(A) It shall be unlawful for any person owning any property in the borough accessible to the sewer system to erect, construct, 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 § 52.31, or otherwise at any time to erect, construct, use or maintain pipe, conduit, drain or other facility for the discharge of sanitary sewage into the gutters of the borough, the storm sewers of the borough, or upon public or private property or otherwise, except into the sewer system.
(B) Any person who erects, constructs, uses, or maintains a privy or 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 subchapter, shall be deemed and shall be declared to be erecting, constructing or maintaining a nuisance, which nuisance the borough is hereby authorized and directed to abate in the manner provided by law.
(C) No privy, vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used or maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a sewer, which shall be required under § 52.31(A) to be connected to a sewer. Every such privy, vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned, and shall be cleansed and filled at the expense of the owner of such improved property, and any such privy, vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle not so abandoned, cleansed and filled, shall constitute a nuisance, and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law, at the expense of the owner of such improved property.
(Ord. 2-159-1993, passed 9-7-1993) Penalty, see § 52.99