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Blossburg Borough, PA Code of Ordinances
CODE OF ORDINANCES BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG Tioga County Pennsylvania
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Chapter 1 Administration and Government
Chapter 2 Animals
Chapter 3 [Reserved]
Chapter 4 Buildings
Chapter 5 Code Enforcement
Chapter 6 Conduct
Chapter 7 Fire Prevention and Fire Protection
Chapter 8 Floodplains
Chapter 9 [Reserved]
Chapter 10 Health and Safety
Chapter 11 Housing
Chapter 12 [Reserved]
Chapter 13 Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations
Chapter 14 [Reserved]
Chapter 15 Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 16 Parks and Recreation
Chapter 17 [Reserved]
Chapter 18 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
Chapter 19 [Reserved]
Chapter 20 Solid Waste
Chapter 21 Streets and Sidewalks
Chapter 22 Subdivision and Land Development
Chapter 23 [Reserved]
Chapter 24 Taxation; Special
Chapter 25 Trees
Chapter 26 Water
Chapter 27 Zoning
Appendix
Table of Disposition of All Ordinances
Table of Disposition of Significant Resolutions
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A.   Public Sewers
§18-101.   Definitions.
   Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part shall be as follows:
   Authority–Blossburg Municipal Authority, a Pennsylvania municipality authority.
   Building sewer–the extension from the sewer drainage system of any structure to the lateral of a sewer.
   Borough–the Borough of Blossburg, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, a municipal ity of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.   
   Improved property–any property located within this Borough 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 sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
   Industrial establishment–any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure used or intended for use in the operation of one business enterprise for manufactur ing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any product, commodity or article or from which any process waste, as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
   Industrial wastes–any and all wastes discharged from any industrial establishment, other than sanitary sewage.
   Lateral–that part of the sewer system extending from sewer to the curb line or, if there shall be no curb line, to the property line 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.
   Owner–any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
   Person–any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other legal entity.
   Sanitary sewage–normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged from any improved property, including such ground, surface or stormwater as may be present.
   Sewer–any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
   Sewer system–all facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, situate in or adjacent to this Borough and owned, maintained and operated by the Authority.
(Ord. 185, 4/25/1968, Art. I, §1.01)
§18-102.   Sewer Connections Required.
   The owner of any improved property benefitted, improved and accommodated by any sewer shall connect such improved property therewith, in such manner as this Borough and the Authority may require, within 45 days after notice to such owner from this Borough to make such connection, for the purpose of discharge of all sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from such improved property, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Borough or the Authority, from time to time. Conduits for industrial waste shall not be connected to the sewer system and industrial waste shall not be deposited in the sewer system without a prior written agreement among the Borough, the Authority, and the industrial establishment, specifying the probable quality and quantity of such wastes and monitoring procedures.
(Ord. 185, 4/25/1968, Art. II, §2.01; as amended by Ord. 311, 2/3/1986)
§18-103.   All Sanitary Sewage and Industrial Wastes, Following Connection, to be Conducted into Sewer.
   All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be required under §18-102, shall be conducted into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by this Borough or the Authority, from time to time.
(Ord. 185, April 25, 1968, Art. II, §2.02)
§18-104.   Unlawful Deposit and Discharge of Sanitary Sewage and Industrial Waste.    
   1.   No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within this Borough any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of §18-102.
   2.   No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within this Borough any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of §18-102, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to this Borough and the Authority.
(Ord. 185, 4/25/1968, Art. II, §2.03)
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