§ 160-13. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

AUTHORITY

The Lower Moreland Township Authority as presently or hereafter constituted, which has been created by the Board of Commissioners of the Township and to which has been referred, by the Board of Commissioners of the Township, the specific project of sewers.

COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTIES

Buildings or structures other than those intended for residential occupancy which do not qualify for designation as single-family dwelling units or multiple-family dwelling units.

EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT

Determined, in the case of nonresidential establishments, on the basis of one such unit for each 253 gallons per day of water consumed with respect to such establishment, such consumption to be determined by dividing the total volume of water consumed, in the four most recent consecutive quarterly periods for which water utility records of water consumption are available, by the total number of days in such quarterly periods. In determining the number of such units in excess of one with respect to such establishment, the Authority may round up to the nearest half-unit. In the event that the establishment is supplied with all or a portion of water in addition to or other than from a water utility, water consumption shall be determined from water consumption records of the water utility and/or of the water consumption records from the alternate or additional source of water. In the event that no such water consumption records are available or if, in the opinion of the Authority, any such records are inadequate to properly measure sewage flows, then the Authority shall estimate the volume of water consumption or volume of sewage flows for such quarterly periods, and such estimate shall be determinative thereof.

[Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392; amended 5-13-2014 by Ord. No. 681]

INDUSTRIAL WASTE

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, as distinct from sanitary sewage.

MIXED USE PROPERTIES

Buildings or structures consisting of units which qualify in part as single-family dwelling units or multiple-family dwelling units and which qualify in part as commercial, industrial and institutional properties.

MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT

A building or structure in the nature of an apartment building (conversions, condominiums, cooperatives, rental units) comprised of two or more living units, each of which is intended for separate residential habitation by a person or persons living singly or together as a family unit, such building or structure having a single connection with the sewer system.

OWNER

Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any property served, directly or indirectly, by the sewer system.

PERSON

Any individual firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

SANITARY SEWAGE

The normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and commercial and industrial establishments.

SEWER SYSTEM

All temporary and permanent facilities at any time and from time to time owned by or leased to and operated by the Township and used or usable for or in connection with the collection, treatment and disposal of sanitary sewage within certain portions of the Township all as described in Article I.

[Amended 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]

SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT

A room or group of rooms, structure (attached or detached), mobile home or other building or structure other than a multiple-family dwelling unit which is intended for residential habitation by a person or persons living singly or together as a family unit.

TOWNSHIP

The Township of Lower Moreland, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, or the duly constituted and elected authorities thereof.

Added 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392