(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING DRAIN. The 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 a building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
COMMERCIAL. All sewer users except residential.
ENGINEER. The City Engineer of the City of Glendale, his or her authorized assistants and inspectors.
GARBAGE. All putrescible waste, except sewage and body wastes, including wastes accumulated of animals, food, or vegetable matter, and including wastes that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in, or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, and vegetables, and shall include all the wastes or accumulations of vegetable matter of residences, restaurants, hotels, and places where food is prepared for human consumption. The term GARBAGE shall not include recognized industrial by-products, nor shall it include cans, boxes, cartons, paper, or other objects which may or may not have food or other organic material of any nature in or adhering thereto.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE. The liquid wastes from any non-governmental user of publicly owned treatment works defined in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1972, Office of Management and Budget, under the following divisions:
(a) Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing;
(b) Division B - Mining;
(c) Division D - Manufacturing;
(d) Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Service; and
(e) Division I - Services.
MANAGER. The authorized representative of the City of Glendale.
MAY. Is permissive.
NATURAL OUTLET. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH. The acidity or alkalinity of sanitary or industrial waste. This is equal to the hydrogen ion concentration as measured by the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in gram per liter of solution.
PLUMBING REGULATIONS. The state plumbing laws, rules, and regulations governing plumbing and water supply, as adopted by the State Board of Health, State Bureau of Labor rules and regulations, and city specifications, rules, and regulations.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sewer privately owned and constructed in conformance with the provisions hereof.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The waste from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to the degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, consisting of all conduits placed or accepted by the city for public usage.
RESIDENTIAL. One family unit under a single roof.
SANITARY SEWER. A sewer which carries sewage and from which storm, surface, and ground waters are prohibited.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. Any arrangement of devices or structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS. All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
SHALL. Is mandatory.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN. A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial waters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(B) Words used in the present tense shall include the future, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
(Ord. 240, passed 5-13-1975)