(a) In this chapter, the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “Board” means the board of county commissioners.
(c) “Bonds” means notes, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness or obligations.
(d) “Commission” means the Frederick County Metropolitan Commission created by Chapter 609 of the Acts of 1968, the powers and functions of which have been transferred to the county by an action of the Board pursuant to § 2-2-23 of this Code.
(e) “County” means board of county commissioners of Frederick County, a body politic and corporate of the State of Maryland.
(f) (1) “Drainage system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the board for the operation thereof, used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with:
(i) The collection, control, distribution, carrying away, or disposal of surface waters, and any integral part thereof, including (without limitation) storm water drainage;
(ii) The prevention and control of erosion, and any integral part thereof; and
(iii) The management and control of sedimentation and any integral part thereof.
(2) “Drainage system” does not include drainage facilities which are part of a water system or sewerage system and which are not part of a system having the primary purpose of draining surface waters.
(g) “Frederick County” means the geographic area within the corporate limits of Frederick County.
(h) “Project” means any water system, sewerage system, drainage system, or solid waste system, and any combination or part or parts thereof owned, constructed, or operated by the county under the provisions of this chapter.
(i) “Service area” means the area within Frederick County in which the board may exercise power and authority under this chapter in accordance with the provisions of § 2-13-5 of this chapter.
(j) “Sewage” means the water-carried wastes created in and carried, or to be carried, away from residences, hotels, schools, hospitals, industrial establishments, commercial establishments, or any other private or public building or location, together with such wastes as may be present.
(k) “Sewerage system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the collection, carrying away, treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, or disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, and any integral part thereof, including sewage treatment plants, disposal fields, lagoons, pumping stations, drainage ditches, intercepting ditches, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, lateral sewers, force mains, pipes, pipe lines, conduits, equipment, appurtenances, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the board for the operation thereof; a sewerage system may include related drainage facilities.
(l) “Solid waste” means any garbage or refuse that is or may be disposed of in or through a solid waste system.
(m) “Solid waste system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the collection, disposal, transportation, processing, recycling, or treating of solid waste, including solid waste treatment plants, refuse disposal facilities, solid waste acceptance facilities, solid waste disposal systems, leachate treatment facilities, processing facilities, recycling facilities, rubble landfills, sanitary landfills, transfer stations, waste-to-energy facilities, and water treatment plants and all properties, rights, easements and franchises related thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the board for the operation thereof.
(n) “Water system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the supply or distribution of water and any integral part thereof, including water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, dams, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, hydrants, meters, valves and equipment, appurtenances, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the board for the operation thereof; a water system may include related drainage facilities.
(Code 1959, § 10A-1; 1979, Chapter 723, § 1; 1991, Chapter 194, § 1)