§ 18-301.   Definitions.
   AUTHORITY - the Marysville Borough Authority, a municipality authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, approved May 2, 1945, P.L. 382, as amended and supplemented.
   BOROUGH - the Borough of Marysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania municipality, acting by and through its Council.
   B.O.D. - (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) - the quantity of oxygen, expressed in part per million (ppm) by weight, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for 5 days and 20° centigrade.
   COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT - any structure or any portion thereof intended to be used wholly or in part for the purposes of carrying on a trade, business or profession or for social, amusement, religious, educational, charitable or public uses, and which contains plumbing for kitchen, toilet or washing facilities.
   COUNCIL - the group of elected officials acting as the governing body of the Borough.
   IMPROVED PROPERTY - any property 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 is or may be discharged.
   INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT - any improved property used wholly or in part for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article.
   INDUSTRIAL WASTE -any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or form of energy rejected or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or from the development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
   OCCUPIED PROPERTY - a property which is not "vacant" as the term "vacant" is defined under this Part.
   PERSON - any individual, firm, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or group.
   pH - the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration expressed in moles per liter and indicates the degree of acidity of alkalinity of a substance.
   SANITARY SEWAGE - the normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any-improved property.
   SEWER - any collecting sewer in the Borough forming a part of the sewer system.
   SEWER SYSTEM - all facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes situated in or adjacent to the Borough and owned by or leased by the Borough, including the sewage treatment plant, pumping stations and the intercepting sewers, extensions and other sewer facilities heretofore or hereafter acquired or constructed by the Authority and leased to the Borough.
   SUSPENDED SOLIDS - solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtration.
   TOXIC SUBSTANCE - any poisonous substance.
   VACANT PROPERTY - a unit of real property in which the owner or lessee has no reasonable intent of occupying same in the foreseeable future and from which all furniture and evidence of habitation have been removed; a vacancy for seasonal, recreational or vacation residency purposes shall not be deemed a vacancy hereunder. In the case of leased property, in order to be determined vacant, all leases for such unit of property must be terminated and not in force and effect and the landlord shall have complied with Ord. 238 of the Borough of Marysville relative to reports required by lessor. Further, with respect to mobile homes the following rules shall apply:
      A.   Relative to situations where the mobile home pad is owned by the landlord and is leased to a tenant, but the mobile home is owned by the tenant, then a vacancy shall exist only during such times as the pad is vacant.
      B.   Relative to situations where the landlord owns both the pad and the mobile home and leases both to a tenant, then a vacancy shall occur as otherwise defined above in the subsection.
A determination of vacancy shall be made by the Borough Manager, subject to appeal by the property owner to Borough Council.
(Ord. 398, 6/11/1987, §1)