For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN. Defined by the State Plumbing Specialty Code, and extends from a building and terminates five feet outside of a building.
BUILDING SEWER. Defined by the State Plumbing Specialty Code, and is the extension from the building drain to the interceptor tank.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING. All premises, except those designated as public buildings by the City Council, that are used for any purpose other than as a residence.
COMMUNITY SEWER SYSTEM. All public sewers operated under city authority.
EFFLUENT SEWER. The part of the community sewer system located between an interceptor tank and a street sewer.
INTERCEPTOR TANK. A tank installed between the building sewer and the community sewer. INTERCEPTOR TANKS are city property and part of the community sewer system.
ON-SITE SYSTEM. A septic tank and drainfield, or mounded or other collection, treatment, and disposal system, that is initiated and completed on private property and is not connected to the community sewer system.
PERSON. Any individual, company, firm, association, society, corporation, or group.
PUBLIC BUILDING. Any premises or part of any premises used primarily for public purposes and designated a public building by the City Council.
PUBLIC SEWER. All community sewer systems.
PUBLIC TREATMENT WORKS. Any treatment works owned and operated by the city.
RESIDENCE. A structure used primarily for residential purposes.
SANITATION MANAGER. The Chairperson of the Sewer Board of the city, or the individual authorized to act on behalf of the city.
SEWAGE. Water-carried human wastes, including kitchen, bath, and laundry wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, or other places, together with any groundwater infiltration, surface waters, or industrial waste as may be present.
SLUGS. Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes and other polluted waters.
(Prior Code, § 50.02) (Ord. 420, passed 10-5-1987)