1. The owner of any improved property adjoining or adjacent to or whose principal building is within 150 feet of the sewer system, shall connect such improved property therewith, in such manner as the Township may require, within 60 days after notice to such owner 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 the Township, from time to time.
2. All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer as required under subsection .1 above, shall be conducted into a sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by the Township, from time to time.
3. No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within the Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of subsection .1 above. No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within the Township any sanitary sewage or industrial wastes in violation of subsection .1 above, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to the Township.
4. No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used and maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer or which shall be required under subsection .1 above to be connected to a sewer.
5. Every such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank, or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of the Township, shall be cleansed and filled under the direction and supervision of the Township; and any such privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank, or similar receptacle not so abandoned, shall constitute a nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
6. No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank, or similar receptacle shall be connected with a sewer.
7. Notice by the Township to make connection to a sewer, referred to in subsection .1 above, shall consist of a copy of this Part, including any amendments and/or supplements at the time in effect, or a summary of each Section hereof, and a written or printed document requiring the connection in accordance with the provisions of this Part and specifying that such connection shall be made within 60 days from the date such notice is given. Such notice may be given at any time after a Sewer is in place which can receive and convey sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment and disposal from the particular improved property. Such notice shall be served upon the owner either by personal service or by registered mail or by such other method as at the time may be provided by law.
(Ord. 97-7, 5/27/1997, § 12.26)