1.   The Borough or its duly authorized representatives will make all connections to the sewer and water mains and shall provide for the furnishing, installation and maintenance of all service lines from the sewer and water mains to the curb line. (Curb line means either the road side of an established curb or the equivalent thereof.) All service lines from the curb line to the structure to be served shall be installed by the owner or person to be served at his expense and shall be of a pipe approved by the Borough. No service connection facility between the curb line and the structure to be served shall be covered up in the process of installation until inspected and approved by the Borough or its duly authorized representative. Owners or persons making new or replacement water line connections shall provide a meter pit and meter at the curb line in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Borough currently in effect covering such connections.

   2.   No sewer service line shall be laid in the same trench with gas lines, water lines or any other facilities of a public service company. The size of the service connection from the sewer main to the curb line will be a minimum diameter of six (6) inches and the service connection from the curb line to the structure to be served will be a pipe of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) or other type specifically authorized and approved by the Borough and with a minimum inside diameter of four (4) inches and will have a type 0 ring joint or leaded joint. Only persons properly authorized by the Borough shall be permitted to make service line connection installations. The Borough shall not be responsible for the maintenance of any service line or any other line, pipe or fixture from the curb line to the structure to be served, nor shall the Borough be responsible for any damages resulting from the escape of water or sewage from any service connection from the curb line to the structure to be served. The owner ad any other person being served at all times shall comply with all Federal, State and municipal regulations and shall make any and all changes to their service connections between the curb line and the structure to be served, which shall be required or shall be made necessary as a result of any change of grade of the main lines or otherwise.

   3.   In the event any existing service line is determined to be defective in that it is leaking sewage or allowing the infiltration of ground water, the property owner is required to replace the defective service line with a pipe of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and no other type.

(Reenacted by Ord. 88-3, 10/17/1988; as amended by Ord. 98-4, 12/7/1998, §1; as amended by Ord. 2017-2, 5/1/2017)