For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD. Board of Directors of the Town of Centerville Department of Storm Water Management.
CODE. Town of Centerville, Indiana, Code of Ordinances.
DEPARTMENT. Centerville Department of Storm Water Management.
DRAIN. Any sewer, tile, ditch, stream or other storm water conveyance channel or conduit.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT (ERU). A unit value equal to the average amount of equivalent impervious area of a residential property within the town and established at 3,536 square feet. It is also the basis for calculating the proper assessment of storm water charges to all users of the storm water system.
IMPERVIOUS AREA. Real property that has been paved and/or covered with buildings and materials which include, but are not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rooftop, blacktop and compacted gravel, such that the natural infiltration of water into the soil is prevented.
NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. All properties not encompassed within the definition of residential property shall be defined as non-residential property. NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY shall include, but not necessarily be limited to:
(1) Agricultural property;
(2) Apartment and condominium property;
(3) Mobile home parks;
(4) Commercial property;
(5) Industrial property;
(6) Institutional property;
(7) Governmental property;
(8) Churches;
(9) Schools;
(10) Federal, state and local government owned property; and
(11) Any other property not mentioned herein and not specifically defined as either residential property or vacant residential property.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. A lot or parcel or contiguous lots or parcels of single ownership of real property on which a building or mobile home is situated, which building contains a group of rooms forming a single inhabitable dwelling unit with facilities that are used or are intended to be used primarily for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
STORM SEWER.
(1) A sewer designed or intended to convey only storm water, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage, and not intended for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(2) The portion of a sewer intended to carry storm water only, which begins at the grating or opening where water enters said sewer, through the sewer and any other conduits to the outlet structure where water enters a channel, natural watercourse or combined sewer.
STORM WATER. The chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen that is produced from atmospheric clouds as rain, snow, sleet and hail.
STORM WATER SYSTEM. All constructed facilities, structures and natural watercourses under the ownership, and/or control of the town and/or the Department, used for collecting and conducting storm water to, through and from drainage areas to the point of final outlet, including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: inlets; conduits and appurtenant features; creeks; channels; catch basins; ditches; streams; culverts; retention or detention basins; and pumping stations; and excluding therefrom any part of the system of drains and watercourses under the jurisdiction of the county’s Drainage Board.
STORM WATER UTILITY CUSTOMER/USER. The owner of a lot or parcel of residential property, non-residential property or vacant residential property.
STORM WATER UTILITY USER FEE. A charge imposed on users of the town’s public storm water facilities and storm water system.
(Prior Code, § 54.01) (Ord. 2004-02, passed 5-11-2004)