For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY. This chapter shall be administered by the Greene County Board of Health through its Health Officer and his or her authorized representatives.
BUILDING SITES. All areas, regardless of acreage, situated within Greene County, upon which are located residential, business, recreational, or other buildings.
DWELLING. Any house or place used or intended to be used as a place of seasonal or permanent human habitation or for sleeping for one or more families.
FLOOD PLAIN. That area so designated on the Federal Flood Insurance Rate Maps, those designated areas determined by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, or those designated areas determined by the Greene County Health Department, to be within the contours defined as the 100-year flood.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. The Greene County Health Department, which is the full time county health department and includes the Greene County Board of Health, the Greene County Health Officer, and authorized representatives of the Health Officer.
HEALTH OFFICER. The County Health Officer or his or her duly authorized representative.
HOLDING TANK. A self-contained, leak proof, watertight reservoir used for the purposes of collection and temporary storage of sewage wastes prior to proper disposal at an approved disposal facility (for example, a municipal sewage treatment plant) by a State Department of Health licensed septic tank cleaner.
MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLING UNIT. A duplex, triples, or quadriplex. More than four separate living units are considered an apartment building and do not fall under this definition.
OWNER. That person or his or her agent reported as the legal possessor of a dwelling or property.
PERMIT. A written document issued by the Health Department authorizing a person to install, construct, maintain, alter, operate, or repair a private sewage disposal system as per an approved plan, design, and specification complying with the provisions of this chapter.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, or any other legal entity, its or their successors or assigns, or agents of the aforesaid.
PLANNED COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. A building, structure, or grouping of buildings or structures, constructed predominately for commercial or industrial uses, located on a lot or group of contiguous lots held under single, joint, or common ownership or lease.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. A group of buildings constructed for residential use, including approved ancillary commercial use, located on a lot or group of contiguous lots held under single, joint, or common ownership.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM FAILURE. A system which exhibits one or more of the following:
(1) The system refuses to accept sewage at the rate of design application thereby interfering with the normal use of plumbing fixtures;
(2) The effluent discharge exceeds the absorptive capacity of the soil, resulting in ponding, seepage, or other discharge of the effluent to the ground surface or to surface waters; or
(3) The effluent is discharged from the system causing contamination of a potable water supply, ground water, or surface waters.
PUBLIC SEWER. Any conduit for sewage constructed, installed, maintained, operated, owned, or defined as such by a municipality, taxing district, or a corporation or organization possessing a Certificate of Territorial Authority issued by the Indiana Public Service Commission and established for that purpose. A system of conduits installed for the purpose of carrying surface water runoff and subsoil drainage shall not be considered a public sewer under this definition.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. Any sewage disposal system not constructed, installed, maintained, operated, and owned by a municipality, a taxing district, or a corporation or organization possessing a Certificate of Territorial Authority issued by the Indiana Public Service Commission and established for that purpose.
RISER. A vertical port of cylindrical concrete 20 to 24 inches in diameter extending to the ground surface with a gas tight seal.
SANITARY PRIVY. A fly-tight, rodent proof privy for the disposal of body waste as presented in State Department of Health Bulletin S.E. 11, and amendments thereto, except that the pit or vault shall be an approved septic tank with the outlet sealed.
SEPTIC TANK ABSORPTION FIELD SYSTEM. Includes the sewer from the house to the septic tank, the septic tank, the septic tank effluent sewer, the pump, pump tank and related items as may be required, the distribution box(es), and the underground absorption seepage lines.
SEWAGE. The water-carried waste derived from ordinary living processes, including, but not limited to, human excrete and waste water derived from water closets, urinals, laundries, sinks, utensil washing machines, bathing facilities, or similar facilities or appliances.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. Any arrangement of devices and structures used for receiving, treating, disposing, or storing of sewage.
SEWER. A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage.
SOIL INVENTORY AND EVALUATION REPORT. The written report of a soil scientist giving characteristics and qualities of the soil that affect the suitability for absorbing waste from private sewage disposal systems, including, but not limited to, soil permeability, soil loading rate, percolation rate, ground water level, depth to bedrock, flooding hazards, and slope.
SOIL LOADING RATE. The allowable rate of application of septic tank effluent to the soil expressed in gallons per day per square foot of trench bottom area.
SOIL SCIENTIST. An individual qualified, as determined by the Indiana State Department of Health, to characterize the qualities of the soil that affect the suitability for absorbing waste from private onsite sewage disposal systems and to properly prepare the appropriate SOIL INVENTORY AND EVALUATION REPORT.
(Ord. 1992-1, passed 5-6-1992)