For the purpose of this chapter, the terms "sanitary sewage" and "industrial wastes" are defined as follows:
(a) "Sanitary sewage" means the waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, household laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, cuspidors, refrigerator drains, drinking fountains and stable floor drains.
(b) "User Charge" shall mean the charge assessed users of the sewage system to recover the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the sewage collection and sewage treatment system, and the cost of rendering bills and collection sewer service charges.
(c) "Operation and Maintenance Costs" shall mean the costs incurred in the act of keeping all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage, in a good state of repair and functioning properly including the replacement of said facilities when necessary.
(d) "Replacement" shall mean expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(e) "Debt Service" shall mean the funds used for the retirement of and interest on bonds and/or notes authorized and issued by the City of Bucyrus, Ohio, to construct sewage system facilities.
(f) "Sewer Service Charge" shall mean the total charge levied against users of the sewage system for sewer service. The charge shall include user charges plus the cost of debt service.
(g) "Residential" means a principal family residence or habitation classified as a single family, multifamily, or apartment dwelling that discharges domestic sanitary wastewater having characteristics of 250 milligrams per liter biochemical demand and 200 milligrams per liter suspended solids into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(h) "Commercial" means retail or wholesale business establishments that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works, and facility.
(i) "Industrial" shall include users discharging waste resulting from manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power-driven machines and material handling equipment.
(j) "Institutional/Governmental" means hospitals, nursing homes, schools, city, county, state or federal buildings or facilities that discharge wastewater into the public wastewater treatment system, works and facility.
(Ord. 64-99. Passed 10-19-99.)