The following words, terms and phrases, as used in this article,
shall have the following meanings given herein. When not inconsistent
with the context, words used in the singular include the plural, words
in the plural include the singular, and words used in the present
tense include the future. The word "shall" is always mandatory.
ACT 537 PLAN
The Township's Official Plan as defined in the Pennsylvania
Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535 (1965),
No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 to 750.20a ("Sewage
Facilities Act" or "Act 537").
DEPARTMENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
GRINDER PUMP
Any electric motor-driven, submersible, centrifugal pump
capable of macerating all material found in normal domestic sanitary
sewage, including reasonable amounts of objects such as plastics,
sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, rubber and the like, to a fine
slurry, and pumping this material through a small diameter discharge.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the Township upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sewage
shall or may be discharged.
MUNICIPALITY
The Board of Commissioners of Lower Moreland Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania.
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY
The Lower Moreland Township Authority.
OFFICIAL PLAN REVISION
A change in the Township's Act 537 Plan to provide for
additional or newly identified future or existing sewage facilities
needs, as defined fully in Section 1 of the Sewage Facilities Act,
35 P.S. § 750.1.
PROPERTY OWNER
Any person or entity vested with ownership, legal or equitable,
sole or partial, of any property located in the Township.
SEWAGE
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life or to the use of
water for domestic water supply or for recreation or any substance
which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. §§ 691.1
to 691.1001, as amended.
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