For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the municipal sewer or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL PREMISES. Includes all buildings or structures which are not residential premises, as herein defined.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food or from handling, storage, and sale of foods or produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. Any liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage and garbage.
MUNICIPAL SEWER. A sewer operated by the municipality for the benefit of the citizens of the municipality generally.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer designed to serve a single user, provided that a special permit may be granted by the Superintendent of Public Utilities for such use of such sewer by one or more additional users.
PROPERLY SHRED GARBAGE. Wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be freely carried under flow conditions normally prevailing in municipal sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in dimension.
RESIDENTIAL PREMISES. Includes all buildings or structures occupied and used exclusively as a house by not more than two families.
SANITARY SEWAGE. Water carried wastes from toilets, sinks, baths, household laundries, tubs, and/or similar facilities.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sanitary sewage.
SEWAGE. Any combination of water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT. Any arrangement of devices or structures for treating sewage in order to eliminate or reduce its odor or other harmful or obnoxious characteristics.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying storm water, sanitary sewage, or both.
SEWER OUTLET. Any termination of a sewer system into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body, surface, or ground water.
SUPERINTENDENT. The official charged with the duty of superintending the municipal sewer system, or his or her authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, or other liquids, which are removable by laboratory filtering.
SYSTEM SEWER. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
WATERCOURSE. Any natural or artificial channel in which a flow of surface water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(Prior Code, § 15-4-1)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see SDCL Chapter 9-18, § 9-32-9