For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORITY. The Tatamy Borough Sewer Authority, as presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the Council of Tatamy Borough, and to which has been referred by the borough the specific project of sewers.
BOROUGH. The Borough of Tatamy, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any structure or any portions thereof intending 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 use, and which contains plumbing for kitchen, toilet or washing facilities. Hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses and institutional dormitories shall be included in this definition.
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 or used for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy for any purpose whatsoever, or used for any purpose whatsoever, by human beings or animals, from which sanitary wastes or wastes in addition to or other than sanitary sewage is discharged and is connected or required to be connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any structure intending to be used wholly or in part for the manufacturing, fabricating, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly of any products, commodity or article.
NONRESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any establishment now or hereafter served by the sewage system other than residential establishment, and includes references to the terms commercial establishment and industrial establishment.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation, group or entity.
RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any room, group of rooms, house, trailer, structure, dwelling or enclosure intended to be occupied or occupied as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together or by persons living alone but excluding institutional dormitories.
SANITARY SEWAGE. The normal water carried household and toilet waste from residential and nonresidential establishments, as well as any solid, liquid or gaseous substance or waterborne wastes 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 which are suitable for discharge to the sewage system.
SEWER SYSTEM. All temporary and permanent facilities at any time, and from time to time, owned or leased by the authority or leased to and operated by the borough and used or usable for, or in connection with, the collection of sanitary sewage.
TAPPING FEE. A fee imposed under the authority of the Municipality Authorities Act, 53 Pa.C.S. §§ 5601 et seq. to enable the recovery of the cost of construction of the sewage collection system.
WATER SUPPLIER. The Pennsylvania-American Water Company, its successors and assigns.
(Res. 01-2013-20, passed 1-10-2013)