For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACT 537. The Bedminster Township official plan as defined in the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 135 (1965), No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 through 750.20a (“Sewage Facilities Act” or “Act 537”).
AUTHORITY. The Bedminster Municipal Authority, as defined by the Municipality Authorities Act of 2001 (June 19, 2001, P.L. 287, No. 22, and as amended thereafter, 53 Pa.C.S. §§ 5601 et seq.).
DEPARTMENT. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
GRINDER PUMP. Any electric-motor-driven, submersible, centrifugal pump capable of macerating all material found in normal domestic sanitary sewage, including reasonable amounts of objects, such as plastics, sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, rubber and the like, to a fine slurry, and pumping this material through a small diameter discharge.
IMPROVED PROPERTY. Any property within the township upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human being or animals and from which structure sewage shall or may be discharged.
OFFICIAL PLAN REVISION. A change in the township’s Act 537 Plan to provide for additional or newly identified future of existing sewage facility’s needs, as defined fully in § 1 of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (Act 537), 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 et seq.
PROPERTY OWNER. Any person, combination of persons, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or a combination thereof, trust, or any other entities vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property located in the township.
SEWAGE. Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical to the public health or to an animal or aquatic life or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation or any substance which constitutes pollution under the Clean Stream Law, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1 through 691.1001, as amended.
TOWNSHIP. Bedminster Township and/or its Board of Supervisors.
(Ord. 182, passed 5-9-2007)