(a) A system of sewers and drainage is hereby established and ordained to be constructed for the Township for the purpose of disposing of domestic drainage and sewage by disposal plants, or by a direct line of sewers to tidewater, or by incineration, or by any other form of disposal that the Board of Commissioners may hereafter set forth. The location of the sewers for that purpose shall be along and within the lines, as far as practicable, of the public roads of the Township within the territory designated as shown upon a plan or map filed this day in the office of the Board of Commissioners, which plan is hereby made a part of this chapter by reference.
(b) The Committee on Sewers and Drainage is hereby directed to cause to be prepared detailed specifications for the construction of said system of sewers, and thereupon to advertise for proposals for the construction of the same, or for any specified parts or sections thereof upon said specifications, and subject to such conditions as the Committee may prescribe, provided that it may be stipulated that the construction of said sewers shall in all particulars, both as to material and workmanship, be subject to the inspection and approval of an engineer to be appointed by the Board, and further provided that it shall be stipulated that the Board reserves the right to reject any and all proposals. The Committee shall submit to the Board all the proposals received and shall also submit a recommendation as to which of the proposals should, in the judgment of the Committee, be accepted.
(c) The advertisement provided for in this section shall be inserted in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the City of Philadelphia, and in such other newspapers as the Committee may select, and the expenses of said advertisement shall be paid by the Township Treasurer on the order of the Committee certifying to the correctness of the bills for the same.
(d) The system of sewers and drainage hereby established and designated on the maps or plans, which are hereby made a part of this chapter, shall be laid, as far as practicable, along and within the lines of the public roads of the Township as on said plans designated, and where such system diverges from such public roads, as shown on the plans, and passes through private property, the consent of the owners of such private property shall be first obtained if possible, and if not, such sewerage system shall be constructed through private property after providing for compensation in accordance with the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided.
(e) The extension of the system of sewers and drainage, hereby established, so as to cover additional portions of the Township, shall be hereafter, from time to time, adopted and approved by the Board of Township Commissioners, and when such extensions and additions have been thus approved and ordained, the same shall become a part of the system of sewers and drainage hereby established.
(f) No person shall injure, break or remove any portion of a sewer, pipe or inlet or other property belonging to the sewer and drainage system, or obstruct the mouth of any sewer or drain connection with a sewer, or interfere with the work of construction of said sewer and drainage system, or injure any of the material during construction or after completion.
(g) Provision for the construction of a system of sewers and drainage, hereby established, shall be fixed hereafter by ordinance or contract, and the same also shall be done for the disposal of the sewage and drainage collected within the Township, or for carrying the same beyond the limits thereof, as hereafter shall be determined.
(Ord. 19. Passed 6-6-16.)