to a permit to make such connection, and the township, at its own expense, shall construct, or shall cause the Authority, at its expense, to construct a connecting sewer line from the sanitary sewer in the street to the curbline or the boundary of the right-of-way where no curb exists.
3. No connection shall be made to the sewer system, except in compliance with the procedures set forth in this subdivision and division (B)(2)(b) above and compliance with other available ordinances, resolutions and regulations of the township and the Authority.
(d) Comply with rules and regulations. All connections made to any sanitary sewer shall be constructed in compliance with standard rules and regulations hereafter adopted by the township governing the making of connections.
(3) Powers and authority of inspectors. The Township Engineer and other duly authorized employees or agents of the township and of the Authority bearing proper credentials and bearing proper identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing, in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(4) Penalties; disconnecting.
(a) Any person who shall violate any provision of this section other than division (B)(3) shall be served by the township or their agent with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof (the notice provided in division (B)(2)(b) above being deemed to being a notice of violation for this purpose in respect to violations of such section.) The offender shall, within the period of time (if any, otherwise forthwith) stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
(b) Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit fixed as provided for in division (B)(4)(a) shall be subject to a fine in an amount not exceeding $300 for each violation. A new and separate violation shall be deemed to have been committed for each day any violation continues beyond such time limit.
(c) All fines and penalties imposed for violation of any provision of this section shall be paid to the Treasurer of the township for deposit in the sewer revenue account. Default in payment of the fine and costs shall make the defendant liable to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
(d) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section, in addition to becoming liable for a fine and penalty, shall become liable to the township for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the township by reason of such violation.
(1987 Code, § 35-8)