(A) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. The Bedminster Township Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal authority, incorporated by Bedminster Township.
BUILDING DRAIN. Part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the interface of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment or holding tank or to the public sewer main. The extension from the sewage drainage system of any improved property to the lateral of a sewer.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM. Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial waste of a liquid nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial waste serving three or more individual lots.
DEPARTMENT. Department of Environmental Protection of the commonwealth.
IMPROVED PROPERTY. Any property within this township upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure, sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gases substance or water-borne waste or form of energy rejected or escaping in the course of any industrial manufacturing, trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
LATERAL. The part of sewer system extending from a sewer to the curb line or, if there shall be no curb, to the edge of the pavement or to the edge of the cartway, if not paved, or, if no such LATERAL shall be provided, then LATERAL shall mean that portion of, or place in a sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
LOT. A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
OWNER. Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, or any property located in this township.
PERSON. Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation. Whenever used in any division prescribing and imposing a penalty, or imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term PERSON shall include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
PUBLIC SEWAGE SYSTEM. Sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated or maintained by the authority approved by the Department under a permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1 et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of the state.
SEWAGE. Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, and any noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWER. Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM. All temporary and permanent facilities at any time and from time to time owned or leased by or to and operated by the authority and used or usable for in connection with the collection, treatment and disposal of any sanitary sewage and acceptable industrial waste.
STORM SEWER. Sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste.
(B) In this subchapter, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
(Ord. 159, passed 2-9-2005)