CHAPTER 52: SEWAGE CONNECTIONS; PLUMBERS
Section
Connections and Plumbers
   52.01   Definitions
   52.02   Permit needed
   52.03   Application for permit
   52.04   Sewage connections
   52.05   Separate connections
   52.06   Costs and expenses
   52.07   Ditches
   52.08   Plumbers
   52.09   Connection
   52.10   Rules and regulations governing sewers and connection sewers
   52.11   Inspection
   52.12   Sanitary and safe operation
   52.13   Excavations
   52.14   Plumbing Inspector
   52.15   Notice
   52.16   Adoption of additional rules and regulations
Occupied Buildings and Connections
   52.30   Definitions
   52.31   Occupied buildings
   52.32   Privies, cesspools and the like
   52.33   Connections generally
   52.34   Discharge of sanitary sewage
   52.35   Connection required
 
   52.99   Penalty
CONNECTIONS AND PLUMBERS
§ 52.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   AUTHORITY. The Tatamy Borough Sewer Authority, a Pennsylvania municipal authority.
   BOROUGH. The Borough of Tatamy, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, a political subdivision, acting by and through its Borough Council or in appropriate case, by and through its authorized representatives.
   BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the sewage drainage system of any structure starting from a point three feet outside of the outer walls of the structured building to the lateral of a sewer system.
   IMPROVED PROPERTY. Any property located within the borough upon which there is an erected structure (occupied building) intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy, for any purpose whatsoever by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste shall be or may be discharged.
   INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, or form of energy ejected or escaping the course of any industrial, manufacturing or trade or business process or in the course of development, recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
   LATERAL. The part of the sewer system extending from the sewer to the curb line or, if there shall be no curb line, to the property line, or if no such lateral shall be provided, then LATERAL shall mean that portion of or place in the sewer which is provided for connection of any building sewer.
   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 erected within 150 feet from the sewer system, 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.
   OWNER. Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
   PERSON. Any individual, partnership, company, association, society, corporation or other group or entity.
   SANITARY SEWAGE. Normal water-carried household and toilet waste discharged from any improved property.
   SEWER. Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system, used or useable for sewage collection purposes.
   SEWER SYSTEM. All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting, pumping, transporting, treating and/or disposing sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste, situated in the borough.
   STREET or HIGHWAY. Includes any highway, street, road, lane, alley, court or public square.
(Ord. 1-159-1993, passed 9-7-1993)
§ 52.02 PERMIT NEEDED.
   No person shall uncover, connect with, make any opening into or use, alter or disturb, in any manner, any sewer or the sewer system, without first making application for and securing a permit, in writing, from this borough or its designee.
(Ord. 1-159-1993, passed 9-7-1993) Penalty, see § 52.99
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