1114.03 DEFINITIONS.

   The words and terms used in this Chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall have the following meaning:

   (a)    Best Management Practices (BMP's): Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to storm water. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.

   (b)    City or Community: The City of Dover, Ohio, its officers, consulting engineer, employees, designated representatives, boards and commissions.

   (c)    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The United States EPA and/or the State of Ohio EPA, or any duly authorized official of said agencies.

   (d)    Floatable Material: In general, this term means any foreign matter that may float or remain suspended in the water column and includes, but is not limited to, plastic, aluminum cans, wood products, bottles and paper products.

   (e)    Hazardous Material: Any material including any substance, waste or combination thereof, which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, safety, property or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of or otherwise managed.

   (f)    lllicit Discharge: As defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26 (b)(2), means any discharge to an MS4 that is not composed entirely of storm water; except for those discharges to an MS4 pursuant to a NPDES permit or as otherwise noted in Section 1114.07 of this Chapter.    

   (g)    Illegal Connection: Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illicit discharge to enter the MS4.

   (h)    Municipal (Separate) Stormwater Sewer System (MS4): As defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.26(b)(8), a municipal separate stormwater sewer system means a conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal street, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels or storm drains that is:

      (1)    Owned or operated by a state, city, town, borough, county, parish, district, municipality, township, district, association or other public body that was created by, or pursuant to, state law and that has jurisdiction over sewage and/or industrial wastes, including special districts under state law such as a sewer district or similar entity, or a Native American tribe or an authorized Native American tribal organization, or a designated and approved management agency under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act that discharge to waters of the United States;

      (2)    Designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water;

      (3)    Not a combined sewer; and

      (4)    Not part of a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), as defined at 40 C.F.R. 122.2.

   (i)    National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Discharge Permit: A permit issued by the EPA, or by a state under authority delegated pursuant to 33 USC Section 1342(b), that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable to an individual, group or general area-wide basis.

   (j)    Off-Lot Discharging Home Sewage Treatment System: A system designed to treat home sewage on-site and discharge treated wastewater effluent off of the property into a storm water or surface water conveyance or system.

   (k)    Owner/Operator: Any individual, agent, firm, association, organization, corporation, or partnership or other entity recognized by law that alone, jointly, or severally with others:

      (1)    Has legal or equitable title to any premises, building, structure, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or

      (2)    Has charge, care or control of any premises, building, structure, dwelling or dwelling unit, as agent of the owner or as executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the beneficial owner.

      The person(s) shown on the records of the Tuscarawas County Recorder to be the owner(s) of a particular property shall be presumed to be the person(s) in control of that property.

   (1)    Pollutant: Anything that causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, solvents, oil and other automotive fluids, non-hazardous liquid and solid wastes, yard wastes, refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter or other discarded or abandoned objects, floatable materials, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hazardous materials, wastes, sewage, dissolved and particulate metals, animal wastes, residues that result from constructing a structure and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.

   (m)    Premises: A lot, plot or parcel of land with its appurtenances, building, dwellings and/or structures thereon, and including any yards.

   (n)    Storm Water: Any surface flow, runoff and/or drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation that results from such precipitation.

   (o)    Wastewater: The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of a source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.

      (Ord. 48-21. Passed 12-6-21.)