Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) "Village" means the Village of Centerburg, Ohio.
(b) "Administrator" means the Village Administrator of the Village.
(c) "Inspector" means any person or individual appointed by the Village Administrator to inspect the construction of sanitary sewers, building sewers, and the connection of building sewers to sanitary sewers.
(d) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, and disposing of sanitary sewage and other wastes at a treatment plant owned and operated by the Village.
(e) "Waste water treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices or structures used for treating sewage.
(f) "Sanitary sewage" means a combination of water carried waste from residences, business buildings, institutions, commercial and industrial establishments contributed by reason of human occupancy.
(g) "Industrial wastes" means the liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes. trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(h) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(i) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes 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.
(j) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary sewage and industrial wastes and to which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(k) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building and conveys the same to the building sewer beginning at a point three feet outside the face of the building.
(1). "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer and a connection thereto.
(m) "Public sewer" means a sewer which is owned and controlled by the Village.
(n) "Private sewer" means a sanitary sewer which is not owned by the Village but which is connected to the sanitary sewer system and, therefore, under the control of the Village.
(o) "B.O.D. (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
(p) "Suspended solids" means the solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(q) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen In grams per liter of solution.
(r) "Normal sewage" means a sewage or waste, which when analyzed, shown by weight a daily average of not more than 2000 pounds (240 parts per million) of suspended solids and not more than 1667 pounds (200 parts per million) of B.O.D.
(s) "Cooling water" means the water discharged from any system of condensation, air condition, cooling, refrigeration, or other. It shall be free from odor and oil and shall contain no polluting substances.
(t) "Shall" is mandatory, and the "may" is permissive.
(Ord. 1988-10. Passed 8-1-88.)