Whenever in this chapter, the words and phrases defined in this section are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them:
A. "Agricultural drainage facilities" are defined as those facilities that are primarily intended to drain agricultural lands and for which the design criteria is that normally applied to agricultural lands.
B. "Bank of a waterway" is defined as the sloping sides of a waterway and extends to a plane three feet above the projected highwater profile as determined by the city engineer.
C. "Centerline of a waterway" is defined as a line within and along the length of a waterway at a distance from the bottom of the banks equal to one-half the distance between the bottom of the banks of a waterway.
D. "City engineer" is the City Engineer of the City of Gridley, acting either directly or through properly authorized agents, such agents acting within the scope of the particular duties delegated to them.
E. "City project" is defined as a system of works as shown on an engineering plan which has been approved by the city council. The plans to be filed in the office of the city engineer shall include a system of works designed-to provide improved drainage facilities serving the area benefitted by such project. The project may also include any existing drainage facilities within any area benefitted by such project.
F. "Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a dwelling, apartment house, or hotel designed for or occupied for living and sleeping purposes and having kitchen and toilet facilities.
G. "Engineering plan" is defined as a plan prepared by a registered civil engineer, in conformance with the policies and design criteria established by the city engineer and approved by the city council. The plan must be of sufficient detail that the positions, grade and size of the facility may be readily discernible so that unit prices may be applied to the quantities obtained therefrom to determine an estimate of the cost of the work delineated on the plan.
H. "Land subject to flooding" is defined as any area determined by the city engineer to be subject to inundation by stormwater or surface water.
I. "Levee" is defined as an elongated mound of dirt or earth paralleling and adjacent to the outer edges of a waterway.
J. "Rubbish" is defined as any substance which is not readily soluble in water.
K. "Site" is defined as all contiguous lots or parcels of land owned by or recorded as the property of a person, firm, or corporation; or in the possession of the person, firm, or corporation.
L. "Structure" is defined as anything constructed upon or attached permanently or temporarily to the land, or which has its foundation or means of support upon, under, or within the surface of the earth, including but not limited to any building, dam, wall, crib wall, bulkhead, pipe, conduit, pole, or fence.
M. "Trunk and collector drainage facilities" are defined as waterways serving 40 acres or more, natural, or manmade, improved or unimproved, which are intended to collect and transport storm drainage waters.
N. "Waterway" is defined as a river, stream, creek, watercourse, channel, swale, conduit, pipe or any depression in which water flows or may flow, and includes any property in which the city owns a fee, simple interest, or easement therein for drainage purposes. Whenever a waterway consists of any ordinary channel and, in addition thereto, an overflow channel, the waterway shall be deemed to include all property lying between the banks of the overflow channel.
O. "Zone" is defined as an area established and described pursuant to the terms of this chapter primarily to control and transport drainage, and stormwaters.
(Ord. 539 (part), 1988).