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Authority–the Sewer Authority of the Township of Plains as originally organized and as presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the Township Commissioners of Plains Township and to which has been referred by the Township Commissioners of Plains Township the specific project of sewers.
Occupied building–each single dwelling unit, household unit, flat or apartment unit, store, shop, office, business or industrial unit or family unit contained within any structure and intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage is, or may be, discharged. [Ord. 4/2/1981]
Person–an individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
Property accessible to the sewer system–improved property which adjoins, abuts on or is adjacent to the sewer system.
Sanitary sewage–the normal water carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
Sewer system–refers to the public sanitary sewer collection system, together with appurtenant facilities about to be acquired and constructed for a portion of the Township and any improvements, additions or extensions that hereafter may be made thereto by the Authority or the Township to any part or parts of any or all thereof.
Township–Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, or the duly constituted and elected Township officials therefor.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 1; as amended by Ord. 4/2/1981)
1. All persons owning any occupied building now erected upon property in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60 days after written notice to such persons from the Township.
2. All persons owning any property in the Township accessible to the sewer system upon which an occupied building is hereafter erected shall, at the time of the erection of such building and at their own expense, connect the same with the sewer system.
3. All persons owning an occupied building upon property in the Township which hereafter becomes accessible to the sewer system shall, at their own expense, connect such building with the sewer system within 60 days after notice to do so from the Township.
4. Where more than one occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, is contained in a separate structure, a single common connection to the lateral of the sewer system may be permitted for accommodating all units contained in such structure, except that separate connections shall be required for each semi-detached or row-type house or structure.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 2)
It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in the Township accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct or use or maintain or cause to be erected, constructed, used or maintained, any privy, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or other receptacle on such premises for receiving sanitary sewage after the expiration of the particular period specified in § 18-202 hereof, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain any pipe conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the Township, the storm sewers of the Township or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 3)
Any person who erects, constructs, uses or maintains a privy, cesspool, sinkhole or septic tank on any property accessible to the sewer system, or otherwise erects, constructs, uses or maintains any pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage in violation of this Part 2, shall be deemed and shall be declared to be erecting, constructing and maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance the Township is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner provided by law.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 4)
No connection shall be made to the sewer system, except in compliance with the ordinances and resolutions, as well as such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be enacted, adopted, approved or promulgated by the Township of the Authority.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 5)
After the expiration of the particular periods specified in § 18-202 of this Part 2, if any owner of an occupied building on property in the Township accessible to the sewer system shall have failed to connect such property with the sewer system as required by said § 18-202, the Township shall cause to be served on the owner of such property so failing to connect to said sewer system, and also upon the occupants of the building in question, a copy of this Part and a written or printed notice requiring such connection to be made, and such notice shall further state that its requirements shall be complied with within 30 days from the date thereof.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 6)
The provisions of this Part are declared to be for the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township and persons violating any provisions of this Part 2, upon conviction thereof before any magisterial district judge of Luzerne County, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense. Each occupied building, as hereinbefore defined, whether or not the owners thereof shall be permitted to connect two or more occupied buildings or units by a single common connection to a lateral of the sewer system or shall be required to make separate connections for each occupied building or unit, shall constitute a separate and distinct unit under the provision of this Part 2 and the persons owning occupied buildings, consisting of multiple units contained in the same structure, who violate any of the provisions of this Part 2, shall be subject to the aforesaid fine for each and every one of such occupied buildings or units which are in violation of the provisions of this Part 2.
(Ord. –/–/1976, § 7; as amended by A.O.)
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