Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this title shall be as follows:
A. General:
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY: Either a temporary certificate of occupancy or a final certificate of occupancy issued by the Hailey building official under the applicable adopted building code, whichever occurs first.
CITY: The city of Hailey, Blaine County, Idaho, or its authorized or designated agent, representative or deputy therefor.
CITY COUNCIL: The Hailey city council.
DWELLING UNIT: A building or separate portion thereof having a single kitchen and providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provision for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation, to be occupied exclusively as a residence. Every dwelling unit shall have at least one habitable room that shall be not less than one hundred twenty (120) square feet of gross floor area, other area as specified in the international building code or international residential code.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING: A building containing two (2) or more dwelling units.
NEW CONSTRUCTION: Construction of a new residential or commercial building requiring a connection to the municipal wastewater system.
OWNER: A property owner, or his duly authorized representative, who is served or is to be served by the municipal water or wastewater system.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
PROPERTY: All property, whether privately or publicly owned, within the corporate limits of the municipal water system, excluding therefrom lands that have been dedicated for public street or highway rights of way.
STANDARDS: The city public works department standard drawings and specifications, the Idaho standards for public works construction and Idaho administrative code, IDAPA 58.01 et seq., as adopted and as amended from time to time.
B. Water:
BACK PRESSURE BACKFLOW: The backflow of a contaminated or polluted fluid due to an increased pressure above the supply pressure, which may be due to pumps, boilers or other sources of pressure.
BACK SIPHONAGE BACKFLOW: The flowing back of used, contaminated or polluted fluid from a plumbing fixture or vessel into a water supply pipe due to a pressure less than atmospheric in such pipe.
BACKFLOW: The flow other than in the intended direction of flow of any foreign liquids, gases or harmful or offensive substances into the distribution system of the city water supply as a result of reduced or reversed pressure.
BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE: A device or means which, when properly installed between the City water supply system and the terminus or ultimate point of use, will reasonably prevent backflow, and approved by USCEC, and certified by AASE, IAPMO and UPC.
COMMUNITY IRRIGATION SYSTEM: An irrigation system serving more than one property that is connected to the Municipal water system, with each property already served by a service connection.
CROSS CONNECTION: Any physical arrangement whereby the City water system is connected with any other water supply system, wastewater, drain, conduit, pool, storage reservoir or any other source of water supply which contains or may contain contaminated water, sewage or other waste or liquids which may be harmful to human health or which may deleteriously affect the City water supply.
FIRE HYDRANT: A device used to discharge water from the water main for the general purpose of fighting fires.
IRRIGATION SYSTEM: Any system designed to water lawns, gardens, shrubs, trees, etc.
METER VAULT: A device placed on the Municipal water service line at the property line which contains a shutoff valve and a water meter.
MUNICIPAL WATER SERVICE LINE: That portion of an individual water service line that runs from its connection with the water main to and including the corporation stop, meter vault, water meter and radio signaling unit that is installed on the service line. It will be installed within the limits of the public right-of-way or utility easement and, after installation, it is owned and maintained by the City.
MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM: All components and facilities that are used to deliver groundwater and surface water within the City and that are owned, operated and maintained by the City for domestic, irrigation and other uses.
PRIVATE FIRE SERVICE CONNECTION: The separate and independent connection from the water main that connects directly to a sprinkler system that has been, or is to be installed, in any building for the purpose of fire control within that specific building and said connection is to be for no other purpose. A private water service line for domestic service to the building may be installed off this service connection with a water meter plumbed in by the owner.
PRIVATE WATER SERVICE LINE: The portion of the water service line that runs from the limits of the building being served to the point of connection with the Municipal water service line.
PRIVATE WATER SYSTEM: Any water system for domestic use that is not owned, operated and maintained by the City.
SERVICE CONNECTION: Each water connection between the Municipal water system and a property.
WATER MAIN: Any pipeline owned by the City for the purpose of transportation and/or distribution of water to serve more than one private water service line or user or conveys water to a fire hydrant.
WATER METER: A device to measure water use and shall include the radio signal unit.
WATER USER: Any individual, firm, company, association, society or corporation, or group who has connected to the Municipal water system.
C. Wastewater:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L).
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the private wastewater service line, beginning five feet (5') outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING WASTEWATER SYSTEM: The complete piping system for disposing of sanitary waste, including the building drain, the private wastewater service line and the wastewater service connection.
COMBINED WASTEWATER SYSTEM: A wastewater system receiving both surface runoff and wastewater.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business, as distinct from sanitary wastewater. All sanitary waste that is combined with industrial waste shall be considered industrial waste.
MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SYSTEM: All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PRIVATE WASTEWATER SERVICE LINE: The extension from the building drain to the service connection, including the point of connection, with the wastewater main or other place of disposal. The private wastewater service line is the responsibility of the owner.
PRIVATE WASTEWATER SYSTEM: A system for disposing of sanitary waste not connected to the Municipal wastewater system.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE: The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the Municipal wastewater system, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1/2") in any dimension.
SANITARY WASTEWATER SYSTEM: A wastewater system which carries wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SLUG: A discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STORM DRAIN: A pipe which carries storm and surface water and drainage, but excludes wastewater and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted water such as cooling water. A storm drain is sometimes termed storm sewer.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS (SS): Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of or is in suspension in water, wastewater, sewage or other liquids and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as "nonfilterable residue" and is reported in milligrams per liter (mg/L).
WASTEWATER: A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
WASTEWATER MAIN: The wastewater mainline and manholes in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
WASTEWATER SERVICE CONNECTION: The point at which the private wastewater service line connects to the wastewater main. The service connection point is the responsibility of the owner.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater.
WASTEWATER USER: Any individual, firm, company, association, society or corporation, or group who has connected to the Municipal wastewater system.
WATERCOURSE: A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 1237, 2018; Ord. 1217, 2017; Ord. 1189, 2015; Ord. 1188, 2015; Ord. 1094 §§ 1, 2, 2011; Ord. 1085 §§ 1 - 3, 2011; Ord. 988 § 2, 2007; Ord. 987 § 1, 2007; Ord. 956 § 1, 2006)