§ 6-2-2. Definition of terms.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in the chapter shall be as follows:

(1)

Sewer district. Any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently created by the City.

(2)

Sewer commission. The duly elected or appointed governing body of a sewer district in the City.

(3)

Superintendent. The sewer superintendent.

(4)

Person. Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, developer, sub-divider, or group.

(5)

Owner. Any person in title to or having any interest in real property in any of the sanitary sewer districts and their extension or extensions and/or any drainage district or districts now existing or subsequently created by the City.

(6)

Sewage. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.

(7)

Public sewer. A sewer which is controlled by the City sewer commission.

(8)

Sanitary sewer. A pipe or conduit which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

(9)

Storm sewer or storm drain. A sewer which carries storm and surface water drainage but excludes sewage, commercial-industrial and domestic wastes.

(10)

Natural outlet. Any outlet into a water course, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

(11)

Water course. A channel in which a flow of water occurs continuously or intermittently.

(12)

Sewage treatment plant. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

(13)

Building drain. That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system carrying sewage which receives discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building's sewer.

(14)

Building sewer (sometimes called house lateral). The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

(15)

Sewage. The water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, institutions, industrial establishments, and other places.

(16)

Domestic wastes. Water-borne human or animal excreta or body wastes and normal culinary, laundry, and washing wastes originating in residences.

(17)

Commercial-industrial wastes. Any and all other wastes not being domestic wastes but not limited to the wastes from commercial, laboratory and industrial processes, wastes from domestic operations or certain trade operations such as sand, grit, waste petroleum products from automotive service stations and the like, animal wastes, straw and related items from dairy or other farming operations.

(18)

Garbage. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.

(19)

Properly shredded garbage. The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than one-quarter (¼) inch in any dimension.

(20)

B.O.D. (denoting biochemical oxygen demand). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 degrees C., expressed in milligrams per liter.

(21)

ph. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter solution.

(22)

Suspended solids. Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filterings.

(Ord. of 9/12/77)