Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) “Sewage works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(b) “Superintendent” means the Superintendent of the Municipal Sewage Works of the Village of Edgerton, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(c) “Inspector” means any person or persons duly authorized by the Superintendent to inspect and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection to the public sewer system.
(d) “Sewage” means a combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(e) “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(f) “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
(g) “Combined sewer” means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(h) “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(i) “Industrial wastes” means the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(j) “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 the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(k) “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(l) “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
(m) “Shall” is mandatory; “may” is permissive.
(Ord. 354. Passed 10-1-78.)